Life is for Dancing

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

--George Balanchine

"Breadbaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells...there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread."

M. F. K. Fisher

The Art of Eating

“To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.”

--Laurie Colwin

I enjoy convalescence.

It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

~~George Bernard Shaw

William Faulkner

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing,

I would choose pain.”

Fatigue

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

~~Henri Matisse

Daydreaming

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

~~Anais Nin