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Day: June 29, 2015

Summer Diary / The Met

June 29, 2015

To begin this rather emotional (for me, of course) celebration of five years of living in eternal New York City, I thought it made most sense to start at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I love the Met – there is honestly no place like it (except for some parts of it remind me of … More Summer Diary / The Met

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“What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful, that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art. The main requisite, I think, on reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of a censor, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever; since I was curious to find how I went for things put in haphazard, and found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time.” -- Virginia Woolf.
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