Frida Kahlo, What The Water Gave Me, 1922

Today, I watched the short film for Explosions in the Sky’s ‘Postcard from 1952’ and I smiled. Directed by Annie Gunn and Peter Simonite (a cinematographer from Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life”), the visuals stunned me. Beautiful is not a fair word for the visuals and the marriage of the visuals and the music, but the story in the short film was beautiful.

Victor Hugo, A Castle in a Fantastic Landscape

The guy I was (am) talking to was (is) simultaneously talking to someone else (and maybe another someone else and another someone else). One day I’m happy, and one day I’m depressed because my life is so funny. I’m laughing on the inside because my life is so funny. Talking to someone else is not the problem, the problem is what the subject of the talking is. And now I feel like a fool for thinking maybe I was happy for a minute. I’m depressed and I wish I was sleeping in a black hole. And now I feel like a fool because I know aloneness is easy but I don’t always like being alone.

Maxfield Parrish, Ecstasy, 1929

Maxfield Parrish, Misty Morn, 1950