May 18. To visit a place because there is value in merely looking at it is a very new idea. Unsure if you can call that cultural progress. If so, what are the things we haven’t even begun to imagine as culture? – The sunlight on the wall of the scaffolding a few meters down Ninety-first Street, next to it the tree in full leaf – I briefly noticed that yesterday and saw from this one sight that summer is here. We should learn to see everything with boundless amazement, boundless delight, boundless curiosity, that would be culture.