play's the thing

shining like the sun

it is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race...now i realize that we all are. and if only everybody could realize this. but it cannot be explained. there is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun...if only they could all see themselves as they really are. if only we could see each other that way all the time.

thomas merton, conjectures of a guilty bystander 

liminal

august

school

Peter Heckwolf, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

last summer:

a rare and happy chance to see,

in weimar, 

the brilliant work

of professor heckwolf

it is impossible to 

explain the beauty

of these books

i wish you 

could have been there

here: more 

& more

trippen

trippen

what remains? the language remains.

Then too . . . my family home,

so to speak, was a bit different than usual.

There was so much that was special about it . . .

there were rules of conduct by which

I retained my dignity . . . and

I was protected,

absolutely protected,

at home.

-Hannah Arendt, A Conversation with Günther Gaus

tile:

golem , berlin;

katharina seidlitz

photos:

berlin + strasbourg,

vt

always one window or another

photos: vt

good

it's a pretty small world, folks. that's why we've got

to do the best we can. be good. it will return to you.

thx, s.

you made me remember this today.

this has to be

one of the most

elegant

souvenir shops

on the planet.

actually breathtaking.

more on this later.

i promise.

busy here.

(when was the last time

you heard elegant & souvenir

shop in the same breath?)

red letter

otti berger

otti berger:

herzen and

dress-up box

orignial photo: gertrud arndt

photo of photo: vt, dessau 2010

mnemonic

looking at the photo,

i can only tell you that

these two walls painted

these two colors had the

most unexpected shock

of loveliness and it is

very difficult to explain;

it created (on that hot

muggy day) the most

vibrant, alluring elegy

to these women of the

bauhaus. i wish you

could see it in person.

(there's no

forgetting)

sic transit

the more i think about it,

the more i am sure that

getting anywhere needs

to be more than half the fun

potsdam

potsdam,

new palace