Now is a good time to tell you what I know about death: Nothing goes away but becomes something else. The story goes: God watched the son go down. Or, God was the son going down. Or God was gravity. Or God spoke in the voice of the people so to bring that man down--he went and became a lamb cut open. He went and became August sun. He went and became. He went and became. My brother sat up. A holy future passed us by and surrounds me now. Brother, we're going down. Brother, get up.
Lily Greenberg, from "Good Friday"
Greenock by John Atkinson Grimshaw
Ballerina (2023) / 발레리나 | Jeon Jong-seo as Jang Ok-ju
I was going to just use one, but he's too beautiful to pick.
"But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized by our social and cultural world. They are the oppressed, exploited proletariat, robbed of the fruit of their labor and despoiled of their humanity. Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different kind of social order."
Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of liberation theology, passed away 22 October 2024 at the age of 96.
DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)
Orchard at Louveciennes the English Pear Tree (1875) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
Viktor Frankl
James Dean in EAST OF EDEN (1955) dir. Elia Kazan
Friedrich Von Amerling - Lost in Her Dreams, (1835)
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant