I watched a man film his daughter's first steps and he watched it through the screen. she walked toward him and he was not there he was in the rectangle and she reached for a ghost. that is the whole thing now. we are building a perfect archive of a life no one attended
I do not trust anyone who has not looked at their deepest belief and felt it turn to sand in their hands and kept going anyway into the cold with nothing
One of my all time favourite photos. Gilbert Kerr, the official piper of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904), playing his bagpipes to an emperor penguin while the ship was trapped in ice.
this year has been perhaps the most exhausting and draining year i’ve ever experienced and i wish i had the strength to pull something positive out of myself for the new year but all i can think of is how badly i cannot do this again
She wrote a beautiful essay about facing cancer for the New Yorker that also condemns RFK Jr. for destroying the same healthcare system that she was relying on.
Reading fiction absolutely does reveal important truths about the world. For instance, it allows you to know that you are a better person than someone who does not read fiction