I've got some sort of bug that has me fevered and coughy and sneezy and drippy. a couple more and I could do a snow white remake.
I spent Friday in bed and think I might do the same today ... luckily, my upholstery class was cancelled due to school holidays.
I'm bummed because I was s'posed to go to Paris this week-end for a 'fiancaille' (engagement) celebration for JY's daughter. Instead ... well, see above :-(
It has been a rather mundane week. I thought it was shaping up for fun ... I had 2 lunch dates and the weather was nice.
both lunch dates fell through and I can only gaze longingly at the weather from my window ...
wah-wah-wah!
otoh, it is only a cold. I will survive. here's to next week hurrying here...
PS-any of my readers more savvy with French traditions like the fiancaille ... hit me up with some ideas for a cool yet traditional gift ... she's only 25 so make it hip ... xx
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- Non Je Ne Regrette Rien
- France
- I'm a somewhat contrary woman who, in March of 2008, decided to leave corporate life behind and pursue a dream. The resulting misadventures are documented here, as I reinvent my life in France. On a side note, I write as I speak ... lots of run-on sentences, misapplied ellipses and unexpectedly plentiful parenthetical pauses. This is unlikely to change.
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- up to my neck in alligators, I mean potential proj...
- mother nature is a tart and a tease.
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une poésie écrite pour moi.
Air Born.
Is on a bridge above the clouds, is air born
Is Marie Marvingt in a biplane, humming Gnome spitting oil
Shuddering wires, the church spires
Bleriot looking up, his felt hat black
An ant, a speck of coal
They take your bags and scan them
You hire a car, this was the dream and now
You've simply gone too far to be lost in self doubt
There is only the impending, compelling, spinning propelling how
The distance leaves a wispy trail, the turning of the wheel
the Fata Morgana highway, cloudward on the Millau
And therefore you must go on, therefore you must
Embrace every moment, not like hired help checking coats
Not like the mud-locked fisherman staring though unknowing,
Envy-filled at a parade of powered boats,
But eyes full of sky.
-Jonathon Grimes
Is on a bridge above the clouds, is air born
Is Marie Marvingt in a biplane, humming Gnome spitting oil
Shuddering wires, the church spires
Bleriot looking up, his felt hat black
An ant, a speck of coal
They take your bags and scan them
You hire a car, this was the dream and now
You've simply gone too far to be lost in self doubt
There is only the impending, compelling, spinning propelling how
The distance leaves a wispy trail, the turning of the wheel
the Fata Morgana highway, cloudward on the Millau
And therefore you must go on, therefore you must
Embrace every moment, not like hired help checking coats
Not like the mud-locked fisherman staring though unknowing,
Envy-filled at a parade of powered boats,
But eyes full of sky.
-Jonathon Grimes
rencontrez mes héroïnes et héros
- Miller and Linda Fuller, founders of Habitat for Humanity and The Fuller Center for Housing
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a dream of equality for all
- Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Visionary for a Poverty-Free World
- Kiva, Loans that Change Lives
- Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Nobel Laureate.
- Motaz Azaiza, Palestinian Photojournalist
5 comments:
Get well soon!
By the time you finish up with your cold, my feet should be on French terra firma...
Maybe your traumatic experience with the car wreck led to your illness. Feel better soon
Depends how well you know her tastes, but I notice among friends' kids they like a subscription to a magazine or newspaper that goes on for ever.
"Startin' trouble" is all I needed! I just stumbled upon your blog and I think I've found a kindred spirit. I'm anxious continue following. I've gone back to your beginning (best place to start) and though I haven't read it all, our stories are similar. Love it and get better. My Rx...red wine and chocolat
hope you feel better soon.
Italian friend says the best cure is a bottle of red wine (although I think its more that you just don't care how ill you are afterwards!).
Take care
Eli
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