Sunday

Listening to my girls Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell, with some sprinkling of Diane Birch and Carly Simon, dreaming of green hilltops and meadows full of flowers, of a wreath of blooms for my head and sunshine bouncing off glasses of sparkling wine...

Found:

Corinne Bailey Rae - Paris Nights/ New York Mornings

Breakfast at Mickey's, make-up still on 
Elbows on the greasy table cloth 
One more coffee and one last cigarette 

Smiling at the rain cause you hold me close 
My best dress on underneath this old coat 
Walking down Bleecker no one is awake yet 

Still, seven hours 
Nothing but clouds 
It's enough to make your heart sigh 
We should try 
So pick me up and take me out 

Oo we crash into love-filled nights 
(Paris nights and New York mornings) 
Oo we race till we're out of time 
(Paris nights and New York mornings) 
And now that you've taken me up so high 
(Paris nights and New York mornings) 
Don't let me down 
Don't let me down 

I could see the lights from the restaurant 
I couldn't quite perfect that nonchalance 
Paris and champagne with one brown sugar cube 

And we danced while the band played "She's not there" 
Kissed me in the rain by the Rue Voltaire 
It's a perfectly good way to ruin those silk shoes 

Still, seven hours 
Nothing but clouds 
It's enough to make your heart sigh
We should try
For each other and for the lovers 


You change and you grow
But we were young
We were young and we didn't know
We didn't know

Oo we crash into love-filled nights
(Paris nights and New York mornings)
Oo we race till we're out of time
(Paris nights and New York mornings)
And now that you've taken me up so high
(Paris nights and New York mornings)
Don't let me down
Don't let me down 

And then, there's Estella

"...life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

'So,' said Estella, 'I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.' 

"The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I loved her nonetheless because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection."

"I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death."

- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

Stowaway Holly:

"I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.  I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. "

"Never love a wild thing.... If you let yourself love a wild thing,  you'll end up looking at the sky."

So, it's Argentina for Ms. Golightly.
I'm definitely adding her to my list of favorite girls.

quotes are from Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's

Daphne as the Runaway Bride, and vice versa

After a "eureka!" moment a couple of days ago, which happened while I was watching "Runaway Bride" for the 17th time, I am finally allowing myself to verbalize the idea that I have been toying with, since:

That my obsession with the movie and the myth are intertwined, in more ways than one.

photo from this site

In the end, Maggie Carpenter finds true love, and Daphne turns into a tree, both of which could very well stand for deliverance. 

And as for me, well, let's see.

reconnecting

with dear, old Joni