Monday, May 4, 2020

“Lazy, voluptuous stretching is the best form of exercise, nude, in a room full of flowers."

Diane von Furstenberg’s 1976 “Book of Beauty,”

Sunday, April 26, 2020

How many times have you noticed that it’s the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?
                                    - Fred Rogers

Thursday, November 14, 2013



Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.” 
Astrid Lindgred

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Friday, May 27, 2011

Basically, there's three grabbers, three taggers, five twig runners, and a player at Whackbat. Center tagger lights a pine cone and chucks it over the basket and the whack-batter tries to hit the cedar stick off the cross rock. Then the twig runners dash back and forth until the pine cone burns out and the umpire calls hotbox. Finally, you count up however many score-downs it adds up to and divide that by nine.

Wes Anderson - Fantastic Mr. Fox 

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Alice is the cleverest baby in the world because she can eat yogurt with a fork. It's true!
- Tom

Monday, January 10, 2011

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
- Robert Frost