Where can I flee from your presence?

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139 – my favourite psalm. =)

Too much Edith Wharton

me: I am greatly perplexed as to the location of this pen…
tim: (pointing) neh!
oh, right.

You & I

we’re like two pebbles, smoothed by the sea and each other.
i don’t know why anyone would think otherwise.

Luisa

When I read about the Marchesa Luisa Casati, the eccentric Italian socialite whose life and legacy are the inspiration for Georgina Chapman’s line “Marchesa”, I went absolutely nuts for her. Here was a woman who took her life’s motto very seriously indeed – I want to be a living work of art, said she and [...]

two to love

It was hard to say when exactly winter arrived. The decline was gradual, like that of a person into old age, inconspicuous from day to day until the season became an established relentless reality. First came a dip in evening temperatures, then days of continuous rain, confused gusts of Atlantic wind, dampness, the fall of [...]

Again and again and again and again

“How kind of you to let me come.” – Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle
Remember – Always be a lady.

Dance Dance

Hello faithful patrons of my faithless, erratic blog!
Here’s to a wonderful Sunday afternoon whiled away in a Christmassy coffeehouse (oh you know the one) with toffee nut lattes heralding Christmas for some, Joy tea for others and yuletide muzak for all.
And then, (please don’t tell me I’m the only one) my favourite trick for wasting [...]

The Beholder as Artist

We would like to go and see the field that Millet…shows us in his Springtime, we would like Claude Monet to take us to Giverny, on the banks of the Seine, to that bend of the river which he hardly lets us distinguish through the morning mist. Yet in actual fact, it was the mere [...]

Cat

One of my many running lists of names is called “Names for my cat”, but since I don’t have a cat and won’t be having one in the forseeable future, this is very much a wishful thinking list. Cats are such elegant, haughty, mysterious creatures that I find them much funner to name than dogs. [...]

Bus

I saw a bus that was majorelle blue this morning. No one aboard that bus might have known that it sported such a legendary hue much less paid any attention to the colour of the bus they were boarding but still, it made me smile.