January, 1933 The diary of Anaïs Nin [Volume One: 1931-1934]
[5/100] days of productivity
Made some notes about this article on the Romantic movement and Friedrich's paintings.
Such a nice read!
I'm really enjoying this new commonplace practice, and keeping you posted about it.
E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962
I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.
- Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There
I love how walking is used by authors back then as a metaphor for female agency. For example, Pride and Prejudice by Austen, North and South by Gaskell and Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence to name a few.
Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, dated 23 December 1881
Pages from the diary of Lady Ottoline Morrell (feat. Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot), from Garsington May 27 (1926)
[10/100] days of productivity
House chores and then just relax. A nice walk. Finally, a cozy mexican dinner with friends.
Current read + me wearing my bf shirts on repeat! 🔁 Men's shirts are my Roman empire.