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A Big Magic Kahuna with Creative Content
2 books bring Big Magic and deserve recognition for their ability to take on complex subjects and explain them so concisely, featured on Art Is Everywhere.
Citronelle & Food Art
Did I mention that my husband and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary once at Citronelle? Yes, but I never posted this when we had our special Leap Year celebration, which happens every four years in addition to our regular anniversary. We were married the French way — civil service (on Leap Year) with a Church Blessing* later (in April). As it just so happens, Citronelle, with all its glorious food-art was featured in my March issue of Veranda magazine. Here are Michael Richard’s exquisite culinary compositions below. That meal and City Zen, recently, both rank high on our list of memorable, albeit expensive, occasions. If I had only known…
The Creative Genius
I have read, Eat, Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert and I thought it was entertaining and descriptive about her reflective journey, which in many ways might parallel the creative process of artists finding their way toward production. But since I have long been fascinated by the creative process, I think her next, new book, will have much more substance. She is really onto something here in her lecture at the TED Conference. I have long thought that there is divine inspiration in the creative output. Sometimes that flash of inspiration just can’t be explained. If we can accept that there is a mystery, greater than ourselves guiding us, then the…
