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.