To-day was a typical winter day; in the morning, I awoke in a cold sunshiny air; it was cold and the wind was blowing hard.
Growing stale is not so much in forgetting ideas but in losing the youthful vigour to consider them worth dying for—
...I admire Leonardo, Titian, Michelangelo, although Michelangelo seems like something a little more distant from me than some of the others.
Viewed absolutely every aspect of nature is beautiful.
...I love the approach of winter, the retreat of winter, the change from snow to rain & vice-versa; the decay of vegetation; and the resurgence of plant-life in the spring —
I awoke early enough to see the sun-rise. It startled me half out of bed. Up away from the horizon was a long cloud bar, flaming salmon in color, against a blue green sky.
I had an odd dream of a rainstorm this morning. I was at home and as I saw it approaching, I was ever on the point of running for my sketch book but never did, fascinated as I was.
I wandered over barren hills on a warm January night – I cried out to my Creator in the agony of my base worthlessness – a mysterious presence comforted me from out of the air –
We have been having real old-fashioned winter these days. Thursday night we all went to the picture-show.
To Albright School – icy driving. Only four showed up (Solowski, Barrett, Levitt & Sulz). I am both angered and bored and embarrassed.