Some objects that seem lonely

A tree illuminated halide orange beside a train station

Chairs in a house whose inhabitants are far away

The city in darkness moving by at great speed

The golden summit of a hill in the cloudless sky

A piece of glass reflecting a youthful face

Willow trees

--A Red Hermit

The Only Happy Boy in the World

Once upon a time there was a truly happy boy. He was the only truly happy person in the world. One day, however, he had an epiphany regarding his own mortality and consequently, the mortality of true happiness itself. He realized that after he was gone, the world would go on. His own world of happiness would end, but the world itself would continue with all of its fear and suffering, just the same as if he had never been. This filled him with great sadness.

A Content Hermit

A Problem with Spiders

I modified the map of the first floor of the Bing Wing Library

https://library.stanford.edu/depts/green/where/floor_plans/bing_floor1.html