What 15 Very Different People Hope to See in 2025 | NYT:

Colson Whitehead: “I have no hopes for 2025. Humanity is disappointing. We killed the Earth. Villains triumph and the innocents suffer. I imagine these trends will continue.”

Also works for every year.

Oscar Wilde had his palms read — and sketched.

I quit Netflix six or seven years ago, and would never have come back … but when I learned that they’re doing Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl … well. If they’d charged me fifty bucks I’d have signed up immediately. Watched it tonight and it’s a masterpiece. 🎞

One of the best things I did last year was to inspire a couple of Austin Kleon’s collages.

Lo, how a rose … and Angus photobombing it

St. Birgitta writing out her account of the Nativity. She seems to have been an exceptionally large woman.

Theodore Butler, “New York Harbor, Daytime” (1915), in the Louvre

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A Gospel page from the Nunnaminster Book