On Books and Tea

Lauren. I have done some stuff and lived in some places. I have an expensive piece of paper gathering dust under her bed. I read a lot.

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mistkirill on ig

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Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. II: 1934-1939

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“Every star may be a sun to someone.”

— Carl Sagan

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Westminster Cathedral. London, UK.

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Artemis Ⅱ Eclipse: a total solar eclipse captured by Artemis Ⅱ from behind the moon ©

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The dreamer (1840) by Caspar David Friedrich

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D. H. Lawrence, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

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Gothic dreams & the smell of old books 🖤📖

John Rylands Library, Manchester

My photography, 29 XI 2025

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Tantallon Castle. North Berwick, Scotland

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I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it? Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better? Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows can do it and I am, well, hopeless. Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it, am I going to get rheumatism, lockjaw, dementia? Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.

Mary Oliver, “I worried”

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An Interview with Richard Siken

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Tantallon Castle. North Berwick, Scotland

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Norman Parkinson - Ingrid Boulting Wearing a Dress from Suliman (Vogue UK 1970)