Dear Anne, Since We Are Parting Ways, Perhaps Forever, I Feel I Must Unburden My Heart. You Are The Fond

“What I told you about saving people isn’t true. You might think it is, because you might want someone else to save you, or you might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save you, not really. Not from yourself. You fall asleep in the foothills, and the wolf comes down from the mountains. And you hope someone will wake you up. Or chase it off. Or shoot it dead. But when you realize that the wolf is inside you, that’s when you know. You can’t run from it. And no one who loves you can kill the wolf, because it’s part of you. They see your face on it. And they won’t fire the shot.” - Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“Anybody wanna waste some time?”

Roses, c. 1890. Abbott Handerson Thayer

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Why do you find that so hard to believe? You saw what happened here.

Loving Vincent (2017) Directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman

Bjork

Humanity did not prove that the sun is, in fact, a star until 1838.

Launch and Landing : A composite of three consecutive exposures, this night skyscape follows the January 7 launch and first stage landing of a Falcon 9 rocket from a beach on planet Earth’s space coast. With the launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the bright streak beginning farthest left traces the initial phase of the rocket’s flight. A visible upward hook marks the first stage beginning its return trajectory with a “boostback burn” near the top of the arc, while the second stage separates and continues toward orbit. Above the top of the launch arc due to perspective, a bright streak shows the returning first stage slowing and descending toward the Cape. Centered below, the streak at the horizon is a 17 second burn finally slowing the first stage to a successful vertical landing about 8 minutes after launch at Landing Zone 1. During the scene’s effective long exposure time, the background stars leave short trails in the night sky of the rotating planet. via NASA

》 Anne with an E ⇢ 2.08 “Struggling Against the Perception of Facts”

“I take you, matched to my intellect, proponent of my happiness, friend of my heart to be my lifemate. Let us dance together as equal partners through the years.”