It’s Halloween, everybody: Mirrors and Masks

Halloween: A day of rest for those who wear a mask all the time.

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Strangers | The Poetry of Arab Women

Strangers by Huda Ablan   1. No one belongs to the path except a pocket stuffed with the leaves of the night. It keeps steps in stock from a shop at the crossroads of the will, patched with the skin of an old dream. When yawning, it invites them to a dance with few feet [...]

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Sketching at Bassam on a Friday Night

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Three Cups

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Mending Walls

MENDING WALL Robert Frost Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one [...]

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Scenes from Parapluies de Cherbourg Thank you Dianna.

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New Jewelry Design: ‘Three Talismans | Nodes’ necklace

A talisman (from Arabic طلسم Tilasm, ultimately from Greek telesma or from the Greek word “telein” which means “to initiate into the mysteries”) is an amulet or other object considered to possess supernatural or magical powers. (thankyou wiki.) Each spacer/bolt has the word intre·pidi·ty embedded on it. Susan Lenart Kazmer, of Industrial chic ,gives us [...]

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The Rose of Versailles

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Orsetto

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View from the Seine

  To walk in Paris is to behold, and be part of, a living and continuously changing painting.

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Le Petit Palais

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A Poem for October

October By Frederick Seidel   It is time to lose your life, Even if it isn’t over. It is time to say goodbye and try to die. It is October. The mellow cello Allee of trees is almost lost in sweetness and mist When you take off your watch at sunrise To lose your life. [...]

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Paris Diaries: Cafe De Flore, Quartier Latin

Les chemins de la Liberte’ passent par le Flore. Jean-Paul Sartre

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Paris Diaries: Le Quai de la Seine et St. Michel

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Books for the Parisian Flaneur

For many travelers, Paris is Parisland. Here’s the Eiffel Tower. Let’s take aboat ride along the Seine. Ah, the Champs Elysees. Five museums on the list — let’s whip through them. And, late at night, we’ve got to find that nightclub where the girls kick up their …heels. Others — that’s my brood and me [...]

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Love and the Sea

“Inside a lover’s heart there’s another world, and yet another.”         Love         rests on no foundation.         It is an endless ocean,         with no beginning or end.         Imagine,         a suspended ocean,         riding on a cushion of            ancient secrets.         All souls have drowned in it,        and now dwell [...]

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