Currently Reading: Aimless Love by Billy Collins 📚

I think this is my favorite piece of cover art for a book. Also one of the most fitting


August (s)newsletter!


Panorama atop Storm Castle


Well, it appears we have a standoff (Jack won; the gopher got bored after 3 minutes and moved on)


A very orange sunset • A shot Meghan took in September 2020, off the Western Promenade in Portland, Maine (unfiltered, unedited)


Precious — by every definition


Swimmy dog • A lot of buildup to the this moment


It can be difficult to interpret canine facial expressions, but me thinks Jack was not looking forward to the mile-long tunnel


Abstract Ort 🤓


Seamus Heaney:

[W]hatever the possibilities of achieving political harmony at an institutional level, I wanted to affirm that within our individual selves we can reconcile two orders of knowledge which we might call the practical and the poetic; to affirm also that each form of knowledge redresses the other and that the frontier between them is there for the crossing.

Put an image to that — the mental frontier as, say, a rocky mountain pass or meadow — and tell me it doesn’t meliorate a harsh, divided, unforgiving thought-life.