A sunset

From home. Striking colors that my eyes fail to detect as sharply as does the camera. The (second hand) Pentax K1000 has arrived. I hope that she and I will build a deep and lasting friendship.

"These films are rather to be thought of as differently configuring intellectual and emotional avenues that philosophy is already in exploration of, but which, perhaps, it has cause sometimes to turn from prematurely, particularly in its forms since its professionalization, or academization. . . . The implied claim is that film, the latest of the great arts, shows philosophy to be the often invisible accompaniment of the ordinary lives that film is so apt to capture."

(Stanley Cavell, Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004), p. 6.)