"I Wish I Had Done Everything On Earth With You."

— Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo

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

Pride & Prejudice, dir. Joe Wright

Lilacs after rain

Photograph from June 2024

Castle seen from forest by Mark Ferrari.

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

'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

We Lived Happily During the War, Ilya Kaminsky