Tag: Love

• June 23, 2012

  Good marriages can’t be thrown away

  Imagine that a marriage is falling apart and that the disaffected demands of the other, “How can you throw away what we’ve worked so long and hard for–how after all these years together, and for what?” Suppose that these questions are not simply expressions of sorrow and imminent grief. Suppose that the questions are asked…
• June 15, 2012

  Love, shift, and sustainability

  An 11 minute conversation with Jackie Bergman from this past Tuesday morning. In the Conservatory Garden of Central Park, he and I talk about love, shift, and sustainability. What is most telling about the conversation is how it becomes a performance piece in the art of love. Enjoy. *
• May 22, 2012

  A pastoral dirge

  Dearest A, My god what a beautiful day. On leaves with filtered light, goddess spiders, succulent wine and caressed notes. Words just don’t suffice. Merci mon beau ami for being in my life. Love, C * Unspeakably beautiful our day together. Thank you, dearest C. And how lovely your new picture. More tomorrow once my…
• May 4, 2012

  Being in love with living

  Over dinner last night she spoke of being in love with living. This morning there is no mist surrounding the hilltop, no rain falling on the opal rocks. The sun is neither out nor hiding and the trees are looking calm. There is a calmness to the morning, our final one here, a steadiness that…
• April 28, 2012

  ‘My sad smile corrects her’

  Joan’s PET scan came back negative. The doctors don’t know what the spot on her lung is. Maybe just a scar. Joan turned 89 the week before last. Today she said, “Eight-year-olds are such a marvel. They see and say so much.” We drank champagne on her birthday and, with her two sons and also…