The January Archive
Like you I love love, life, the sweet smell of things, the sky-blue landscape of January days. (Roque Dalton)
some recommendations based on what i’ve been reading, watching and using in the month of january.


to read —
Betty by Tiffany Mcdaniel. (2020)
a quote that stuck with me: “Everything we need to live a life as long as we're allowed has been given to us in nature,” he'd say. “That's not to claim if you eat this plant, you will never die, for the plant itself will one day die, and you are no more special than it. All we can do is try to heal the things that can be healed and ease the complaints of the things that cannot be. At the very least, we bring the earth inside us and restore the knowledge that even the smallest leaf has a soul.”

Lila by Marilynne Robinson. (2014)
a quote that stuck with me: If you think about a human face, it can be something you don’t want to look at, so sad or so hard or so kind. It can be something you want to hide, because it pretty well shows where you’ve been and what you can expect. And anybody at all can see it, but you can’t. It just floats there in front of you. It might as well be your soul, for all you can do to protect it.

(articles corner)
Letter From a Region in my Mind by James Baldwin. (november 9, 1962)
to watch —
The Innocents (directed by Jack Clayton, 1961)
a quote that stuck with me: — Do you have an imagination? — Oh, yes, I can answer that. Yes. — Good. Truth is very seldom understood by any but imaginative persons… and I want to be quite truthful.

Now and Then (directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, 1995)
a quote that stuck with me: I realize that I have been so afraid of the bad things that I’ve missed out on the good.

La Sociedad de la Nieve (directed by J. A. Bayona, 2023)
a quote that stuck with me: No hay amor más grande que el que da la vida por sus amigos.

to use —
— Caudalie Vinoperfect Serum Anti-taches Éclat (for glowy skin)
— Jo Malone Scarlet Poppy (for a cold day)
— Sibylle Baier (to calm down after a stressful day)
— Tia Blake (for a soft evening)