February 2, 1933 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)
'Autumn Evening with Rider'. Franz von Stuck. 1893.
A Summer's Tale (1996) dir. Éric Rohmer
George Seferis, Mythistorema (Trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)
Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.
-James Baldwin
When you are unemployed, mysterious voices will tell you to "become a youtuber" but you must remind yourself that it's probably the amulet talking. The amulet you found last week, near the park. It has given you good advice so far, but there is always a line that you shouldn't cross.
One day I washed up on the shore and now I'm making it everyone's problem