Bohemia: "To take the world as one finds it, the bad with the good, making the best of the present moment—to laugh at Fortune alike whether she be generous or unkind—to spend freely when one has money, and to hope gaily when one has none—to fleet the time carelessly, living for love and art..." Gelett Burgess 1866-1951
Okay so I did not get around to my list. Mine would be, Ring of Kerry and Cliffs of Moor, Ireland, the Art Institute of Chicago, Colorado Rockies, Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare sonnets, The Browning's poetry, Oban, Scotland and the highlands, Paris at night, Notre Dame cathedral, Nuremberg, one of my life cities, day or night. The spider who has woven the most magnificent web outside the gate, the Hancock building in Chicago, the Lincoln memorial, babies and my kids, Sean Connery and mussels in wine sauce at Patrick Punch's in Limerick, scones and clotted creme out of the back of a van on the cold east coast of Scotland at 6:00 in the morning when the sun is coming up, wearing a parka and drinking strong, hot tea with creme and sugar and hearing nothing but the wind and birds! The age old Gaelic conversations heard in a tiny pub and old hands, gnarled and browned by hard work and harder lives, yet still finding time to laugh, deep, from the gut. And chocolate.
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