Kawase Hasui (1883-1957).
Tenno-ji Temple in Osaka (Osaka Tenno-ji).
Showa period, 1927. Woodblock print.

With the colder months approaching, I look forward to the possibility of experiencing the sense of peace this beautiful print elicits.

Finally ready to fling the first post up on the new version of my website. I say fling because I have a tendency to be a bit too precious about posting and I’m going to try and be less reserved. I think I’ve set things up so that posting without titles will behave in my RSS feeds. The goal is to reduce friction.

This post can get me started, and since I’m the only one who really cares about the old content, I can take my time backfilling it.

The photo is one that came through my feed from Kafka’s Apartment Tumbler account. It sat on my desktop while I was building this new site, and I fell under it’s spell. A beautiful but mysterious face.

This site would be a whole lot bleaker/blander without the colorful paintings my friend Kyra Mills occasionally shares with me.

Here in the Midwest, our memory of Summery things can fade quickly, so dose yourself up with some butterflies!

You can see more of Kyra’s paintings if you scroll through the posts on this page.