The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: bridge

Over a year

19 December 2005, around 18.15.

Hawthorne bridge, Portland, OR, Fall 2004

these days

7 January 2007, around 21.46.

These days I spend a lot of time crossing bridges. Partly because we moved across the river from practically everything we are interested in; partly because, well because my feet are getting itchy again. It’s amazing how deadlines work – one puts things off, doesn’t think about them, and then the time creeps up when […]

not at home

27 August 2007, around 0.30.

At home in the evening, planning escapades. The books read and unread gathering coffee stains and toast crumbs. The at one time unimaginable, commonplace. Things moving slowly. The sense of progress, though: gears turning, ticking well-oiled shiny. Intangible, unavoidable, inescapable. Backed into imagined corners that flatten and fade and open onto unexpected vantages. Yet continuance […]

afternoon commute

30 August 2016, around 14.18.

befogged

3 May 2017, around 5.40.

Ghostly views on the morning walk – weather warm and strange.

kamurj

13 February 2018, around 7.43.

Exploring new bridges.

bridging the gap

22 June 2021, around 10.56.

This a juxtaposition of two quotations about the philosophical necessity for cognitive leaps, from Claude Lévi-Strauss and Henri Bergson.

fleeting

21 February 2023, around 11.44.

Undoubtedly, the landscape will be endearing to someone in the future, even if it changes again. People live in the world of their own moment. They get used to their environment and cannot waste emotions on grieving over everything that has changed. —Andri Snær Magnason (On Time and Water, trans. Lytton Smith, p. 251)

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