a day in the life

nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key

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Vincent Van Gogh; detail of The Rocks.

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“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.” - Ali Smith, Winter

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Works by octonimoes

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Joan Baez and James Baldwin Attend Selma to Montgomery civil rights march, 1965. Credit: Steve Schapiro

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"Drenched," by Dr. Refaat Alareer. He was murdered 7 December in Gaza by Israeli forces. Rest in power.

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Plestia, Motaz, Wael, Saleh, Hind and Bisan by Peonica Fernando

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getting into bed on a December night by Ellen Bass

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-Six Sunflowers-

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Piet Mondrian, Windmill in Twilight, c. 1907-1908

Piet Mondrian, Large Landscape, c. 1907-1908

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Song of the Day

25 Feb., ‘23

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Hallowe'en, Raphael Tuck and Sons, 1908

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Palestinian Mohamad Abu Thabet collects anemone coronaria flowers with his children in a field in the West Bank village of Beit Dajan, near Nablus, April 5, 2016. Abed Omar Qusini

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Fall by Mary Oliver, October 1994.

[Text ID: The black oaks fling their bronze fruit into all the pockets of the earth pock pock, / they knock against the thresholds the roof the sidewalk fill the eaves the bottom line, / of the old gold song of the almost finished year what is spring all that tender green stuff, / compared to this falling of tiny oak trees then the clouds, / gathering thick along the west then advancing then closing over breaking open, / the silence then the rain dashing its silver seeds against the house. /End ID.]

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Happy 48th, Zadie Smith.

Illustration by Krishna Shenoi.