Notes from a night train
Fetching the pageDust in the Light
Hammershøi painted the same few rooms for twenty years. What he was painting was attention.
3 minThe Long Table
A table built to outlast the people who sit at it, and what that asks of a Tuesday dinner.
3 minRain, Steam and the Speed of Reading
Turner painted a train moving so fast it dissolved into the weather. Most of what we read now arrives the same way.
4 minWhat the Tide Pool Knows
A tide pool is a six-hour experiment that has been running for longer than anyone has been watching it.
2 minThe cost of asking
Could not read itWeekend reading: forty links on nothing in particular
A linkdump, lightly curated, mostly about boats and soil.
Listing
Seven links, about 12 minutes of reading.