La Seu Vella, Lleida, Catalonia. Photos By Adeline Gressin

remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.

the world is spinning faster and I'm here seated, writing.

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“There was a grand piano, too, and Charles was playing, a glass of whiskey on the seat beside him. He was a little drunk; the Chopin was slurred and fluid, the notes melting sleepily into one another. A breeze stirred the heavy, moth-eaten velvet curtains, ruffling his hair.”

When C.S. Lewis wrote “but some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

how many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

— Virginia Woolf

remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.