Obsolescent sentiment from Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Ebury Press, 2019.

A clip from the animated short, directed by Peter Baynton and Charlie Mackesy in 2022.

‘I do not think misery is more profound than happiness…I happen to believe in the beauty of simple things.’ A clip from In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter, 2012, by Tomas Leach.

Every leaf is different from another, Nietzsche wrote in 1873, but we tend to erase these differences, imagining leaves as ‘woven, drawn, delineated, coloured, curled, painted, by a clumsy pair of hands.’ Robert Mapplethorpe, in 1989, photographed one, single leaf, as an example .

Gifts are impossible.

Every crystal is a masterpiece of design, and Wilson Bentley noted, 'no one design was ever repeated'. A plate from Israel Perkins Warren’s book, Snowflakes: A Chapter From the Book of Nature (1863).

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Isaac shares a tender moment with Rusty, his family horse. Photographed by Carolyn Kaster, for Associated Press.

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A woman and a child enjoying an afternoon in Bangladesh. This should have been the photograph for the first quarter of this century, but it isn't. Mohammad Ponir Hossain, for Reuters.

This photograph by Thomas Peter, for Reuters, of a Ukrainian commander just about sums up the first quarter of twenty-first century. Revenge on one hand, and hate on the other.

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