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 love goals ~ end of the year, mid-year, whenever. They propel me forward; and sometimes one needs this type of motivation… When I began this blog in May of 2014, I knew that I wanted…
“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. but in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body. the heaviest of burdens…
“It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single…
ABOVE THE MOSEL VALLEY “Off in the distance, there are trees, and then nothing. The tall, lean winemaker and I are walking towards those trees, beyond which the world drops away. When I first met him,…
“Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” ~ Albert Einstein I came to Raj through his name. Someone mentioned it, and it was mentioned again, and then again. And my…
“Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your world-cities. But tonight I would like to think of one man, a lone individual,…
“There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.” ~ MFK Fisher I met Paul Draper through his wine. It was my 40th birthday, Chez Panisse, and the wine…
“Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It’s an obsession of mine, that different people, in different places, are thinking the same thing, but…