Charlie Isoe, Berliner Hunde, 2009

The deepest, deadliest and most common of all sins: Continuation of the fight against the defeated enemy; fight against the enemy of yesterday, which no longer exists, in order not to have to face the true and present enemy of today.

- Carl Schmitt

Bill Schwab, Late February Thaw, Bell Isle, Detroit, Michigan, 1997

Jessica Stam

A picture is worth a thousand words,
but not all of them are happy.
To see unhappy is to think unhappy
leading to a day of stress.

A stressful day
jumbles your mind
twists your stomach
and clenches your hands.
A stressful day
is how to create
a thousand problems.

There is no better way that i can think of
to dump of all the stress
than to rid of the problem
with a cigarette.

As it pulls from your lips
and slips from your fingers
and falls to the ground,
take a deep breath,
in and out,
to release the stress
and your problems.

Look at the stub
small, white, and burnt,
laying at your toes.

Now smile and
relax your hands.
A thousand words
and a thousand problems
have now been left
as a conflict to deal with
for the cigarette.

Hannah - A cigarette for thousand problems

Portrait of a nihilist student by Ilya Repin

Nordic House (1965-68) in Reykjavik, Iceland, by Alvar Aalto

Still Life with Lighted Candle (detail). By Pieter Claesz, 1627

Green Ink, Cover for Vangelis’ Invisible Connections, 1985

Living for today 1972
Architect: Michael Hollander

But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until — later of sooner — perhaps — no, not perhaps — quite certainly: it will come.