Blessings for the new year

A year of peace for our tortured planet
May we think of the future and smile
Remember what we have and be glad
Love each other's soul
And breathe quietly

And may our labours bear many fruit, just like the lusciously red, juicy pomegranate.

That clever SOB

Managed to write a great film, a real pleasure to spend 2 hours in the midst of this creation - Vicki Christina Barcelona is so well written, and so beautifully filmed. I don't like Woody Allen anymore, after he just couldn't resist picking his next woman from his own dining room table and convincing himself it was all in good taste, I couldn't laugh at his jokes anymore.
Nevertheless I had a great time and I end up thinking if I could ever have managed to live the life of such high drama - love, art, changing partners and countries and all that. I sort of did, for a while, and it was exhostingly interesting and fun. But now that I'm older and not much wiser? don't know. I suspect you can't do things like that when you have kids to consider.

New Quote

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe

Visitors

Today was a day to record. I didn't. But I wish I had recordings of the conversations I had with my visitors today.

One man told me how he and his brother blew their inheritance while their mother was still alive and very sick, on sending her with her best friend of 75 years to a grand world tour cruise on the QE. She died a month after it ended. I implored him to write this wonderful heartwarming story to share with the world. It never occurred to him.

My favorite Canadian grandmother, 82 and counting, invited me to the opening of her art show. And she bought the only item I had for a woman in the shop - a full length fabulous dress coat. She looked so sharp in it, it was irresistible.

My favourite opera singer told me of his latest work, "War and Peace". They sing in Russian. I don't think I'll attend when they open...

And this lovely young lady completely blew me away by telling me she's a minister's daughter. I just had to take her picture...

Look At Me

"I wish men would stil dress this way" one visitor said of this costume.

New Quote

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Robert Musil - The Man without Qualities

I just got the second volume of this enormous book. I read the first volume many years ago, in Hebrew, and couldn't find the second at the time. I wonder if it will be as much a pleasure to read as it was when I was younger. At the time I fell in love with the man without qualities, who was so very charming, as with Musil's writing.

"...Man needs no more for his happiness; for what one achieves is what moulds the spirit, whereas what one wants, without fulfillment, only warps it. So far as happiness is concerned it matters very little what one wants; the main thing is that one should get it."

Dear Fred

Fred Astaire is the inspiration for my shop sign, and here he is in all his glory.

Dylan Thomas Reading a Poem

Click on the title to get there.




here's a picture of his writing shed - imagine that life.