All the chats! Substack Chat may not be the best at this time though. I made a Page Turner Channel on Discord with Threads for each audiobook (W&P and 1984), nice and organised.
I love the short anecdotes! So great to imagine the experience of the photograph. I’m sort of cancelling chat until they make it better 😁 but I’ll check yours out now!
So lovely! I enjoy the busy simplicity of the second photo the most.
This thoughtful collection reminded me of a little paragraph I wrote on the bus from London to Southampton back in September entitled “Musings from a Bus Window:”
So much of a house’s beauty comes from the windows. Neighboring apartment buildings, one with windows surrounded by a white, wooden trim with a simple, engraved design, one with a basic pane of glass encased in the wider brick wall, emanate supremely different feelings: μεν a lived-in gentleness and elegance, δε a lifeless conformity and disinterest. Both windows achieve the same for the internal audience: light passes through to illuminate the inhabited space. It’s the passers-by who experience it differently, and the beauty pricks some delight in our souls, consciously or unconsciously. Maybe that’s why the two [Eastern Orthodox] Liturgies I attended this weekend felt so different. One was held in a plain, grey space, with the priest’s vestments providing the brightest splotches of color. The other celebrated in a mosaic-rich, dazzlingly iconographic cathedral. Obviously, the soulful Mystery of the Eucharist permeates beauty wherever two or three are gathered together, my spirit can recognize that. However, my weak bodily eyes search for those windows to heaven to help me better glimpse heaven’s glory.
Thank you, Lucy! Happy you enjoyed the photos and thank you for sharing your lovely vignette! Windows and Buildings are such a great motif and some are stunningly beautiful even in their simplest of shapes.
Great pic, as ever. The second is my favourite. Something about the verticality of it.
I miss having some of the background info/stories that you put with these last year 😉 The little anecdotes etc were really great to hear about.
Thanks, thanks! Ahh, the anecdotes. I could, I could. I put them in the chat thread, but maybe I should put them in the post. Who's using chat, right?
Edit: added the chat content to the post as well. Minimal anecdotes.
Ah yes sorry forget there was going to be a chat thread when I wrote that message.
But yes, Chat is always a bit 🤷♂️
But it can be good. Maybe a little of both?
Yeah, gotta try out different things, I am sure FF will keep changing.
Wait are we talking about substack chat or Discord? 😅
All the chats! Substack Chat may not be the best at this time though. I made a Page Turner Channel on Discord with Threads for each audiobook (W&P and 1984), nice and organised.
I love the short anecdotes! So great to imagine the experience of the photograph. I’m sort of cancelling chat until they make it better 😁 but I’ll check yours out now!
Yeah, Substack Chat is a pain. I think I will focus on Discord. Also good to have a community home independent of Substack.
I went on just now but your bot scares me 😅
Haha Tyrion Lannister needs to be locked up. I will confine him to general chat only. Along with Batman and Darth Vader. 😅
That makes sense. I always forget to go there!
That's the other hurdle, yet another app/account to maintain! Then again Discord has been around for quite some time and is a solid tool.
It’s fun! Go for it
So lovely! I enjoy the busy simplicity of the second photo the most.
This thoughtful collection reminded me of a little paragraph I wrote on the bus from London to Southampton back in September entitled “Musings from a Bus Window:”
So much of a house’s beauty comes from the windows. Neighboring apartment buildings, one with windows surrounded by a white, wooden trim with a simple, engraved design, one with a basic pane of glass encased in the wider brick wall, emanate supremely different feelings: μεν a lived-in gentleness and elegance, δε a lifeless conformity and disinterest. Both windows achieve the same for the internal audience: light passes through to illuminate the inhabited space. It’s the passers-by who experience it differently, and the beauty pricks some delight in our souls, consciously or unconsciously. Maybe that’s why the two [Eastern Orthodox] Liturgies I attended this weekend felt so different. One was held in a plain, grey space, with the priest’s vestments providing the brightest splotches of color. The other celebrated in a mosaic-rich, dazzlingly iconographic cathedral. Obviously, the soulful Mystery of the Eucharist permeates beauty wherever two or three are gathered together, my spirit can recognize that. However, my weak bodily eyes search for those windows to heaven to help me better glimpse heaven’s glory.
Thank you, Lucy! Happy you enjoyed the photos and thank you for sharing your lovely vignette! Windows and Buildings are such a great motif and some are stunningly beautiful even in their simplest of shapes.
Perfect pairing of tune to images, A - well done, love the new logo :)
Thanks, Troy! Appreciate you stopping by.
All these are fantastic! I especially love the children one. So jovial! (Well, maybe not so much the lonesome kid to the right lol.)
Thanks, Nadia! Yeah, maybe she's on the phone with the girl in pic 3? Unlikely!
Hah! Maybe! But it looks like a compress? Maybe she got hurt?
Oooh, could be! Or she has a battery on top of the phone, quite usual (there's a little cord at the bottom). Now I wonder...
OoooooOooooOoooo...a wonder to wonder about for years to come!
Let's ask AI to deep enhance!
Roflmao let's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiqkclCJsZs
These are great little snapshots of life, Alexander
Third one is probably my favourite. Just showing the happiness and joy of any given moment
Brilliantly captured 👍🏼
Thanks, Daniel. Yes, it's just life, one snap at a time. Glad you like them!