You’d Have To Stop The World Just To Stop The Feeling…

The sea knows: if it wanted to it could drown the world.

— ELMER DIKTONIUS ⚜️ Ice Around Our Lips: Finland-Swedish Poetry, transl. by David McDuff, (1989)

Tonight I've realized I have free will and can do whatever the hell I want, isn't that awesome?

Debbie Harry with her cat 'Sunday Man'

Photo by Bobby Grossman.

If you must leave, leave ruins in your wake. Leave nothing whole enough to be forgotten.

Edit after George Ellery Hale (Rijksmuseum) (Ed. Lic.: CC BY-NC 3.0)

Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO (1977) by Ruby Ray - A tangle of wires and knobs transforms the guitar into an experimental sound machine.

The legacies people leave behind in you.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

How terrifying, how excruciatingly painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I don’t know it. How beautiful.

Here comes the first drawing in 2025. "Blume" 🌹

I Listened to that Band in 500 BC

Dawn is such a private hour, don’t you think? Such a solitary hour. One always hears that said of midnight, but I think of midnight as remarkably companionable; everyone together, sleeping in the dark.

Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries