I bet the afterlife is like the backside of embroidery.

LEAR: Who is it that can tell me who I am? FOOL: Lear's shadow.

FROM THE FAR SIDE FILES Gary Larson 1985

Today at Segue in person and zoom.

Alberto Giacometti and Samuel Beckett in Giacometti's studio, c. 1961 [photo by George Pierre]

“Perhaps no artist has taken on the challenge of representing this still-nascent century [in China] as directly as the filmmaker Jia Zhangke.” nybooks.com/online/2025/05…

From Benjamin's diaries, 1934: 25 August. A Brechtian maxim: "Don’t start from the good old things but the bad new ones."

A group of ducks witnessed the meteor that fell in Portugal in 2024

John Cazale

The last glass of milk has not yet been drunk. Franz Kafka, 1921.

depiction of guru rinpoche's attainment of the rainbow body

Harrisburg Daily Independent. Pennsylvania, June 17, 1909

We shall have everything we want and there’ll be no more dying

Uncritical love & support for Gaza's telecom crews, who operated under extremely dangerous condition to repair Gaza's internet lines, risking their to keep their people connected to the world.

Alice Notley

Washed carpets laid out to dry in a mountain. Iran, 1972 Thomas Abercrombie

This is the plot of Edward Dahlberg's Because I Was Flesh

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

Poets are valuable assets & capitals of country. Poetry must be lively, timely & should take position in main issues & needs of country.