Dean Cornwell

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure some of them are dirt.

— John Muir

Italian Navy, destroyer Luigi Durand de la Penne and tall ship Amerigo Vespucci.

Uma Thurman, c. 1990

“What man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases and stops showing what he can do. Talent is finery, and finery is a hiding place.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §130 (edited).

“Summer with Monika” dir. Ingmar Bergman (1953) screening on a side of a barn in Iowa, USA.

Osiris attends to a soul leaving the body of the deceased. 

Who returns us to ourselves, when we most struggle to gain distance?

Võ Thi Thang smiling after being sentenced to 20 years hard labour in a prison camp by the South Vietnamese govt. After being sentenced she reportedly smiled at the judge and said "20 years? Your government won't last that long." - 1968