french country living

by | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog

“The home should be the treasure chest of living.” Le Corbusier I’ve often felt the way a house looks is an outward manifestation of the souls within.  I believe a house stores energy in the molecules of its structure, the older the building the more...

la danse des amis

by | Aug 3, 2015 | Blog

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.” Thomas Moore While looking at the calendar over the weekend I noticed that...

tour de France

by | Jul 1, 2015 | Blog

“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

by | Jun 2, 2015 | Blog

“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

by | May 1, 2015 | Blog

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

by | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog

“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...