Photo by Eric Johnson. Chalk art by David Zinn.
"I still remember what it was like walking in your door that very first time. That brief pause before we decided that this was really happening, that our lives were colliding right here, in the brutal light of morning. Our lips, so used to clever turns of phrase, were silent as they arrived at their logical conclusion. Then there was no turning back. It was more than a moment shared between two people. It was a choice to make of our existence something we wanted, to stop being hostages to time and make of our lives everything we’d ever dreamed, and even those things we’d never allowed ourselves to dream."
"I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends."
- Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. — Joan Didion
Hugh Hefner, working at his desk at the original Playboy Mansion in Chicago, IL, 1966. Photo by Burt Glinn.
