it's all meaningful, it's all meaningless—it's all beautiful

healing trove

Remember the words of Feynman: “what one fool can do, another can”.



Digital illustration by <n>Yumi Sakugawa</n>.

The "How To: Let Go" graphic by <n>We're Not Really Strangers</n>.

I Bring You the Honey  The residents close their doors. It is evening now.  I cook for you, with a little oil, with a little lemon, with fresh herbs. I give you both my hands, you give me a few strawberries, it is your favorite season, the light is thick, the neighbors are asleep, the dogs are licking their fur.  I give you a little milk, the meat must be well done. The apples must be well done, we find them very tender. They are full of the water, full of sugars and of red. We must stir our soups and our stomachs when they fall asleep.      The evening keeps our saliva in its little mouth, it sinks into our eyes, you don’t say much, it sinks into our cheeks, the evening, your eyes are fragile, they are black, they sink into the kitchen.  I put down a pot of honey, it is night on the table.

A 1959 portrait of author <n>Anaïs Nin</n>, photographed by <n>Ian Hugo</n>.

Why Some Feelings Refuse to Be Explained, a graphic by <n>Daniel Chechick</n> featuring <n>Ludwig Wittgenstein</n>.

The <n>Fat Deer Meme</n>. Photo by <n>The Welder Chick</n>.

Illustration by <n>Maurice Sendak</n> from <n>Ruth Krauss</n>'s 1960 book, <n>Open House for Butterflies</n>.

Poem <n>The plum you're going to eat next summer</n> by <n>Gayle Brandeis</n>, 2024.

<n>The Sweetest Little Song</n> by <n>Leonard Cohen</n>.

A post by <n>Virgil Abloh</n> on the Japanese concept of <n>Ikigai</n>, featuring a book on <n>Shiro Kuramata</n>.

The poem <n>Fear</n>, attributed to <n>Kahlil Gibran</n>.

Dissolving False Beliefs

To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing, red-hot iron; it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back on us. You cannot stay away from yourself forever. You have to return, have to come to that experiment, to know whether you really can love. That is the question - whether you can love yourself. And that will be the test.

Carl Jung

Table of contents from <n>my body, the buddhist</n>, a 2000 book by <n>Deborah Hay</n>.

<n>The Whole of It</n> by <n>Helen Meneilly</n>, published in the <n>Baltimore Review</n>, 2025.

The third chair

A scene from <n>Andrei Tarkovsky</n>'s 1962 film <n>Ivan's Childhood</n> with actors <n>Valentina Malyavina</n> and <n>Valentin Zubkov</n>.

Diagram from <n>Taking Part</n> (1974), edited by <n>Lawrence Halprin</n> and <n>Jim Burns</n> with <n>Anna Halprin</n>.

A still from the short film <n>Passing</n> by <n>Luigi De Pompeis</n>, starring <n>Sarah Jon</n> and <n>Michael Jon</n>.

PASSING | A NYC Short Film Shot on the Nikon ZR

A guide titled <n>How to Actually Feel Your Emotions</n> by author <n>Joe Hudson</n>.

<n>Surrender To What Is…</n> by artist <n>Alexis Rakun</n>.

if you say you're ambitious, but you don't have a body of work you can point at, you should STFU and build the body of work first. even if it's a bunch of notes and drafts and crappy prototypes or whatever. code your apps, write your plays and poems. I will die on this hill.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars. —Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World

Portrait of American artist <n>Georgia O'Keeffe</n>.