25th January 2026

The Present

to have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive, and it is not denied to criticism to have it; but then criticism must be sincere, simple, flexible, ardent, ever widening its knowledge. Then it may have, in no contemptible measure, a joyful sense of creative activity; a sense which a man of insight and conscience will prefer to what he might derive from a poor, starved, fragmentary, inadequate creation. And at some epochs no other creation is possible.” – Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
 
To see the object
As in itself
It really is

Curious find
Free play of mind

Hello sloperator
Can you give me back
My dime?

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