James Baldwin, From Jimmys Blues; Munich, Winter 1978 (For Y.S), Originally Published In 1990

— James Baldwin, from Jimmy’s Blues; “Munich, Winter 1978 (For Y.S),” originally published in 1990

“I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.”

— Martha Gellhorn, in a letter to Hortense Flexner and Wyncie King, from Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn (

Fullers Mill Garden, Suffolk, England ~ Clive Nichols

Denis Forkas Kostromitin - Study for Hypocrites (illustration for Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - Inferno, Canto 23)