He specialised in pretending to be reasonable until the whole thing collapsed under its own weight. We could use that now

The best literary distraction minute by minute - literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com

I stopped at that same sentence & picked up the book. Personally, I thought the photos bought their own energy. Reviews like this say a lot more about the reviewer…

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Pot with branch from dead plant in a windows sill. Next to it is another plant and a watering pot. Bellow, a sign is stuck on the wall reading - Artist: unknown. Dead plant, 2024. Glass, plastic, wood and misc. organic material. The precise placement of this piece among a collection of living plants allows the unknowns artist to remind the viewer of the inescapable cycle of life and death, as well as the capricious nature of the Ava rage house plant.

A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨

Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌

“In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin.” -McLuhan

Living The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. The wind blowing, the leaves shivering in the sun, each day the last day. A red salamander so cold and so easy to catch, dreamily moves his delicate feet and long tail. I hold my hand open for him to go. Each minute the last minute. DENISE LEVERTOV

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
– Kay Ryan

"The trick to walking on water, is knowing where the rocks are.”