💬 A good note on hospitality from The Odyssey:
If you are longing to go home, I would not keep you for the world, not I. I’d think myself or any other host as ill-mannered for over-friendliness as for hostility. Measure is best in everything, To send a guest packing or cling to him when he’s in haste— one sin equals the other. ‘Good entertaining ends with no detaining.’
📷 Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington DC, 35mm on Portra 400
✏️ New Word Learned:
Perfidy: deceitfulness; untrustworthiness.
📷 Abandoned office space in Midtown, Manhattan taken on 35mm film, Portra 400
🎵🎥 Machine Gun Kelly having one of the best dance sequences in a music video in recent memory is so unexpected… but so enjoyable.
Shoutout also to Travis Barker of Blink-182 who is credited on the song. A fellow Inland Empire native who made it out and became a legend. 🤘
eatbigfish is a strategy consultancy in the UK that has heavily inspired a project I’m working on.
When they offered to send free copies of a magazine to whoever asked, I inquired if they mailed to the US. I got it today, for free, with a handwritten note.
It really is the little things…
🎵 I cancelled my music streaming services a few months ago and have instead been burning CD’s to my iPod. Found 7 albums (for only $1 each!) at a Housing Works Thrift shop in the Upper East Side of Manhattan this week and am stoked to listen this weekend:
💬 “Everything must be taken seriously, nothing tragically.”— Louis Adolphe Thiers
A solid reminder in today’s political environment.
Hello, micro.blog. My name is Bradley.
📷 Leisurely reader at Franciscan Monastery, Washington DC
Taken on 35mm film, Portra 400.
