RETURN TO CRANFORD William Buxton

["and longingly I long…"] Sappho, tr. Dan Beachy-Quick

Do you ever think about how many of the items now considered priceless artifacts were once commonplace items? The coins we now marvel at from behind the glass at a museum were once tossed around, stepped on, and traded around. The pottery painstakingly pieced back together was somebody’s favorite wine jug. The decorative pin now rusted and bent once held together the shoulder of someone’s chiton. History is simply a trail of ordinary people going about their day, and I think there’s an odd sort of beauty in that.

Pride & Prejudice, dir. Joe Wright

art as a confession James Baldwin (The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman), Albert Camus (Notebooks, 1935-1942)

For someone who is tired 100% of the time, I sure am bad at sleeping.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Lytton Strachey, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

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

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