Today's subject line is from Robert Frost's I have been one acquainted with the night... which, among other things, begins the section on "Loneliness" in Gates of Prayer, published by 1975 by the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Skimming the permissions list (the poem does not appear with a credit line), I see that the siddur also includes texts by E. E. Cummings, John Masefield, Denise Levertov, Archibald MacLeish, and John Hall Wheelock, Stephen Spender, as well as Anthony Hecht, Muriel Rukeyser, and Leonard Cohen.

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RIP Eric Joisel, French origami artist. The obituary penned by Margalit Fox is itself a work of art, with numerous links to Joisel's oeuvre and both a splendid opening paragraph --

It is no small thing to make a hedgehog. The first time Eric Joisel tried it, it took nearly six years.

--and a corker of a closer:

All one needs is a square of paper, infinite patience and an entire afternoon.

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In "the Milan issue" of the NYT Style Magazine, there's a feature on the digs of Mauro Orietti-Carella. His aesthetic preferences and mine are pretty far apart, but philosophically? I recognize me in this:

Orietta-Carella sees himself as contributing to the palazzo's long history, adding another layer to a palimpsest of influences. "I feel unconditional love for this place, and it's a privilege to be here to express something so deep and strong within myself," he said. "I don't have children. But I know that whatever I do here, someone -- in 20 years, in 30 years, in 100 years -- will remember that I passed here for a while."