Connections

Actor <n>Nikolay Burlyaev</n> in a scene from <n>Andrei Tarkovsky</n>'s 1962 film <n>Ivan's Childhood</n>.

\[...\] Maybe that's the torture that is implicit to romantic love. You get closer and closer but the expectation of oneness is always confused for the sensation of touch.

The <n>Ushiro no Mizume-zakura</n> cherry tree in Shimada, Japan. Photo by <n>keikifuse</n>.

The World's Oldest Man Zaro Agha (1774-1934), a Kurd from Bitlis, on the Streets of Paris in 1921.

<n>Shadows</n> (2023), an oil on canvas painting by <n>Jess Allen</n>.

So I went on a date with a man who’s deaf with little to no knowledge of ASL. This was the most romantic date I’ve been on in my life.