Baguettes and Boulangeries
This past weekend I attended a weekend retreat with friends in this cute little cottage in Normandy. On the first morning while trying to cut into a crusty baguette left over from the… Continue reading
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Je Suis Charlie
It’s been a sad week. There’s no need to tell you why, I’m sure you know. Even though i’ve been in North America for the past several months, this week’s tragic events hit… Continue reading
Morning Pages Insights
In an earlier post, I dealt with the basics of the MORNING PAGES – a practice at the very heart of The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron.… Continue reading
A Crimson Grail
My Parisian friend , Charles, recently turned me on to some great minimalist music that I find helpful to play during my creatively spiritual moments. So, I thought I’d share it with you.… Continue reading
Morning Pages Basics
At the heart of The Artist’s Way self-help guide for (re)discovering your creativity, is what author, Julia Cameron calls the Morning Pages. …Put simply the morning pages are three pages of longhand writing,… Continue reading
The bells, Esmeralda, the bells!
Quasimodo will finally have new bells to ring. The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is getting a fresh new set of bells for its 850 birthday (read about them in detail here). They… Continue reading
A Complete Disaster…
…is what I would call the exhibit we went to on Sunday….that’s because the name of it was: Disaster: The End of Days…our first visit to the amazing new Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in… Continue reading
Guerrilla Beauty Update
Back in June I bought some ivy for this little nook in the entry way of our apartment building. (read about it here) I called it guerrilla beauty. I put the ivy there… Continue reading
Edward Hopper @ Paris
Finally made it to the Hopper Expo @ le Grand Palais…Paris after hearing about it from friends only stood in line for an hour and a half with Dutch friend Willemijn cold and… Continue reading
wow or un-wow
Paris le Grand Palais definitely a grand palace in Paris definitely a grand place in Paris even its name is grand and palatial to see it from the outside…it is grand the sculptures… Continue reading
Dreams
(upfront disclaimer : this is not about what you have during the night, but what you have during a lifetime.) This morning I took some time to daydream about my dreams. I slowly… Continue reading
Culte artistique au Temple du Marais
Sanan and I, along with our friend Mary, prepared the prayer installations for this beautiful worship. During 20 minutes of singing, people were invited take communion and to explore our tactile means of… Continue reading
Restos du Coeurs
For a few weeks now Sanan and I have been participating on a team that every Tuesday night provides a pretty good hot meal for about 100 people. The meal usually includes bread,… Continue reading
La Nuit Blanche 2010
Sanan and I passed La Nuit Blanche (see the wikipedia explanation) with about 10-12 friends from La Fonderie. Basically, it’s an evening where you visit a hundred or so art installations all over… Continue reading
Backward/Forward
This morning I woke up to a radio documentary about the coming of the smart engery grid in Europe. It excited me that there could be such an interconnectedness of systems, so that… Continue reading
The Church Next Door
Sanan and I decided to visit the church next door this Sunday morning. When the bells rang at 10h30(which are just outside our kitchen window) we walked around the corner, through the wooden… Continue reading