we're all stories, in the end.

[ID: Date — 18 June 1926. Text — My sweet, my dear one, have you found a refuge? END ID]

George Nakashima House

𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟾, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

Jean Hersey, from "The Shape of a Year," originally published in March 1967

March 13, 1957 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters (writing to her husband, Alfred Sexton) First published: 1977

Schuyler Peck, Worth the Wait

Claude de Burine, tr. Gloria Still, from Serving Blood: New Poems by French Women; “The Medium”

slope point, the southernmost tip on new zealand’s south island, is hit with such persistently violent southern antarctic winds that trees grow in the leeward direction. (click pic or link for credit x, x, x, x, x, x)

'Bottle Brush Trees'. Jian Chong Min. Watercolor. c. 1990.

Sylvia Plath (Leon Dabo), Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Naguib Mahfouz (Edgar Degas), E. E. Cummings (Édouard Manet), Rabindranath Tagore, T. S. Eliot (Edgar Degas), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Alphonse Osbert)

T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets; from 'East Coker'

Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice, July 3, 1913

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

James Joyce, from a letter to Nora Barnacle Joyce, featured in The Selected Letters of James Joyce

Izzy Ravas, from her novel titled Disarm: A Forbidden Romance (What We Don't Say,)