March ending, a list: Here, in town, I have decided that our Post Office is something of a Schrödinger situation, because you can go to the Post Office, or you can not go to the Post Office, but you cannot know whether it will be open or closed until you actually get there i.e. it might be open until the exact moment you leave the house with a parcel, whereupon it will immediately be closed, or, it will be open every time you walk past
"If you are in the habit of brushing your teeth alongside another person, morning, or night, or both, remember once in a while to gaze tenderly at them while you engage in this most ordinary and odd and ongoing of tasks." Thank you for this reminder, Ella and for your beautiful lists always.
This is such a lovely coincidence! And, the day previously, I was at a framer myself—it is the season of catching up on things-needing-frames, it seems.
"Again, and again, wondering how it is possible for us to live on a planet where a genocide has been happening almost entirely unchecked for 174 days." - I don't know how to be. I don't know how to keep living surrounded by casual racism, obliviousness and privilege. I don't know how to bear the heartbreak of what's happening. This is insanity.
"If you are in the habit of brushing your teeth alongside another person, morning, or night, or both, remember once in a while to gaze tenderly at them while you engage in this most ordinary and odd and ongoing of tasks." Thank you for this reminder, Ella and for your beautiful lists always.
Thank you for this note Autumn, I'm so glad so glad you enjoy the lists for the endings.
“We are at the last edges of this low, blue, wintery light, and I won’t miss it but I also will.” 💙💙💙
All of this was so beautiful, Ella, and thank you especially for introducing me to Jeremy Miranda — what a gift for capturing light ✨
So happy to have introduced you to this light—you must be, like me, a very light-noticing-person.
Love Jeremy’s work - your post has reminded me I have a print of his to frame and commit to a wall. Thank you for your words.
This is such a lovely coincidence! And, the day previously, I was at a framer myself—it is the season of catching up on things-needing-frames, it seems.
Beautiful thank you
Thank you Heather, much appreciate your note.
I loved the light in the Jeremy Miranda paintings too! Thank you...
It is the kind of light to think about, for a long time!
"Again, and again, wondering how it is possible for us to live on a planet where a genocide has been happening almost entirely unchecked for 174 days." - I don't know how to be. I don't know how to keep living surrounded by casual racism, obliviousness and privilege. I don't know how to bear the heartbreak of what's happening. This is insanity.
I feel all your sentiments so much Eugénie, and am sending you gentlest thoughts.