but we just had a fabulous hot kitchen disco inside while it snowed beautifully outside : these assholes — and my GOD are they utterly awful, unedifying, worthless, putridly detestable ASSHOLES —— cannot ruin everything
please tell me how you are doing
I have just found your site so I am doing- fabulously.
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Why did you wait so long / How did you find it / What are you liking ?
Willkommen
I make sure I don’t get too stressed, it won’t help anyone. I do what I can, and if anyone reading this wishes to help, Victoria from Bois de Jasmin recently wrote a post how to support Ukraine, any bit will help. She urges the readers to notice beauty as something that can’t be destroyed. Kitchen disco in the snow is one of those things!
I fell in love with a fragrance, in a way that I did once or twice, Hasu-no-Hana. The other two of the Grossmith trio are really beautiful as well. Wishing you well, and your voice also helps!
Hash no Hana – so golden and powdery with that oddly medicinal note. A great cocoon for these times.
I CAN’T BELIEVE TRUMP HAS SIDED WITH PUTIN – oh sorry, yes I can because he is probably (literally ) a Russian agent.
Kitchen disco while it snows outside is joy. Thank you, and thank you for the lovely video.
I’m struggling, but trying to focus on being kind and finding the joys in small things. There are days when I weep and close my door and just try not to share my sadness, anger and frustration with everything. I check up on people, and Go to work, lather, rinse repeat.
Your writing is amazing. Beautiful, soaring, sly and sexy, dark and weary, but always fascinating, Know that you have strangers out in the void, wishing you well, and finding comfort and inspiration in your words. Be well.
You too.
This was very gratifying to read – thank you; I should write rather than hide away
I have not been doing too good since the assholes took over the country. Trump, Vance and Muskrat must be stopped and all should be in prison. They have completely destroyed America and all who live in it. I am also disgusted with the stupid idiots who voted for him despite his miserable presidency the first time.
The disgust is impossible to feel. They are VILE
First, I must say that the snowfall at your home was beautiful! I was under the impression that spring was in force, but snow can be sneaky.
And then as to the current world situation….I wake up in the morning, wondering what horror the current administration has wrought overnight. It is a constant swirl of chaos (on purpose) mixed with a singular lack of concern for the people of the United States and across the globe. My cynicism has pervaded into all things Trump. Accumulating personal Power and money are his only concerns.
The fact that the chaos IS real and obviously very GLEEFULLY deliberate – pointless and just vandalistic thuggery – my god how I hate them – is what makes the news such a cortisol filled stress fest every day – when i am already off work for stress and anxiety … I need to tread carefully
I can never comment for some reason so trying again. Faithful reader xxx
You just have !
I am painting – it’s my version of fiddling while Rome burns. We seem to be going back into the Dark Ages so let’s try and illuminate them with Art. I believe that Good will always triumph over Evil, but it will never get rid of it. I try not to put more hate into a world already full of it. x
We will pass by the Unspeakable Synthetic Blonde across the Atlantic with his miserable Gang of Hyena’s. I see him enough on TV as it is!!!
Small blessings.
I took part in an over 15.000 Women’s Pride March. It felt so good, especially seeing the young ones marching along.
My friend Alejandra Ortiz, a mexican transwoman/refugee was one of the speakers. She was GoOD! Alas, speaking in public is not everyone’s cup of tea. I am sooo tired of all those slogans about a lot of -isms!
It was good to be together and parade through the center of Amsterdam, getting a lot of applause. Now my 79-old calves ache! Manana.
Your snowy video is the only snow so far here! I oine.
Remember bicycling through a snowfall withsnowy eyelashes. I felt like I was ten again, full of wondrous ecxitement
I wonder how many years he’s taking off people’s lives, with the stress and constant over-alertness? I keep having the first line of that Chris Isaak song running through my mind – ‘The world was on fire’, but the next line is ‘and no-one could save me but you’ and I keep realising that there’s no ‘you’ to save me. Yesterday I picked through thousands of samples looking for Ganymede, and this trivial pursuit distracted me for a few hours – but I felt almost ashamed to be taking time out of monitoring the nightmare. Enjoy the snow while it’s there. We’ll get through this. We will.
xxx
I am ambivalent about joining the municipal fire department, mostly out of the department having a bad reputation. I am also enjoying the weather and waiting for a “flood” of news.
Good to see you, and lovely video – sorry it’s horrid and stressful currently. I’ve found various things help a little; yesterday, saw an interview with Paul Krugman (the economist) who said he wakes every day and faces the horror—that he’s then writing about, so he can hardly avoid it—but he doesn’t watch any news after 6pm and listens to music instead. I have to face the horror as part of my work also, but started doing jigsaw puzzles again with music on after others in my household have gone to bed; it’s shortening my sleep but providing a bit of mental space. And funnily enough, have been wearing Hasu no Hana too; maybe the medicinal appeals now as we desperately need a cure. All a bit fiddly/fiddling while Rome burns, though…so am trying to support good journalism and independent businesses, etc… changed my search engine…Big things are better but small things can help too.
Waiving hello from the 51st state.
Wait. NO. NEVER!!!!
I cope by inhaling copious vintage and indie fumes until I pass out from their beauty.
yes the three Grossmiths are otherworldly. I bought them in three (always full bottles) ca 2010. what bliss and layered powderiness plus Flower Pow(d)er. they remind me of Oriza L.Legrands. of which I have the whory Marions-Nous (w Civet) and S’e’cret (or: S’ec’ret) Joly and Vétiver Bourbon yet Jardins d’Armide still lack … from L’Heure Bleue I have an 1980s Edp (refill). from Mitsouko I made this concoction: a new 30mL parfum, 30% of 100mL Edp, pour them together (ravage first the nozzle of said Edp) but all has worked and now I have an Extrait de parfum, fabuleuse ! I hope Trump soon drops dead with Putin in his Piglets Arms.