Die Goldbahn (The Gold Railway), Edward B. Gordon I just love Edward B. Gordon's paintings and especially those from urban life ..read more

It is the food of the high places, of the foothills, pine barrens, and slow brown rivers. It is not something done by the great chefs of Atlanta or Birmingham for people who spend more on a table for four than a working class family spends on groceries for a month. It was never intended for everyone, but for people who once set a trotline, or slung a wrench, or rose from a seat in the ciety auditorium to testify during an all-night gospel singing. Rick Bragg, The Best Cook in the World As I've mentioned before, this is one of my favorite comfort books ..read more

Die Vorbereitung (Preparation), Edward B. Gordon  Since today's quote was about food, let's keep that theme going ..read more

Bruno and Gus, Fort Worth Zoo The Fort Worth Zoo has a great Facebook feed as you can see from this photo of Bruno and Gus sharing some brotherly love. I love this so much ..read more

 We're on a heckuva road trip in episode 336, discussing Little Miss Sunshine on A Good Story is Hard to Find ..read more

We must certainly be in a novel; What I like about this novelist is that he takes such trouble about his minor characters. G.K. Chesterton As a minor character, I like that too ..read more

Poster for Victorien Sardou`s Gismonda starring Sarah Bernhardt at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris Alphonse Mucha, 1894 Via WikiArt There's just something about Mucha ..read more

[My father's] den or study was piled high with the stratified layers of about ten or twelve creative amusements; water-colour painting and modelling and photography and stained glass and fretwork and magic langerns and mediaevel illumination. ... He never dreamed of turning any of these plastic talents to any mercentary account, or of using them for anything but his own private pleasure and ours. ... All this time he was known to the world, and even the next-door neighbours, as a very reliable and capatable though rather unambitious business man. It was a very good lession in what is also the ..read more

Little Teddy, taken by Remo Savisaar Just the cutest little guy ever ..read more

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world. Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton Absolutely. You see this illustrated as an adult when you have children or grandchildren. It's a wonderful time machine to your own realization about everything being a wonder ..read more