“We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden.”
—Andrei Tarkovsky, who would have been 91 today.
2023
FIND COMFORT IN THE NIGHT SKY
RUN AND DANCE AND DO IT OFTEN
SUFFERING IS A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR DESIRE
HAPINESS IS INTERESTING
SANCTUARIES = NATURE + MUSIC + THE BODY
TRY AND FAIL AND FAIL AND FAIL AND LEARN
WRITE EVERY DAY
CONNECT TO URSELF THROUGH WARM MEALS
REGRESSION IS NEEDED TO BUILD NEW RITUALS
REMEMBER THE TREES PERSIST DESPITE EVERYTHING
“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“To find, once again, all that I love: blue sky, sunshine, untrammeled thought, dignity, serenity, nature, poetry, friendship.”
— Victor Hugo, from a letter to Angelo Brofferio written c. February 1852 (via un-dossier)
Greenhouse as a feature. in this Dutch garden, the greenhouse has been treated as a prime feature of the layout and partially screened by decorative planting. The surround to the wooden-framed house has been hard-surfaced.
The Garden Book, 1984