Always Ask: Why!
Musings
Hullo Fellow Travellers in the time of Covid
Have we changed? Are we the same people today? Why would we change? No reason, and yet …
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Discover The World
In 2018 I was given a journey of a lifetime – time in Kenya and Zimbabwe. It’s an experience I will always treasure and be grateful for. To see the animals and their majesty, to experience the gentleness and kindest of the people, is riches beyond what I ever imagined.
Thoughts of this and that ...
Books have always been part of my life. I have been an avid reader from early childhood, and have also had a career as a rare bookseller. I sort of fell into that career. My husband and I had arrived in San Franciso in 1971 and I was job hunting without success. I knew some languages, had worked at the Linguaphone Institute in London as an editor. But this was the (almost) Wild West. Eventually I was offered the job of an escort, and was discussing it’s merits with my husband when some friends came by and quickly explained the finer details of being an escort …
One day I did get a phone call: “… they need someone who likes to read and knows authors of books …” That was my entree via John Howell-Books into the rare book world, for which I am always grateful.
William Blake – a favorite poet whose grasp of language is forever inspiring and challenging.
Potato pickers by Vincent van Gogh. He shows me the world like no one else.
Initial P created in the New World late 1600s or early 1700s – love the joy and innocence!
… at one time I need to provide for my children and commercial real estate was the solution …