the landscape
the state i am in
Whatever is best for a human being lies outside human control: it can be neither given nor taken away. The world you see, nature’s greatest and most glorious creation, and the human mind which gazes and wonders at it, and is the most splendid part of it, these are our own everlasting possessions and will remain with us as long as we ourselves remain. So, eager and upright, let us hasten with bold steps wherever circumstances take us, and let us journey through any countries whatever: there can be no place of exile within the world since nothing within the world is alien to men.
—Seneca
i guess my camera still works?
Children circle around an ultraviolet lamp to get a dose of vitamin D in Murmansk, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, August 1977.
Photograph by Dean Conger, National Geographic
this photograph has stuck in my mind since i saw it as a child. i sat outside on my lunch hour today to try and get in as much time in the warmth and sun as possible, and all i could think of was this photograph.
