my father the painter

My dad has many random hobbies (such as White Gate Vineyards) & his latest undertaking is painting.  Above is a piece he made for me recently that I'm very proud to display.  Nautical art is one of my greatest loves so it's absolutely perfect.  Thanks dad.

& i'll ask for the sea

Afternoon of Tropical Storm Dan
Late Summer, 2009
Block Island

friday

Pigs are incredible.

(image via Cup of Jo)

Gisèle Freund

James Joyce in Paris in 1939

Virginia Woolf in London in 1939

Portraits by Gisèle Freund, a photographer who escaped Nazi Germany as a young woman.  I had never heard of her until the New York Times published this article--very interesting & surprising. 

tangled in heaps around you

image via M.H. Dunaway tumblr

Quincy

Meet Quincy, a 3-month-old kitten I am fostering.  He is a total lovebug, as most kittens are, so he's fabulous to have around my apartment. All love & energy :)

the heavy sleep of the perfectly loved

As far as the space between word and word, as the heavy sleep of the perfectly loved & the sirens of wars no one living can remember, as far as this room, where no words have been spoken, you are as far as invention, & I am as far as memory.
 - Susan Stewart 

(photo via la douleur exquise)

Atlas

via BiblioOdyssey

Williamsburg

 sunset over Manhattan on Saturday evening

friday

photo via Cup of Jo

look

images by 19-year-old photographer Stephen Beadles

via my modern met

andy

love him.

& kiss him back to strength, back to a boy

This is the first sonnet in Yusef Komunyakaa's amazing book of poems, WARHORSES, which changed my life in 2009.  He is truly one of the best.

friday

(image via The Senses Five)

when the leaves begin to fall

I AM LONGING FOR THE ROSES WHEN THE LEAVES BEGIN TO FALL

nico

my sleepy prince.

off-season

(image via KVELV)

beauties

More shelter dog photos from Susan Sabo that are so piercing & beautiful--I love the intimacy of the 3rd photo. Lovebugs.

lost & found, don't look down, & someone save temptation

(image via sound grammar)