Vita Sackville-West To Virginia Woolf

"I wish I had done everything on earth with you."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

-Painting by Ron Hicks

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Lytton Strachey, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Do you ever think about how many of the items now considered priceless artifacts were once commonplace items? The coins we now marvel at from behind the glass at a museum were once tossed around, stepped on, and traded around. The pottery painstakingly pieced back together was somebody’s favorite wine jug. The decorative pin now rusted and bent once held together the shoulder of someone’s chiton. History is simply a trail of ordinary people going about their day, and I think there’s an odd sort of beauty in that.

We Lived Happily During the War, Ilya Kaminsky

Francois-Louis Schmied - The City Of Troy

Castle seen from forest by Mark Ferrari.

Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

The End of the Sons of Feanor

“I’m so normal about them”

I wasn’t in fact so normal about them, I scoured the internet for crumbs.