Dusty Peony Petals

Two women napping on an 11th St. fire escape to catch a cool breeze on Aug. 30, 1948.

Gewürze

From February 18 to 19, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

Marilyn Monroe, 1958.

Charles van den Eycken (1859-1923) "The Little Writer" (1913) Oil on panel

Tibor Honty, Untitled, 1950s

That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, 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.

19th century leather bound books with marbled pages edges

Gerolamo Induno - Sad presentiment, 1862

Ohhhh I sooo need this!!!!!!

The Lighthouse (2019) Directed by Robert Eggers