Expiration Dates
To the earth, millennia-old etchings might count as ephemera left behind by an ephemeral people, who were once thought to be extinct only to be reborn centuries later.
Ephemera: A Rock Collection
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from ‘Ephemera: A Rock Collection,’ by Michelle Santiago Cortés.
The life that emerges has not always been (it is coming to be) and will not always be. The experience of beauty is therefore a stab in the heart, and he is seized by the desire to hold on to everything that will not last: “Holding on to all the happiness, all the beauty, all the future that resides in everything.” Seized by this desire, he has the
... See moreMartin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Wabi-Sabi: This Japanese aesthetic concept embraces the beauty of imperfection and impermanence.
Today’s Pill #210: “Flowers are only flowers because they fall”
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I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.
Andre Aciman • Call Me By Your Name
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see; So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Andrew: The “this” being the poem itself, and by extension human culture, yes? Jamey: Yes. And the trouble with climate change is it says Fuck you! to all that. It says: you will no longer be able to exchange the cultural continuity of the human image for t
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
“Perspective has an expiration date, no matter how hard you try to hold on to it.”