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  • London's East End in the Last Century
    From the wonderful Spitalfields Life: "In the seventies, while living in Mile End Place ... photographer Philip Cunningham took these tender portraits of his friends and colleagues."


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  • sunny colorful
    a sunny interior of a house with bright blue and orange fabric on furniture

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  • Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry
    - Howard Nemerov
    Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
That while you watched turned to pieces of snow
Riding a gradient invisible
From silver aslant to random, white, and slow.

There came a moment that you couldn’t tell.
And then they clearly flew instead of fell.
  • Whatever Happens This Year /
    I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace.
    In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
  • At the coffee shop
    turquoise-colored chest with decorative wood work and plants on top 📷
  • Third Places
    American suburbs provide an excess of privacy, but deny proximity to those places upon which a community life depends.

    Ray Oldenberg, The Great Good Place

  • For 2024

    Ten days in, my theme for 2024 is: “Be attentive”:

    • Pay attention to what I pay attention to, and jettison stuff that doesn’t pay back with value.
    • Improve focus on stuff that is valuable. (Takes practice!)
    • Be attentive and responsive (or least present) to others.

    (NB: They all take practice.)

  • from Symmetries & Asymmetries - W.H. Auden
    Could any tiger
Drink martinis, smoke cigars,
And last as we do?
  • a friend
    A Panama hat resting on a plastic facsimile of an armadillo skeleton
  • Ventura County, CA
    A partly shaded unpaved hiking trail in Ventura County, California, USA
  • Loo Art
    stenciled skeletons painted on a restroom wall stenciled cowboys on horseback in silouhette painted on a restroom wall
    Lee Harvey's, Dallas. Tx
  • Well, yeah, I am. Thanks, mate.

    Ange Postecoglou: “I’ve loved my first six months as head coach of this fantastic football club. We are still very much in the early stages of our journey. We have been moving in the right direction in terms of the squad, style of play, results. Hopefully, you are enjoying the team we are becoming.” ⚽️

  • from The Other Side of the Alde | Reynolds Stone, Wood Engraver
    Wood engraving of wooden boat on a rocky beach
  • Year-end lists
    Without a doubt, my 2023 personal Word of the Year is "Ange Postecoglou".
    (Two words, but you get it.) Coming in at #2 is "mate."
    Come On You Spurs! ⚽
  • Pitiable, foolish, and cruel, all at once

    Louis Menand: “[Sontag] forbade her son to look out the window when they rode in a train; he needed to read about a place if he wanted to understand it. She never looked out the window herself.”

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