Random thoughts and ideas from the last year.
-While pouring hot water for tea, my favorite cup gets a dark line down the side and the liquid bleeds through. It is this kind of cold that defines Kyoto, I suppose. And who knew porcelain cups could crack?
-Declaration of Independence as Dear John letter.
-With all the bottled vitamins and pills, the medicine cabinet looked like Neil Peart’s drum kit.
-Social media is like 1000 voices shouting in an empty room.
-It was August, the month that Buddhist priests actually earn their living.
-The
delight I take in closing the shutters at night, always spending a few
moments out on the darkened patio, the light now shut in by ancient
painted wood. So many stars here. Their number is rivaled by the
blinking lights of planes, of satellites, always in a hurry. Why such a
rush, when surrounded by such beauty? (France)
-Even
in France I long for France. Barely engaged with the outside world,
didn't even dine out once. I wasn't really in the mood for moneyed
chic Riviera France. I wanted quieter meals in the villages and towns
up in the country. But I knew from the number of ambulating tourists
that I'd had to dodge in the narrow lanes of Ramatuelle
that it wasn't the right year for it. Instead I passed long mornings
out on the terrace and read, until the heat bullied me indoors. My
reading led me to Paris, and its writers and painters of the 1920s. And
introduced me to the familial bohemian scene at the Vila America, an
hour's drive from here in Antibes.
-The S&M quality to election slogans: "Allow me the privilege of being chosen to be your next abuser."
-Near to where birds sang…
On the turntable: The Shadows, "Reunited"
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