genevieve.malarkey “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast*.” – Ernest Hemingway
*A Moveable Feast- a memory or even a state of being that has become a part of you, a thing that you could have always with you, no matter where you went or how you lived forever after, that you could never lose. An experience first fixed in time and space or a condition like happiness or love could afterward be moved or carried with you wherever you went in space and time.” -Patrick Hemingway.
In 2006 I was Jacqueline Kennedy (née Bouvier) in 1949, discovering the cultural and intellectual world I craved but didn’t yet know existed, absorbing these entities and from which I have continued to seek inspiration and intellectual refuge ever since (paraphrased from an excellent article by Ann Mah here). When will it end? I doubt it will.
And so I put it here, on this little spot of the internet, where maybe it will find others who also dream of a land of beauty, culture, elegance, and croissant.
