we tell ourselves stories in order to live

from the introduction to emily wilsons translation of the iliad

From Junk Drawers to Phone Books, Artist Bernie Kaminski Captures the Nostalgia of Banal Items Through Papier-Mâché

I was going through my mom’s stamp collection and automatically started organizing them in categories.  Here’s nature: flowers & animals.

yoshitomo nara “walk on” flip clock (2001)

Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

me and who

Unknown,  Garden fresco, Pompeii, House of the Golden Bracelet, 25–50 A.D., Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, © Fotografica Foglia (Naples).

Goodbyes are inevitable | discarded library book acquired from Michael Dumontier @stoppingoffplace

1964

happy new year! 🎊

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

a mary oliver quote that peeled me like a fruit

the social network (dir. david fincher) // pride & prejudice (dir. joe wright)