‘I really like it. It looks beautiful, the colours are lush and it’s a refreshing perspective on the world. I love the idea of excellent dates engaging with Pliny’s figs and mushrooms, your thought provoking note on innocence, and the concept of the songs of men deep in the heart of grape buds’ – Nicki
Oh you later travellers
I'm always touched by people connecting to us from the past, throwing their light into an unknown future in addressing, in a human and friendly way, people not even born. George Eliot and Charlotte Bronte do this by addressing readers directly, and you, reading 150...
Leaning into the light
The candour of this statement struck me, and also reassured me that my own paltry attempts at living a 'moral and compassionate existence' are no worse than can be expected of an average human in a human world. I accepted very young that questioning is part of being...
A banquet breakfast
I like detailed descriptions of meals and picnics. Here Steinbeck sets down in detail a stupendous and outrageously over-rich breakfast laid before him and Robert Capa on their travels in Ukraine. Remember, this was a country which had suffered one of the world's...
Joyeuse Fête des Muguets
Two things to share today, both lily-related. I first heard of the 'Fête des muguets'...
Of perfect summer mornings
Being a madrugadista, I love descriptions of the magic hours of daylight before the world...
The tempests of change
This seems a lesson in authenticity. Those occasional moments when you say, do or think...
To live is the rarest thing
A touching reminder by Oscar Wilde, a complex character, that we are here to live,...
On working alone
Adam Nicolson's description of working alone resonated with me, as I have also nearly always...
Hone your senses
An unexpected reason to take up the arts, it sharpens your appreciation. Among other things,...
These days of September
A surprising insight by the author of All Quiet on the Western Front. You will...
Of cake and roses
I recently celebrated a birthday. We drove into Geneva for a walk around the old...
One last game
Having given birth to cubs, Tarka's mate goes her own way. But before they part...
A perfect process
My kind of decision-making process, superbly succinct and balanced. Not sure how much I live...
Lent lilies and swallows’ time
A delicious description of the days of mid-April, when the wild narcissus, known as 'lent...
My kind of civilization
You can spend a lot of time thinking about civilization and whether it has a...
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