tour de France

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells…where storms come and go as...

ordinary sacred

“Always everything plain and simple.  No fancy words, no allusions, no 
metaphors.
 No quirky phrases.
 No allegories, no analogies, no symbols, 
no anything standing for something
 else.
 No analysis. No conclusions.
 No grand anything.
 Just the common and the...

a landscape of love

LOVE AFTER LOVE The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give...

magical thinking

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” Carl Sandburg On a recent flight from the States back to France I became fully aware of the fact that I don”t like to fly.  Suspended in...

quintessentially French

“The French air clears up the brain and does a world of good.” Vincent Van Gogh France is the most visited country in the world and Paris, predestined by history, is still considered the epicenter of fashion, cuisine, wine, art, history and culture.  The...