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 2026-11-04 11:00 UTC by Corey
 A shift is in the tide.
A different shade on the horizon. Voices carrying shape and size
Voices heard in various ancestral language And somewhere,
in these shades of blue,
a rise in the deep, natural, healing, current. A wave can change the shoreline.
But it doesn’t reshape it overnight. What has begun must keep... Read the whole entry... »
 An elephant and a donkey (1900s) that I found at the brocante, part of the French crèche (nativity set in French.) Aren’t they adorable? Oh symbolism: “An artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind.” Via the... Read the whole entry... »
 Did you know how many tiles (tuiles, carreaux, malons, pottery…) my village produced in a year? Give a wild guess. A wilder guess! It is so shocking, that my exaggerating storytelling habits do not need to be expressed. I still can’t believe it myself. If you walk around our village, you can still see the huge 4 old kilns. They stop... Read the whole entry... »
Halloween
2026-11-01 11:00 UTC by Corey How many trick-or-treaters did you have? The street in front of our house has been completely torn up because of a broken water pipe. There are detour signs preventing cars from using the street, so I really didn’t expect to have many trick-or-treaters this year. Halloween was never really a thing in France, but every year it seems to... Read the whole entry... »
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 Looking through a box at an antique textile shop that I love — a shop that has been around for as long as I’ve lived in France — my eyes caught an aubergine toile de Jouy. It was in a very tattered state, but I was immediately smitten. You could say it’s my Chanel. Many textile collectors know that old quilts can hold extraordinary... Read the whole entry... »
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