Mary Oliver, From “The Summer Day.”

Mahmoud Darwish, from “The Butterfly’s Burden; ‘We Walk On The Bridge’”, tr. Fady Joudah.

writing is so fun

February - Brendon Burton

I feel like this at all times

• Dress.

Date: ca. 1815

Place of origin: England

Medium: Cotton, wool

yippee! is a gateway drug. to other substances such as. wahoo! and yay!

Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: Perhaps you’ll escape. Day and night, this obsession. It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

Era Leisner (born in 1988). Norway

Silver Hounds (2024) L

Acrylics and silver leaf on canvas

100 × 100 cm, 39 × 39 in approx

Josef Koudelka, France, 1970s

Children, like adults, were caught up in war fever after hostilities broke out in August 1914. Many wanted to join the Army, including nine-year-old Alfie Knight from Dublin. Alfie wrote this letter to Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener, volunteering as a front-line despatch rider. In a reply sent by his private secretary, Lord Kitchener thanked Alfie for his offer, but explained that he was 'not yet quite old enough to go to the front'.