• There’s an old voice in my head that’s holding me back. Well, tell her that I miss our little talks

• What was, simply was what it was, it had to be that way

• Melancholia and creativity

• Why do we want what we want?

• The inevitability and irreversibility of loss

• The wreck and not the story of the wreck, the thing itself and not the myth

• One has only learnt to get the better of words for the things one no longer has to say

• Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take

• Gillian Rose on the satisfaction of writing and the joyful agony of loving

• Current mood in AI generated images #90

• On seeing ourselves through others: L. S. Lowry’s Head of a Man (With Red Eyes)

• 🦆❤️ Ciallan’s memorial duck

• Nature’s aim for everything includes its cessation

• 🐈‍⬛ On the coming loss of a companion animal

• Nick Cave on the terrible devastating opportunities that bring transformation

• Nick Cave on suffering, loss and renewal

• What have we lost in the accelerated academy?