Because love is more than zero, it is the opposite of zero, it is everything. When you love the world loves with you. Didn't someone famous say that? At any rate, I found something else to love. (Perhaps fickleness is a detrimental side-effect of love? And do you notice, as I did because I had to use spellchecker, that word det-ri-mental? It actually comes from the middle english/latin and means "loss" but as an adjective it looks more like a state-of-being, a place inside your mind.)
So here is where my fickle heart resides this morning:
Okay, my blogging skills are a bit thin - click to read this NYTimes blog
You rock, Maira Kalman.
I'd like to interview you and ask your favorite dessert and peek in your closet and run my hands over your paints and brushes.
Next Stop, Grand Central was a favorite of Wylie's for years. How could it not be? Rhyming, trains, New York?
Maira Kalman has an ear for the outrageous and a heart for the disenfranchised. There is nothing of loss and everything of mental spark.
Maira Kalman is the opposite of zero.
**I had forgotten that she redid The Elements of Style.
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I am so stealing that link and putting it on FB. (I'll be sure and name you as the fabulous source.) Thanks for sharing that--I was formerly unaware of her talent and will now be looking for it.
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