“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther King Jr.
22 Apr 2015
Browsing category: Memories
21 Apr 2015
If you have not yet explored the thing of beauty know as The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, you are in for a treat.The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for. I am a little bit in love with this word and its meaning: Avenoir - the desire to see memories in advance We take it for granted that life moves forward. But you move as a
26 Mar 2015
This Small Pleasures 90 second video from The School of Life is a beautiful vignette of some of the many beautiful things that being alive brings for us. Enjoy! Oh, and please remember to acknowledge (and thank) the small pleasures that creep into to your life today and for all your days on this planet
02 Mar 2015
One of my two amazing nieces is a very talented artist. She finishes high school this year and has been accepted into a very prestigious design school in the United States. She is working on a series of portraits where she places people in a context that captures their state of mind – or their essence. This is a portrait she did of me and it’s called Memories of Africa. The leaves are cut out of a copy of the novel, The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith. If you haven’t read this book it tells stories about