Scaling Paris
All that blue stuff wrapped around monuments will need to wait. Sitting across from a Dutch couple (ok he was and she was an American who spoke better Dutch than I did) in a French Read More …
Month: October 2023
Try Resist Small Town France
The double walls of the house at number 2 conceal a corridor. The woman guiding us through the house where she now lives shows us the hidden tunnels and the passageways used during the Second Read More …
Light And Dark are Alike
Passing through a field of sunflowers we enter into the city of Arles. The Roman amphitheater is a few centuries older than the stages for the Van Gogh paintings and provides more than focus to Read More …
The Art of the River Valley
Scattered on the hilltops and in the valleys along the Rhone and Soanne are stories of aesthetic and ascetic experience. Mountaintop experiences of ordinary living with extra-ordinary devotion. The Semang Monastery, restored and captured in Read More …
Look what 5 Euros Gets You!
The image of the Pont Gard on the 5 Euro note is both a reminder and acknowledgment of history. The bridges was part of the construction of the 50 km aqueduct to carry water to Read More …
The Pope is In
The silk woven wall tapestry (3m x 10m) created by Eva Jospin decorates the wall in the restored hall of the popes. It is hard to imagine that we sat down to dinner in the Read More …
Couch Conch
The secret is not in the bag! Chocolate lovers beware. The unbleached burlap sacks move Cacao beans around the world. From first sighting in Santa Ana Ecuador in 3500 BCE to the dark chocolate found Read More …
That Picks
Somewhere between nasal drip and an extruded nose there is a moment of whimsy, a recall of earlier days. (Somewhere on Route 66 Hedicus is still sneezing on Michael’s ashes). Just after lunch as we Read More …
The Art of Dancing
The “ring around the rosy” song emerges from memory as eyes pause on the multitude of collected images in the “Chateau de Cormatin.” In a gilded room an original painting dating to years before the Read More …
Bed Ridden
The gallery of beds, of tables, of curtains line the perimeter of the room. The emptiness a reminder of a long history. A long story told in a lifetime of chapters. The keys each a Read More …