Today
Remember the ladies
She wants a letter half as long as the ones she sends. The farm is hers. The children are still well. He is in Philadelphia. In the same sheet, later, she asks him to remember the ladies. The slogan is not the morning. The wait is.
Braintree
Read today’s story →Letters
Ille mi par esse deo videtur
The correspondence itself →
Stories
The lives around the letters.
A growing archive. 37 encounters.
Atlas
Comum (Como)→Campania
Love across place, distance, and time.
The Word
eros
“Desire” can be calm, consumer, or vague. Ἔρως is pointed, often involuntary, and frequently described as an assault on speech and standing. “Love” is worse: it smuggles in companionship, duration, and mutuality that the Greek word does not require.