December 2011

entrer dans les détails

“The secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life and elevating them to art.”                                               William Morris Especially when considered in isolation, a detail can be a […]

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la nouvelle année

“If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” Mother Teresa The whispering of falling rain, like the spirits of the dead, were the only sounds I heard as I walked though Oradour-sur-Glane, a small village in the Limousin region of France.  From the underground museum of

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Perfume

“ A badly perfumed woman doesn’t have a future.“: Paul Valéry Who would have thought that the last living relative of the family who started the perfume business in Grasse, France, and whose company created Chanel No. 5, is alive and well and living in the southeast corner of the Gers? I had no idea

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