sorry i never responded to your text, i've been busy being paralyzed by my own inability to do basic tasks that are piling up.

free museum trips are wasted on unappreciative middle schoolers. let me go

Art Nouveau pearl, gold and enamel ring, by René Lalique centering a button-shaped pearl, between leaves applied with green enamel, ca. 1900.

I can’t wait for this AI bubble to burst

I’m pretty sure my kink is you

Common Raven Corvus corax

1/21/2024 Orange County, California

Marcel Proust, from a poem featured in The Collected Poems; A Dual Language Edition

by  Hey Paul Studios

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

i love people you can just sit with. you do your thing, i’ll do mine. lets just exist alongside one another, in a silence that says “im glad you’re here.”

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

As the year is ending soon... this is your friendly reminder that you didn’t waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort, any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of. 🤎

Folk Artist Clementine Hunter, Louisiana

possibly 1950s

— Frode Grytten, The Ferryman and His Wife. Translated to English by Alison McCullough. (Algonquin Books, November 18, 2025)

𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟿, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟿 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹