“There is always an emotional element to anything you make.” ~ Oscar de la Renta above ~ left / Oscar de la Renta’s tulle at the De Young Retrospective. right / an early…
Art Hotel | 1122 7th Street, Sacramento February 5 – February 13 call/text for questions 510.915.1312 go HERE for times, press, and other updates of performance ~~~ “the great advantage of a hotel is that it…
“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…
“When in doubt wear RED.” ~ Bill Blass “All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with…
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard These were the words from one of the many quotes that were both spoken and written in Laurie Anderson’s beautiful, mesmerizing,…
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Here are two articles ~ the first on cocktails, the second on clothes ~ that I wrote earlier…
“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…