Every house has a ghost, and I will haunt you...

Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.

Cormorant fishing in Yangshuo near Guilin, Guangxi, China. Christian Vaisse

Fragment of a red-figure volute-krater with the departure of Amphiaraos, king of Argos, by the Darius Painter 

Greek (from South Italy), c. 330 B.C.

terracotta

One of the craziest things I’ve ever photographed! Maui, Hawaii

Russıan kokoshnik, Photographer Unidentified, c. 1910–15

Basque Burnt Cheesecake バスクチーズケーキ

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The World’s Oldest Love Poem: The Love Song for Shu-Sin

The literature of ancient Mesopotamia provided the first forms of world literature, the first expressions of human emotion and experience, and among them, the experience of romantic love and passion through the world’s oldest love poem. Prior to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world, and The Song of Songs from the Bible (also known as The Song of Solomon) the oldest love poem. However, dated to the 6th-3rd centuries BCE, it could no longer be considered the oldest love poem once The Love Song for Shu-Sin was discovered in the ruins of Nineveh.

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