We expect possibly ten days of rain upcoming, so I took the afternoon to wander Montmartre, in the area that was our stomping ground on the last trip here. It is such a fine nook, a little village.
Found the shop with the incredible Moroccan mint tea that I used so sparingly back in NYC until [...]
Begun for Macdowell Colony dispatches, continued as an experiment in being other than I am (or at least stretching boundaries regarding self-exposure), and no end in sight…
Thank you dear blog, thank you dear readers.
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Here are two favorite passages from a poem not yet published,
or I would include the whole poem. Soon enough.
After A Rain
by Mary R
They noticed, you see, that I was a noticing
kind of person, so they left the dictionary
out in the rain and I noticed it,
I noticed that it was open to the rain page,
much harm [...]
The two Alexandreas said I looked glamorous, no make-up, sneaking out to send my email…I felt like a Joni Mitchell album cover.
This morning I hear a car pull in front of my studio. It must have been the door slamming shut that woke me. Feet crunch closer and then a knock at my door. No one is allowed to visit another’s studio uninvited. I think “Yay! They’ve come to deliver wood!” I’ve been out for a [...]
the gorgeous bicycle i rode once, the antique shoe-leather having done unmentionable things to unmentionable parts! That is the hand-painted lunch basket arrives on my doorstep each day…
a few shots of the tour of the grounds I had yesterday. It was three hours, just like Gilligan’s, and full of good stories, history of this place [...]