river

“Was there ever in anyone’s life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum of all the choices gone before?”

“The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.”

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film · although a bit over-dramatized and over-stylized, greta gerwig’s ladybird’s last scenes beautifully capture the nostalgia of realizing freedom amongst the rivers and alleys of sacramento.

words I · from run, river by joan didion on memory and how our life unfolds as nothing more than a series of decisions and actions.

photographs · these images by jamie hawkeswork accompanied joan didion’s 1966 essay on keeping a notebook published by the gould collection in 2019.

music · to june by ganglians, is everything that is early summer in sacramento.

paintings · painter wayne thiebaud, who has spent much of his life in sacramento, captures the depths of the seemingly one-dimensional delta with startling color and profundity.

words II · from raymond carver ‘s where water comes together with other water: poems on how bodies of water converge. carver also lived in sacramento for a time and these words are reminiscent of how the sacramento and american rivers meet.