Parisian Lifestyle & Love…
Anthony… Bourdain…
Entered… my consciousness…
My… orbit…
When I read… his best selling book in 2000…
“Kitchen… Confidential”…
I… was…
Besotted…
Recently… to my utter delight…. Anthony has been hosting “Anthony Bourdain… Parts Unknown”… for CNN…
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Spellbound….
By the… beauty….
Of the… glass art…
At… the…
“MURANO – FRAGILE”…
“Chefs-d’œuvre de verre de la Renaissance au XXIe siècle”…
Exhibition… at the…
Musée Maillol…
I was… reminded…
Of a… hazy morning…
In… Venice…
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Is…
Angela… Merkel…
Europe’s…
“Uncrowned… queen”?
Or… “Kaiser”?
Watching this unprepossessing woman regularly on one of the many French international channels… the short pleasantly plump woman… cuts an ordinary figure… more like a German “hausfrau”… than a powerful European leader…
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Keith… Haring’s…
Gigantic… works…
Were all over… the Metro walls…
Thought… provoking…
Riveting… posters… drawings…
Untitled painting by Keith Haring (1981)…Keith… would have been…
Pleased… delighted…
Having just visited Haring’s exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris… I too… was impressed by his formidable works… displayed not only in the Musée but also in the Metro… for that’s where it all started…
Read moreAudrey… Hepburn’s…
Amazing… eyes…
Were… gazing at me…
With…
That… look…
From the cover… of one of my favourite magazines…
Vanity… Fair…
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The new “religion”.. the new “faith”…
L.M.
Gary Zukav’s Soul Thought… Excerpt from the 17 April 2013 Newsletter…
How To Stop The Bombing
“The great sadness that enveloped the people of Boston and the participants in the Boston Marathon is the same great sadness that envelopes people everywhere in our global village. The two bombs that exploded in Boston, USA, killed three people and injured 176; the bomb that exploded on that same day in Mogadishu, Somalia, killed twenty people and injured more; and the twenty bombs that exploded on that same day across Iraq in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Tikrit, and three other cities killed 37 people and injured 140. One week earlier a bomb that exploded in rural Afghanistan killed 5 people, and on that same day an American airstrike – another bomb – killed 10 children. All of these bombings had the same cause, created the same effect, and forced the same question upon us…”
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Margaret Thatcher…
A… tribute…
To… a woman…
The… Iron Lady…
“Who was the only man in the cabinet”… Max Hastings…
“The woman… who saved Britain… 1925-2013″…
After Winston Churchill… Britain’s greatest WWII Prime Minister and war hero…
Lady Thatcher… was no doubt… Britain’s greatest peace time Prime Minister of modern history… if not of all time…
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“Le Brésil”…
Was… buzzing with…
“Inspiration Brésilienne”…
Excitement… Energy…
A… Mardi Gras…
A… Carnaval…
At the Bon Marché exhibition… in Saint Germain…
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S-o-o-o… impressed by…
Madonna…and… Angelina Jolie…
Patching up… their differences…
For a… worthy cause…
Angelina Jolie, 37… who criticised Madonna on the manner of adoption of her two children from Malawi… David Banda and Mercy James… showed an elegance and generosity of spirit by phoning the “Material Girl” to praise her efforts in helping Third World young women get an education.
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I was looking through the Women’s Forum’s “The Book” recently and a quote from one of the sessions at the 2012 Deauville “Global Meeting” conference, entitled “Can economic austerity be an opportunity for women?” caught my eye :
“In France, the dialogue between the government and the private sector is very poor. At the end of the day, it’s not surprising that the decisions taken by government are far from what the private sector expects.”
Given that this quote was uttered by Agnès Audier, Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group, and a highly respected professional who’s previously held senior advisory positions in both the private and public sector… she must know what she’s talking about. The next headline, further down the page, made me gulp even more: “In France, 90% of women entrepreneurs do not draw a salary”.
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