The End Of The Sons Of Feanor

Lilacs after rain

Photograph from June 2024

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

"Delay", Leonard Cohen

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

Edgar Allan Poe

art as a confession James Baldwin (The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman), Albert Camus (Notebooks, 1935-1942)

gotta give anaxagoras credit, the sun is indeed larger than the peloponnese

"A thunderstorm. Irises purple against the clouds."

~ Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary (13th May 1935)

'people have always been people' goes for simple human compassion & humor but only if it also means understanding that historical people have always been as complex and nuanced and innovative as they are now. their food and clothing and language and tools, particularly of ordinary people, however different than you're used to, should not be assumed to represent cultural inferiority or that those people had inferior tastes or intelligence or capacity for feeling than you do

Francois-Louis Schmied - The City Of Troy

— Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo

[text ID: but the sunflower is mine in a way.]