Life-affirming inspiration from a man who knew intimately “that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea thread-bare and turn it to the bitterness of death.”
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You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon fade, knowing that the loving face too will one day fade to indifference or bone, and you love
"The body’s judgment is as good as the mind’s... We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking."
“Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.”
What children can teach us about art and making, "Benito Bowl" memes, a NYC guide to an offbeat Valentine's Day, and the aesthetics of liminality.
If what you want is to see tiny people all over your plate, you 100% absolutely have to try Lanmaoa asiatica. The mushroom is a popular food during mushroom season, but if undercooked has the same effect worldwide: lilliputian hallucinations .
From butterflies to Beethoven, an ode to the heart's uncontainable dimensions.
A rare manuscript illustration casts Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.
