Today I was on my way to the church of St. Peter in Chains (where the chains are in fact on display), when I paused to look at a stand of used books. I had run out of things I wanted to read so thought perhaps I could find something here. As I was browsing, I noticed that the … [Read more...]
A New Perspective: Reflections on Proust
I am in Rome now, a city I lived in thirty years ago. As a cab driver said, trying to flatter me, yesterday, I must have been a bambina. Well, that aside, I spent a lot of time tht year with architects and art historians and I learned a few things about this city. Mainly that … [Read more...]
Have assignment – Will travel…
When I was a girl, I used to watch Palladin every Sunday night before the Ed Sullivan show. And now you know how old I am...Anyway his theme was Have gun - Will travel. Richard Boone starred in it. He was a tough gunslinger who went all over the West, righting wrongs, etc. I … [Read more...]
What Michaelangelo said…
To paraphrase Michaelangelo the sculpture already existed in the marble. He just had to chip away to find it. I was thinking about this a lot when we arrived in Spain last week. To be honest I was in the dumps. Work wasn't going so well. I wasn't sure that it was the right … [Read more...]
A quote from Jenny Offill’s story, “The Tunnel.”
You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.As we leave for Spain, this quote seems so apt. For any wanderer, really. And writer as well. … [Read more...]
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