” your smile spreads across your face like a butterfly “ The Postman is a film , a graceful masterpiece , based on the true events of a transformative friendship between a shy postman and the exiled poet , Pablo Neruda . It is a moving tribute to the power and beauty…Read more »

Plovdiv :  Historic city situated between Rhodope  Mountains, ( legendary homeland of Orpheus )  the Thracian Plains and the Balkan Mountain range. One of the worlds most ancient cities and Europes oldest inhabited city. A slightly dilapidated place with a beautiful sense of fading grandeur. Yesterday, I travelled on my own to Plovdiv by mini-bus.…Read more »

Isaiah 61 : 1 – 3   ” The Spirit of The Lord God is upon me , for The Lord hath anointed me to tell good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted , to proclaim liberty to the captives , and the opening ( of…Read more »

When we first met that late summer day on the beach of the small harbor town I had moved to with my five young children, he surprised me with his smile and asked my name and the year I was born. I answered and he responded with a very calm manner like a european gentleman,…Read more »

Sleep is baffling. It holds my fascination because of the dreams : mystical doorways to inner-worlds.There are many stories of people having great creative break thrus in their dreams : Paul McCartney’s beautiful tune for “Yesterday”….Elias Howe’s invention of the sewing machine and the haunting poems of Edgar Allen Poe who suffered from dreams we…Read more »

I was in love with him the moment I saw him. I tried not to be. I left the island and him six months later. That was three years ago. Some days I see the answer and think I understand and other days it feels like the seasons became mixed up, like a day that…Read more »

He was born in 1947 in Brazil to devout catholic parents and attended , as a boy, Jesuit schools. He was a rebellious teenager and his father committed him to an asylum three times. In the 70’s, he wrote song lyrics for Brazilian musicians protesting the countries military rule being jailed numerous times and tortured.…Read more »

In his youth, Orlando is told never to grow old, miraculously , he never does.  The film is about a person who achieves in one lifetime what most of us can only dream of doing : seeing four centuries of experiences thru the eyes of both sexes. It’s not so much about a story or…Read more »

Perfection of Divine Creation : the mathematics of Beauty  The Golden Mean spiral is a doorway that weaves the ethereal and material dimensions together. Once you discover this in nature it will become evident even in the smallest details. Look at a sunflower, a shell or a pine cone. It is also called Sacred Geometry.…Read more »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT7_IZPHHb0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMTuXnLiZ2k She hung a print above my bed of a girl with a very long neck, an oblong face and eyes deep and black. The artist, Modigliani , remains one of my favorites today. Everything in my bedroom matched. She chose tiny yellow flowered wallpaper along with the same printed curtains. A bed, dresser, mirror…Read more »