Views from Suomenlinna at summer

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” ― Oscar Wilde

Joseph-Désiré Court

As we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic

It is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

“we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”