Saturday, March 30, 2019

greatest still life


Francisco de Zurbarán, Baroque Gravitas

how to go bankrupt


“How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Klondike


"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- Jack London

on Vermeer



Part 1



Part 2



Part 3



Part 4

Thursday, March 28, 2019

go for it


“Since the danger of living in wretchedness is greater than the danger of dying soon, he is a fool who refuses to stake a little time and win a hazard of great gain.”
– Attributed to Seneca the Younger

vocab



"Schlimmbesserung": A German word which describes an effort to make things better that actually ends up making things worse.

Sunday, March 24, 2019

Thursday, March 21, 2019

super moon


“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Sunday, March 17, 2019

stone carving

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

progenitor


“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”
Jacob Burckhardt

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Happiest cities in America


Source: WalletHub

Monday, March 11, 2019

bohemian

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
Denis Diderot

Thursday, March 7, 2019

enlightenment groundwork


“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
Baruch Spinoza

Sunday, March 3, 2019

Inferno


"Here's the path out of Hell to Paradise."
- On Dante