Still Talking about Authenticity, At a Certain Age. . .

Before we went travelling, I wrote a post onAuthenticity at a Certain Age, particularly as that authenticity pertained to friendship. Some of you question the word itself, “authenticity” being so elusive and/or problematic to establish,…

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Random Reading: Plant Life and Paris Romance

I’m going to post these excerpts from “my other blog” here because they’re about books and I think I’d like to keep that material together here rather than just including a link. Hope you don’t…

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Saturday Seven . . . Delivering Happiness and Books and Film . . .

Feeling a bit scattered right now. A few too many ambitions and projects and commitments, and I haven’t quite figured how to get my head above it all long enough to achieve some coherence. But…

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Liminal Fictions — George Saunders’ Bardo and Ali Smith’s Winter

Almost two months since I last published here,  and before that I began this post. At first, I only got as far as drafting a title and importing the photo below.  A few days later,…

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More Lyon: A Page from my Travel Journal

The frustration involved in sketching this page — which I’m now quite pleased with — doesn’t show, unless you notice the murky marks of erasure, the dirt that’s adhered to hand oils after too much…

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