Month: August 2016
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1988 First Brocante
At the first brocante I ever went to years ago I found a postcard of a woman impeccably dressed carrying eggs in a basket, water from the fountain in a zinc watering can, and carrying vegetables in her white crisp…
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What Would You Do?
"Land for sale in the heart of Paris, where the Eiffel Tower will be built…" That was what the article said in the massive 1854 book full of newspaper articles, some of them written by Balzac. French…
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A Saturday Afternoon in Lorgues
The language of color do you know how to speak it? Those facades! How that must have been a conversation: What color should we paint our house? And the shutters? Language of color: Pop. Splash. Outside the lines.…
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Growing in Each Other’s Garden
Over twenty years we have known one another, and yet at times I feel I don't know him at all. He will say something, or do something that I have never heard or seen him do before. As if he…