January:

• Richard Barthelmess
• James Dean
• Soviet firearms
• the act of reading

February:

• early mornings/ my new cafetière
• Leonard Cohen's "Old Ideas"
• Sherlock
• James Dean
• Lost in Translation

March:

• introversion
• James Dean
• French coffee, French wine

April:

• Bohemian Paris
• Beatrix Potter
• Jacob's Room

May:

• introversion
• Listening Post, Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin
• the Science Museum in London
• songbirds

June:

• arms, armour, and Spanish damascene
• Vienna: coffee houses, ballet, Lipizzaner Stallions, the Titians in the Kunsthistorisches Museum
• Kerouac, the road, and "shambling after"