Isabelle Huppert Par Dominique Issermann, 1980

Diane di Prima

he is the Moment

ratcliffe power station by michael kenna

you can kinda tell who in the fandom is American or at least not European based on if they literally can not compute the possibility of a loving but not romantic or sexual brief kiss on lips between dear friends like jeez y’all can be in your feelings fine but imo the moment successfully both expressed sincere care and sorrow in a fraught episode AND provided a distracting excuse to get very close it wasn’t meaningless to have a brush of lips instead of a hug and truly moved me, and I fully am not blind aka a fan of the tension between galadriel and sauron who is pulling for idk what but something changed and sexy between them soon

rest in peace

So,​ your life. There it is before you – possibly a road, a ribbon, a dotted line, a map – let’s say you’re 25, then you make some decisions, do things, have setbacks, have triumphs, become someone, a bus driver, a professor of Indo-European linguistics, a pirate, a cosmetologist, years pass, maybe in a family maybe not, maybe happy maybe not, then one day you wake up and you’re seventy. Looking ahead you see a black doorway. You begin to notice the black doorway is always there, at the edge, whether you look at it or not. Most moments contain it, most moments have a sort of sediment of black doorway at the bottom of the glass. You wonder if other people are seeing it too. You ask them. They say no. You ask why. No one can tell you.

A minute ago you were 25. Then you went ahead getting the life you want. One day you looked back from 25 to now and there it is, the doorway, black, waiting.

— anne carson, gloves on!

Thinking about all of Amy’s ballet slippers and how much her feet must have hurt all the time

Contemplation

Mototaki, Akita, Japon

Takeshi Shikama