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agree! amazing price

compare that to this true find, true story :
December 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
th weather [cold, snow] had me walking inside th nearest climate-controlled shop center

rewarded with this out in th parking

for @urbankisses.bsky.social @leabysea.bsky.social @collettwriter.bsky.social @jonbuscall.bsky.social + all who see
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"th 'race against time' to save music legends' decaying tapes

new problems are plaguing old reels, putting decades of history at risk. one man, armed with hair dryers + a love of tinkering, is leading the charge to rescue them..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
people + their personal projects *are* fascinating!

here's one i stumbled upon awhile back :

page of supplemental punctuation
by timothy dexter
[1747-1806]

"a pickle for th knowing ones" 
[1848]

publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...
November 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
"we know th meaning of nothing but th words we use to describe it."

-- anthony marra
["a constellation of vital phenomena"]
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
here it is.
here we are.

[photo taken yesterday, pre-snow]
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
[it's a hard (to put it mildly) time in th book]

"but what could she do? those who have th bullets also have th bandages."

-- anthony marra
["a constellation of vital phenomena"]
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"it's stupid. there are maps that show you how to get to th place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to th time when you want to be."

-- anthony marra
["a constellation of vital phenomena"]
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"for years he had relegated history to th past, where it was time-dulled + safe + ever receding, but history was right there, in that moment, on th television screen, where balding + bejowled politicians... [determined] th shape of th empire"

-- anthony marra
["a constellation of vital phenomena"]
November 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"truth was only one among many hallucinations."

-- anthony marra
["a constellation of vital phenomena"]
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"like most of his plans, this one seemed so robust in his mind but fell like a flightless bird when released to th air."

-- anthony marra
["a constellation of vital phenomena"
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
th hunker games

in th next 36 hours or so, we are predicted to receive up to 12 inches of snow

i can't overstate how much i hate winter

therefore, i am 100percent prepared to stay inside, hunker for as long as necessary ...though i often go a bit shack-wacky at times like this
November 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
may you always have people + things [both plural] to be thankful for

every day

i am thankful for y'all

i'm a bit early with this :
happy thanksgiving

+ every day

[photos by elliott erwitt 1988]
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
looking through my unread books [very plural], i chose this one :

#AConstellationOfVitalPhenomena
by anthony marra

"a story of th transcendent power of love during war time..."
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
finished "madonna in a fur coat" by sabahattin ali.

beautiful, sad, well-written, shorter in length ~165 pages.

i guessed th ending quite a bit early...
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"some things we never know we need until we find them."

-- sabahattin ali
["madonna in a fur coat"]
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"...i'll try to understand you."

-- sabahattin ali
["madonna in a fur coat"]
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"all th same i didn't resist. i had, after all, never learned how."

-- sabahattin ali
["madonna in a fur coat"]
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"rather than embark on th arduous task of getting to know each other, they preferred to wander about blindly, noticing each other's presence only when they happened to collide."

-- sabahattin ali
["madonna in a fur coat"]
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"in sum, he bore no resemblance to th sort of man who makes it his life's main business to let th whole world know that he understands french."

-- sabahattin ali
["madonna in a fur coat"]
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
[maira kalman]
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"childhood mysteries"
art by forestter cobalt
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"after 167 years in new york, a priceless coin collection heads to toledo

...doubloons, dollars + denarii ...will leave their overlooked home in manhattan for a more welcoming headquarters on th campus of th toledo museum of art..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"intent is everything, in cooking as in work or faith"
-- joan didion

"didion's thanksgiving : dinner for 75, reams of notes

th author’s newly unveiled papers reveal th meticulous planning + devotion to cooking that went into her big holiday meals..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/d...
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
"how to fix a typewriter
+ your life..."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM