“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…
“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…
“But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your…
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ~ Aldous Huxley I’ve always had a love affair with music ~ whether dancing to the beat of the drum or deep bass, listening…
“I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see, and then one day, something happened, something extraordinary, I got IN.” ~ Daft Punk, Derezzed ~~~~~ It’s always a wonder where inspiration comes from ~ sometimes…
“At last she was going to know the joys of love, the fever of the happiness she had despaired of. She was entering a marvelous realm where all would be passion, ecstasy, rapture: she was in…
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” ~ Nelson Mandela It’s a simple idea, and I like to think of Telluride as…
“True belonging is born of relationships not only to one another but to a place of shared responsibilities and benefits. We love not so much what we have acquired as what we have made and whom…
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” ~ Dostoevsky ~~~~~~~ How do we get from there to…
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,…
“Eventually everything connects ~ people, ideas, objects…the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.” ~ Charles and Ray Eames My first gig out of college was as a Hilla Rebay intern at…
