On happiness and sadness, an excerpt by Bernhard Schlink.

"Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were ( Read more... )

I need a new art home.
deviantART vs. Flickr?

Current art home.

LIFE: Desire and decision.

(As paraphrased from Nabokov.)

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever... for knowledge, experience and creation."

Oh, and in other news...

www.platformsmagazine.com
January issue,
I'm in it: Carissa.

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Desiderata.Go placidly amid the noise and the haste ( Read more... )