nice~

mournfulroses:
Kōtarō Takamura, tr. by Hiroaki Sato, from Chieko & Other Poems; “Two Under the Tree,”

resqectable:
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959

aiweirdness:
sixmonthsandgone:
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018), dir. Arwen Curry
The next line of her speech is also great: “Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”

mybeingthere:
Didier William Dancing, Pouring, Crackling and Mourning, 2015 acrylic, wood carving and collage on panel 60 × 48 in. | 152.4 × 121.92 cm.
Didier William is a painter from Haiti inspired by artists like the Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón, Helen Frankenthaler, Jacob Lawrence, and Robert Colescott. William employs a mix of painting and printmaking, and each piece takes months to complete. He carves directly into birch panels, which are then layered with patterned prints, ink, and acrylic. “Beauty can still be radical,” he says.

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