Leila Lois

Happy Monday 🌸

Emily Dickinson’s complete herbarium of pressed flowers 💐

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A metal plaque with raised lettering spelling out the phrase, "In a dream you saw a way to survive and your were full of joy."

And by way of response: Jenny Holzer, Untitled ("In a Dream..."), from The Survival Series, 1983–85

The Kurdish Musician by Mimi Khalvati The Kurdish Musician   She is swaddled in pink, sky-blue and veiled in a gold hejab that with every chime of her santoor dangles its fringe ...

The Kurdish Musician by Mimi Khalvati
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Saw Wuthering Heights tonight, with whimsical girlfriends 🌾💕 we laughed, we delighted…I cried (final scene will strike a chord with those who have lost someone they love more than anything forever, with no goodbye)

It’s an entirely different beast to the book, yet it’s a limbic cinematic trip still

A particularly painful dimension of this essay is that Tatiana’s cousin is Robert F. Kennedy Jr... she depends on the very medical research & treatments he threatens through funding cuts & vaccine skepticism.

My mum too was diagnosed with blood cancer last year

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‘I think that art is companionship . . . it has always made me feel less lonely when I’m alone.’ — Anna Weyant

There's a part in the movie
where you can see right through the acting,
where you can tell that I'm about to burst into tears,
right before I burst into tears
and flee to the slimy moonlit riverbed
canopied with devastated clouds.

~ Richard Siken, from ‘Crush’

YouTube video by Robust Rouge Double Bogey | Short Film

A funny short I acted in last year, on location in Wellington⛳️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Vx...

♥️

Tonight I was well enough to go out- & I saw Marty Supreme, which was excellent. But unsure it’s anything to do with love… devotion, yes ♥️

Looks delicious x

Tonight, The Garden of Desires, 1987 by Ali Hamroyev. Haunting & beautiful 🥀

Tonight’s film, Closer, 2004, “No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?” 💘

I love these

Separation Anxiety, 2019 by Kelli Vance www.instagram.com/kelvance

Tonight’s recommendation, Brooklyn, 2015, with Saoirse Ronan, “You'll feel so homesick that you'll want to die, and there's nothing you can do about it apart from endure it. But you will and it won't kill you. And one day the sun will come out... And you'll realize that this is where your life is."

Last week to submit extracts for this conference dance researchers. Submit & we can be buddies in Long Beach in Oct 🩰👙 dasa.memberclicks.net/speculative-...

Thomas Nagel · Now and Then: Living in Time Our lives don’t just play out over time: we lead them over the course of that time, shaping them as an extended whole...

‘The death of someone loved focuses all one’s attention on the person one has lost – on the past. The progress of one’s life comes to a stop. This is an appropriate reaction to the brutality of death.’

Thomas Nagel on how we live within temporality.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Starting with ‘Cet Obscur Objet du Désir’, Luis Buñuel, 1977 💃🏽

I’ve come home from teaching my Pilates clients, trying not to sneeze all day & finally conceding to stay in until I get better.. it will likely mean Valentine’s in bed alone. So if you have a romantic or at least whimsical film please share 🌹

Tender contact is what neoliberal fascism cannot stand. ~ André Lepecki 🤍

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Autumn Barre Flow A barre class with a difference ⋆˖⁺‧₊☽◯☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ Using the serene powers of autumn, join us in a Pilates/barre flow.

A barre flow offering timed with the change of season, all welcome ~ events.humanitix.com/autumn-barre... 🍂🤍

Gosh and it made me want to go back Latin America. The only thing more powerful than hate is love ♥️

Bad Bunny Delivers Joyful Super Bowl Halftime Show

Joy, music and dance as resistance!

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It's misty in the dream. It says you promised to go on.

~ Elizabeth Willis (inspired by @alinaetc.bsky.social)

My mum also loves cosy crime 🥰

“The Quiet House,” by Tessa Hadley What was the point of keeping all those secrets? Wasn’t your story wasted if nobody knew it?

You could never read everything. Completion or mastery were beside the point. All that counted were those occasions when you picked up a book and opened it & its words attached themselves to that moment & transfigured it, & then the moment passed. ~ Tessa Hadley 🤍

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Purr-fect casting: is Orangey the most important movie cat ever? A new retrospective celebrates the work of the cat credited with roles in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Comedy of Terrors and Rhubarb

"Even the most intense adult human actors are pretending. Orangey, in all of his indeterminate forms, actually lives the movies."

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

So tragic 😢

Film: "Friendship" - The American Mag It’s hard to say whether narcissism is really at an all-time high or if there’s just too much being said [...]

Supremely awkward, very funny, a little bit brilliant film about a “male suburban narcissist”. Another A24 bullseye theamericanmag.com/film-friends...