Portraits famous photographers have taken of their partners (a thread):

“What is a masterpiece? In “The Milkmaid,” liquid becomes life in a transubstantiation to rival water becoming wine; the genre scene sets down its earthly moralism, and the working woman touches the divine.” nytimes.com/2023/02/09/art…

“The world is evil only when you become its slave,” Henri Nouwen saw. “The world has a lot to offer so long as you don’t feel bound to obey it.”

Test Your Focus: Can You Spend 10 Minutes With One Painting? nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Today's taste of joy :)

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time * August 2, 1924

For “a bowl of strawberries to be beautiful, you need to want to eat it, or you need to be disgusted by it,” she said. In other words, beauty must elicit a bodily response. nytimes.com/2024/08/16/t-m…

Best ad ever. ❤️

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"...Late at night, I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-nine today. I saved the rest for you... When she doesn’t respond, I know she’s used up all her words, so I slowly whisper I love you thirty-two and a third times..." poetryfoundation.org/poems/49238/th…

Real hockey in a rink 1/10th the size. #InstallationArt as metaphor for ... ? “The Obstruction of Action by the Existence of Form” vimeo.com/140441135

canada must feel like they are living above a meth lab

So grateful to have grown up in the nineties reading real books, often borrowed from a library! No cell phones, no internet. Hours and hours for learning and imagination. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Moth-Style Storytelling and Creative Nonfiction: Driving Directions and Polaroids brevity.wordpress.com/2024/09/09/mot… via Dinty W. Moore

Kelli Anderson's Alphabet in Motion, a pop-up book that explains how typography works. Beautiful! Pre-ordered on Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/kelli…

My mom put up her Christmas tree and decorations this past weekend. I think it’s an anxiety response to next week ❤️.