“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…
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” ~ Nelson Mandela Above ~ Yohji Yamamoto in Tokyo, opening still from…
“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that…
“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” ~ Gilbert Chesterton I met Erin Scott years ago through her Rockridge boutique AUGUST that she opened with Louesa Roebuck,…
“Children believe what we tell them. They have complete faith in us. They believe that a rose plucked from a garden can plunge a family into conflict. They believe that the hands of a human beast…
“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…
“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…