“for last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” ~ t.s. eliot, four quartets “just ’cause something’ ain’t been done don’t mean it can’t be did.” ~ shel silverstein…
“Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,” Polo said. “Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already…
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ~ Virginia Woolf “We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.” ~…
Above ~ Salon Dinner #34, photo by Guthrie Dolin. ~~~~~ “A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between their work and their play; their labor and their leisure; their mind and their…
“i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i…
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. ~ Hans Christian Anderson “Images last for ever, our minds…
“What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.” ~ Miuccia Prada ~~~~~ Clothes have been my world, formally for the past…
“Happiness is the longing for repetition.” ~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984 I love the balance of repetition and novelty. Below are a trio of writings that hint at this balance ~ the…
“one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well…” ~ virginia woolf ~~~~~~~ Above ~ “RED” #1, Feb 18th 2012 ~ Deb Durant, Heike Liss, Beth Ann McFadden, myself, Christopher Willits,…
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin I came to cooking by getting involved. I would be in a specific place, and someone would…
“there is always an emotional element to anything you make.” ~ oscar de la renta ~~~~~ the things we love are always emotional. whether people, places, or yes, the things we make by hand or…
“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it’s a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It’s only if I have an idea for…