(paraphrased) thought from Azar Nafisi’s novel Reading Lolita in Tehran: We do not miss people or places; we miss the way we were at particular moments, with certain people or in certain places, because we will never be that way again. Also from here.
On Keeping a Notebook
From Joan Didion’s essay “On Keeping a Notebook”: “We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4am of a bad night and demand to [...]
Giglio, Italy
In February I traveled to the Italian island of Giglio to photograph the downed cruise ship, Costa Concordia.
