it's monday, and i got nothing

though things are remarkably good right now. wanting to at least find something to put up, i was reminded of this quote by Diane Arbus that ends Michael Kimmelman's review of her show at the Met. Sad life and a sad woman at times, but she hits on something here that's beautiful:

''The world is a Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable,'' Arbus said in a letter to a friend. ''And heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.''

I should write about nostalgia sometime. One of the harder things to pull down but we all somehow get it. You, too.