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“The very least you can do in life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” – Barbara Kingsolver I have placed the word hope in hundreds of paintings. I love the sound of it, …
I’m walking with bare feet on very soft cool grass. The sun feels warm and so, so bright, almost Australian. Except when I look up I see soaring snow-capped mountains plunging into a massive lake. And there are tulips in flower-boxes, and people chattering in French. How did this happen? It’s Mary’s 23rd birthday and we have spent the …
“Gandalf: Well, all good stories deserve embellishment. You’ll have a tale or two to tell of your own when you come back. Bilbo Baggins: … Can you promise that I will come back? Gandalf: No. And if you do… you will not be the same.” ——————————————————————————- You wouldn’t know it to look at them, but my friends are dangerous. In …
Twenty minutes. That’s all I had from when I put the phone down to when I had to be there. Blair was leaving his shop in twenty minutes and I would have to wait 2 whole days if I didn’t make it in that tiny window of time. Blair is my framer. He’d just finished stretching an oil painting I …
Gregory, How could I have guessed that as a young girl of twenty four, marrying Greg Parker would turn my little life into some kind of epic Drama-Sitcom-Musical-Circus?! Twenty-eight years with you, young Parker, and I can certainly say that none of it has been boring. At each anniversary we used to joke that there was another ‘long, hard, painful …
My Lovely Friend and I were having the beautiful kind of conversation that introverts like me live for, the mutual sharing that bypasses small talk and gets straight to the heart of things. Then out of the blue, she asked The Question. The one I’d come to dread in the weeks and months following Greg’s death because I didn’t know how to …
“To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you’re limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realise that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.” –Nicole Krauss, the …
There is a kind of a fever in our household. Not the swine flu kind (though there was some of that a few months ago). Another kind of fever. A good kind. My niece is getting married. She’s little (4 foot nothing), clever (she’s just been admitted to the Bar and I mean the lawyery sort of bar), gorgeous (taxi-drivers-regularly-waive-their-charge …
I sat with my mother on the sofa and we both admired the fire. Mum said, “Quick, take a photograph of it, Malini! It’s so beautiful!” “Why don’t you take the picture, mum?” “Oh yes, I forgot, I’ve got a camera here and I can take photos too!” So we both sat, side by side, taking pictures of the fire, and …
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