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Fairy-tale middle
We love to talk about fairy-tale endings, where everything is wrapped up neatly in a bow. Love is requited all around regardless of sexual preference. Bills are paid. Unemployment is a non-existent concept. Economies hum along nicely without creating abuses. … Continue reading
Confession #6: The air we breathe
You can’t see it, of course, but air is one of the defining ingredients of a place. It can inspire as much longing or nostalgia as a certain type of bread or the view from a window in a room … Continue reading
Posted in AROUND US, FRANCE
Tagged air, Burgundy, chattanooga tennessee, humidity, memory, Milan, mood
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Let there be light, Part 2
Shortly after my last post. 9:30 p.m. The light come on— a glow warm as hope in the doubt-ridden night. And that brings to mind another poem I love: Hope is the Thing with Feathers Hope is the thing with … Continue reading
Posted in AROUND US, FRANCE
Tagged Burgundy, Emily Dickinson, France, hope, Hope is the Thing with Feathers, street light
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Let there be light
When darkness asserts itself, they come on—at first, a faint pink glow. At midnight, they go out leaving the town blanketed in pitch-blackness. Inside these rustic houses are high-speed internet connections. But outside there are streetlights reminiscent of a long … Continue reading
Posted in AROUND US, FRANCE
Tagged Burgundy, France, long-life bulbs, robert louis stevenson, street lights, the lamplighter
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Roofscapes
Whenever you find yourself in a foreign country, it is the things that are completely normal (so normal as to be invisible) to the natives that are, to you, the hallmarks of Wonderland. I’ve walked through the streets of this … Continue reading
Posted in AROUND US, FRANCE
Tagged Burgundy, camille pissarro, cezanne, France, gardanne, peter wegner, rooftops
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How much is that doggy in the arm chair?
Last Sunday, despite inhospitable weather conditions (the kind you grow to expect here in July), we repeated one of our favorite summer rituals: the antique market at Noyers-sur-Serein. This isn’t your typical vide-grenier. It’s a much more elegant affair with … Continue reading
A late happy 4th of July: Amber waves of blé
Like many of you, I grew up singing a national anthem about something I’d never seen: amber waves of grain. Not only had I never experienced them first hand; I certainly had no idea why one would sing an impossible … Continue reading
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My kind of truck
Traffic—charmingly—doesn’t flow the way it’s supposed to. A tractor turns onto the road in front of you laden with logs that hang far off the back brandishing a red hanky. Your speedometer, accordingly, takes a nose dive. Or another, headed … Continue reading
The sum is greater than the itty bitty parts
Being a person entirely too prone to seeing metaphor all around her, and to enthusiastically point it out to friends, family and uninterested by-standers, I have once again stumbled upon something that, well, means something to me. (Doesn’t that sum … Continue reading
Healed by a single flower
So many of you have been kind enough to write or leave comments saying, “Are you okay? We haven’t heard from you in a while.” And the answer is a resounding yes. I’ve been working. And as my work is … Continue reading
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