Love Notes

I've decided that the early weeks of November leading up to Thanksgiving are for thinking.  Borrowing from Linus in the Charlie Brown Christmas special, I’ve been pondering, "What is this Thanksgiving season really all about?"  (This secular epistle will set aside religion, although I've been thinking about faith a lot lately too).   

Perhaps Thanksgiving is about connectedness - between family, friends and community.  And pilgrims and native Americans.   Who did a pretty darn good job setting the standard for neighborliness.  

I imagine you’ve got family and friends and giving thanks pretty well covered for this week, so I’m going to turn our little Love Note monocle on community.    READ MORE

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There's something so tender about the early evening in a city, when the streets dim and windows begin to glow, revealing little vignettes of life inside.   A woman with an apron at her kitchen sink.  A lamp turned on beside a favorite chair.  A flicker of warmth from a fireplace.

I came across the photograph above and couldn't stop staring. 

I couldn't stop staring  ...  and imagining.  It's got to be Paris right?  What is the woman with the apron making for dinner?  Gougères I bet.  Yum, my favorite.  Who does the leg in the window above her belong to?  Her son or daughter?  Or a stranger in another apartment?  Or a perhaps a handsome stranger she'll fall in love with in the film adaptation spinning about in my head.  What scent does our undoubtedly beautiful apron-clad protagonist wear?  It has to be French, of course.  It's turns out to be the leg-man's mother's signature scent too, and that's how they strike up a conversation in the elevator.  READ MORE

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