K. W. Holland

Heavy rain all day today so I search my photos for “park” and up comes this from…13 years ago, wow. Day 7 #mbmay 📷

A great day with friends six years ago. Silhouette (Day 6) #mbmay

It’s growing season for bamboo on our little patch of earth (Day 5) which requires constant vigilance. #mbmay

Brings thorny (Day 4) to mind. #mbmay

I made a slightly experimental plant-based Bolognese. #mbmay

A photo of our beloved, much-missed dog Campbell in his favorite pose. #mbmay

“0ne’s life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read…” - Graham Greene 💬 📚

I doubt if I will be able to keep this up all month, but here’s Day 1, switch. #mbmay

Nap time.🐕

Narcissism is not the same thing as introspection.

💬 “Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza; it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times.” – Graham Greene

Our all-too-brief burst of color is underway.

Currently reading: Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene 📚

Currently reading: What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe 📚

Marcella Hazan’s white bean soup with parsley and garlic …. If there’s a better soup, I don’t know what it is.

“I take the thing I’m disgusted with, imagine the opposite, and push that out into the world.” - Austin Kleon 💬 📝

Reading: The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy. Lately I’ve started finally reading a lot of books/authors I’ve been meaning to read for decades. 📚

“Nobody has any zeal about arithmetic. It is not the vaccinationists but the antivaccinationists who generate zeal. People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.” – Bertrand Russell

We finally watched The Meyerowitz Stories this evening and, as has happened with every Noah Baumbach film I’ve seen, I’m left wondering why I waited so long to experience it. 🍿

“There is little unfairness in a colony of ants, but there is also little freedom.” – Madeleine L’Engle

We are halfway through the final season of The Man in the High Castle and there is much about it that I find disturbing, particularly in the fifth episode, which we watched last night. (Disturbing does not mean bad; it just means … disturbing.) 📺

I heard myself describe something as “more art than science” and realized I was doing both of those things a disservice.

“I’ve caught belief like a disease. I’ve fallen into belief like I fell in love.” - Greene, TEOTA 📚

Currently reading The End of the Affair and kind of stunned (and more than a little embarrassed) that it took me 50 years to start reading Graham Greene. 📚

The walls above Girona.