After Careful Consideration
When the first day of spring arrives I think of love. Not the kind of romantic love and gift giving that permeates on Valentines Day but about how I approach something for the first time. I feel...
View ArticleEternal Spring
I will never forget the first spring I experienced in Europe. I was so elated, I felt like I was going to burst from the lush green beauty I witnessed everywhere. Here and now after a much-needed...
View ArticleExposure
It’s never too late to share a good thing. I enjoy blogging about experiences, whether they are mine or someone else’s as long as they are intelligent, and not mundane they hold value. I recently...
View ArticleIt’s 1969 again
July has been a social month for me. Some of my haunts included the Waldorf Astoria Rooftop, that I mentioned in a previous post, the international Sofitel Hotel for Jazz, dancing and fun on Bastile...
View ArticleA Craft of Love
I recently met a group of neighbors. I sat next to the city Mayor but it was the woman seated on the other side of me who teaches at Pasadena City College (PCC) that asked me about writing. I...
View ArticleYou’re Out of Sight
Swan I finally had a chance to see Fearless Fashion Rudi Gernreich at the Skirball Cultural Center. https://www.skirball.org/exhibitions/fearless-fashion-rudi-gernreich Sorry, DP I went without you. I...
View ArticleWe find ourselves in the sea
In Herman Hesse’s ‘Siddhartha,’ the son of a Brahmin in ancient India, leaves his home on a quest of spiritual illumination that takes him far and long, across the river and back. In Antoine de...
View ArticleNothing Fake about You
I love fashion, I always have. I learned to negotiate by telling my father how advantageous it would be for him if I had more in my closet. It would enhance his image and please me. I remember he got...
View Article19th-century romantic, Puccini
I’ve seen more “Bohèmes” than any reasonable person needs to in a lifetime, but, last Saturday’s opening of the 2019/ 2020 Opera season production of La Boheme proved gripping, and was a revelation....
View ArticleThe heat is on
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Words from another Libra. I...
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