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Firmin Baes, "The Young Girl and the Cabbage (‘La petite fille au chou’)," ca. 1903, private collection, Antwerp. * A grasshopper design in Leavers lace.

Still from "Clotheslines," directed by Roberta Cantow, 1982. * Sawyer Made split-step stool, for Walker Street Market, photographed by Winnie Yang via The Secret Strategist. * "Ideal Hollow" by Nichola Manning, via drifting lament. * Shell buttons, via sl…

* Jacques Henri Lartigue, "Florette, Piozzo, Juillet 1959."

Let America be America again.

Fourth of July, 1954.

Notes from two weeks in Italy, March 2026: Venice: A shop crammed with velvet gondolier slippers, tiny glass snails and mushrooms and dachshunds (saw dachshunds everywhere).

Naively mistaking all aspects of this situation Lean in to tension I see it all, I pay attention A small dose of humiliation It keeps me humble, it keeps me waitin'

* Albert Marquet (1875-1947), "Flowering Tree," undated, via le jardin robo. * "Gertrude always loved her flowers 1937," from the Peter J.

Silver paper flower by Momoca.

We're setting sail To the place on the map from which no one has ever returned Drawn by the promise of the joker and the fool By the light of the crosses that burn Drawn by the promise of the women and the lace And the gold and the cotton and pearls It's…

* 1980s British Telecom Picturephone at wertwerk.kr, via Mildew. * Button seemingly referencing Gilbert and Sullivan lyrics in "The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze" from Act 2 of The Mikado: Ah, pray, make no mistake, we are not shy We're very wide awake, t…

Alison Knowles, "Score Direction for Bean Sequences."

* Maurice Denis, Avril ou Les anémones, 1891. * Glimpses into Plant Life by Eliza Brightwen, in the collection of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

* Detail of an American red moiré silk dress, ca. 1837.

* Cloud Appreciation Society: "A 22-degree halo spotted near Lake Crystal, Minnesota, U.S., by David, the brother of Sarah Richards (Member 5,763) ...

Thousands of masked, heavily armed agents, some with minimal training, have been unleashed on the streets of an American state.

Koyuko "A String of Beautiful Days" unravelling calendar. * Photo via Nico Muhly. * View of the sun at Enoura Observatory. * so this is the sound of you here and now whether or not anyone hears it this is where we have come with our age our knowledge such…

*Originally posted 12/26/2010 + 12/24/2017.

The train snakes through the icy mountains, its steady, churning roar breaking the quiet of snow-stilled space.

Clara Peeters, "Stilleben mit Façon-de-Venise-Glas, Römer und einer Kerze (Still life with dainties, rosemary, wine, jewels and a burning candle)," 1607. * Cecelia Glasher's sketches of snowflakes, ca. 1855. * A tree in winter, photographed by Dr.

The holiday season is careening toward culmination—candles lit, songs sung, gifts exchanged, a new calendar unwrapped—and as usual I don't feel ready.

The ultimate in reading stands, by Bruno Mathsson.