LOVE LOSES

across the great divide

Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.

blue hour on I-65

But Sam Neill was more than just Dr. Grant. And I think that should be remembered too.

Billie Holiday with her dog Mister, photographed shot by Carl Van Vechten, 1949

Unknown Jar with registers of plant ornament and animals Ptolemaic Period 100–30 B.C. Egypt, Middle Egypt, Tuna el-Gebel Faience H. 14 cm (5 1/2 in.); Dia. 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in.) The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert