Lemongrass Library

By the light of the moon. 🌕 postcard from my collection, mailed 1909.

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”  ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.” ― John Green

excerpt from 'The Forgotten Corners', by Jeff Foster

(Ayia Napa, Cyprus)

The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali—A powerful story about friendship that spans many decades and encompasses societal upheaval and the repression of human rights, _The Lion Women of Tehran_ is a book that shows the strength of women and the importance of freedom. The pacing of this book was a little slow at first, matching the role of time in the protagonists’ childhoods—and in childhood, in general—and ramps up quickly with the transition to adulthood. Beautiful historical fiction. 4.5🌟

photo -jk

A whispered dream lingers on

your ears, if only for a moment.

oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm.

Photo by Silas House

A return to the sea. To decompress. Mother Ocean. Take a dog. He knows how to live in the moment. It's winter. New Zealand. Walking with dog and camera, playing it by feeling. Later - Night and falling asleep to the sound of winter waves rolling, roaring in. The next day, replacing the dog with a backpack and a camera that requires attention. More walking. The storm is easing. I think I might be happier now. The camera that requires attention helps me live in the moment, until the moment I'm caught by the incoming tide and inundated. I hear laughter. I turn back to the shore. There's a woman in the dunes with a dog. She's laughing. I hear other laughter too. It is my own. Castlepoint, New Zealand 2026 (Cyanotype, Words & Film Image - One Kindred Spirit)