it’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

Man as Ego: His 6 Bodies, ca. 1920s

What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.

“This photograph is my proof. There was that afternoon, when things were still good between us, and she embraced me, and we were so happy. It did happen. She did love me. Look for yourself.” This is my proof, Duane Michals, 1974

Roberto Ferri

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

We can only thank with our selves. Love transforms gratitude into loyalty to our selves and unconditional faith in the other. That is how love steadily intensifies its innermost secret.
Here, being close is a matter of being at the greatest distance from the other — distance that lets nothing blur — but instead puts the “thou” into the mere presence — transparent but incomprehensible — of a revelation.
The other’s presence suddenly breaks into our life — no soul can come to terms with that. A human fate gives itself over to another human fate, and the duty of pure love is to keep this giving as alive as it was on the first day.

Elliott Erwitt - The Acropolis Museum. Orthodox priest looking at statue. Athens. Greece, 1963.

Smoking gentleman using an acoustic coupler to send an email with a payphone. Early 1980s

D'Annunzioism was an important phenomenon of custom: the model of 'inimitable living' proposed by the writer among refined luxuries, precious sensations, erotic adventures and warlike enterprises, offered a fantastic escape from the frustrations of ordinary individuals, crushed by the nascent mass society.

Mountains In The Distance by Hoy Wei

No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.

- Edward L. Bernays

Farm labourers beneath the (since destroyed) 4th-5th century Great Buddha at Bamiyan, Afghanistan - 1992.