barometry

on weights, pressures and gravity

借りぐらしのアリエッティ
(The Borrower Arriety)

These are disastrous consequences, and all the result of not having “the heart established in grace.

Charles Henry Mackintosh
Chapters XXIX—XXXI
Notes on the Book of Genesis

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards me and towards objective things.

Albert Einstein, 30 July 1947
Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives
From a letter in response to an Idaho farmer who named his son Albert and requesting to give the boy a few words of encouragement.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts
A shadow passes

Diagnoses
by Anne Emond

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone;

XC, Canto III
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Lord Byron

“What it means to be an adult”
by Monica Sutera Ekabutr

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Essper
Vivian Grey
Benjamin Disraeli

I’m not young enough to know everything.

Ernest
The Admirable Crichton
J. M. Barrie

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