“It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.”
-Keith Richards
Keith Richards turns an immortal 71 today. I wrote this for him.
And for my dad. And for me.
Anais Nin said, “we write to taste life twice”, and I say that perhaps we write to taste it twice, and then read those words over and over to dine on life for the rest of our days. Perhaps we write to create appendages to things, and moments, and feelings already beautiful in their own right.
Oh mercy. It’s been forever, hasn’t it? Now that summer’s over, it’s much harder for me to find things to be grateful for. I kid, I kid. Here’s what I’ve got for ya: Continue reading
Oh. My. Summer. I’ve been enjoying it so fully that I’ve neglected to catalog it…
Firstly, I give you the one, the only: Nina Simone. She is often referred to as, “The High Priestess of Soul”. Is. she. ever. Nina was so inspired with the classical masterpieces of Bach that she aspired to become a classical pianist and in the process developed an original and distinctive sound. Continue reading
“Everybody’s wearing a disguise, to hide what they’ve got left behind their eyes.
But me, I can’t cover who I am.”
-Bob Dylan
{Exasperated and melodramatic sigh}
I finally finished all of my chores and can At Last sit down to relish in some time to myself to think about my charmed life. Continue reading
-Fraulein Maria
The Sound of Music is one of my very most cherished and favorite movies. For awhile I put in on every Sunday as I was getting ready for church. I watched it today with the little peanuts I nanny and even they seemed mesmerized at times by its charm. (What good is being a nanny if you can’t indoctrinate the little people into having good taste?)
“You don’t have to say anything. But you have got to mean everything.”
-John McCauley
So. Often on this space, I’ve taken it upon myself to delicately muse about the different fibers of my being… My sister, my penchant regard for heartstrings, my cherished tastebuds, etc. And although I’ve already born testimony about my kindred-like affinity for music… I’m not even a little afraid of repetition.
-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
Today I was listening to my go-to Sunday music, the Original London Cast recording of “the seminal Broadway classic” Les Miserables. Ohhhh how my heart beats for everything Les Mis. I was first introduced to it when I was about five years old. Continue reading
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