February 25, 2018 (056/365) "Creativity is always a leap of faith. You are faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage." - Julia Cameron
Week 9 - CREATIVE: Forsaken #dogwoodweek9, #dogwood52, #dogwood2018 • f/1.8, 1/33, ISO25
"In memory of the children of this nursery school and the students of the neighborhood of the Place des Vosges who were deported from 1942 to 1944 because they were born Jewish, innocent victims of Nazi barbarism in complicity with the Vichy government. More than 11,400 children were deported from France, 500 of whom lived in the 4th arrondissement. They were exterminated in the death camps. Let us never forget them."
February 24, 2018 (055/365)
"The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it." - Mary E. Pearson
February 23, 2018 (054/365)
Last year, I celebrated my 50th birthday with a cocktail at the Bar Hemingway in the Paris Ritz. This year, I'm once again celebrating a milestone anniversary -- 50 years ago, my parents adopted me. This is my first "Gotcha Day" missing both Mom and Dad, but, as Ernest Hemingway once said, “No one you love is ever truly lost.”
February 22, 2018 (053/365) "Paris is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail." - Edmund White
[...and after 25,323 steps, 10 miles, and 13 flights of stairs, these walkers earned a lovely glass of rosé and a macaron or two in this charming café.
February 21, 2018 (052/365)
"It is late at night, and someone across the way is playing La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses,' and it says everything I feel. " - Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina
