I was feeling inspired today and briefly thought that while I’m doing just a minute of In a Lonely Place (where one frame per day will take me almost four years), what if I just went ahead and did the…

In the world as we currently understand it, only the men who fight to the very top are finally freed for true greatness. To them I’d like to reintroduce the men who love.⠀

There is only this moment, this 1/24th of a second, and the only rule is “Look”. 

Have I written about her nose, larger than expected? I just noticed it today, but there’s a faint memory of noticing it before. I still think it’s beautiful (and of course it is), but imagine how quick love would fade…

They lived at the same speed. They coincided in the Lonely Place, like the Gregorian and Hijri years in 20912. They both died at age 57. I have just turned 45.⠀

Look at the way their faces are made. Cheek-to-cheek, they would fit perfectly, Bogie’s jowl beneath Gloria’s high cheekbone. Which begs the question of whether it’s better to fit perfectly, or learn to accept the terrifying spaces in between.⠀

Bogart had a vertical scar on the right of his top lip, which is the place he notched his cigarette. The story is that when he was in the Navy, he was charged with transporting a prisoner. When changing trains,…

I was going to tell you about my feelings today, but tomorrow they’ll be different, and I must build on stronger foundations than that, so I’ll build on this 1/24th of a second, then the next 1/24th of a second,…

“Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.” – Marguerite Yourcenar