La Leçon

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Me. Living in NY, now finished with my Masters in French Lit. and looking for a job/purpose, but also preoccupied with life, love, art and everything else I happen to be fall upon or under. it's gonna be random because I love Godard, France Gall, goat cheese, creativity, Mad Men, walking barefoot in the grass, pan's flute, 60's music, Nouvelle vague, hand on hand action, blooming period, expressionism, Art deco, the color green, Delta blues on a rainy night, Marianne Faithfull, hogging the covers, random dancing, yelling at the TV, epicurian pleasures, Scotch, Improv, eggplants, Surrealism, feeling like I'm in a Woody Allen movie, experimental cooking, passionate hair-grabbing, passionate air-guitar playing, snowstorms, riping clothes off, pointless arguments, heavy novels, salt-water hair, french yé-yé, Kierkegaard, locking eyes, running, watching paint dry,kissing, Moe from the Simpsons, twirling, the word cahoots, futurism, quoting movies, cartoons of ducks, board games, shoes that ultimately hurt my feet but look Grwahawwwh, not that many TV shows, feet sinking into sand, having cocktails at inappropriate hours, touching suede, Christopher Guest's brain, brushing my teeth but not my hair, dancing in the shower but not singing in it, afternoon delights, zombie movies, glitter art, being too much, artists & muse couples, reading while walking, Shiraz, impromptu musicals, and making collages. So this is my life, collage-style...
and please be forgiving, I'm used to french, english is only my second language...

lilynath at gmail dot com to chat me up and please do I like that.

I'm also spilling over at French-moi for all things à la française...

and I tweet too :twitter.com/lilyna

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My grandma. She is awesome.

She was a premature baby born at home. You know what they did? Put her in the oven ( as an incubator replacement ). Then her mother died when she was 2 months old.

When she grew up she was as girl-about-town as you can be in a small Quebec town in the 30’s; she was one of the first to ever ski ( they tied wood planks under their boots ) and she always regaled me with stories of how she kept many…relationships when they engaged in war because “it was so easy to write a letter and knit a sweater that you know would warm them and make them smile”…

and how always stylish and put together she was!

She married my grandpa, had 6 kids and many many grandchildren; always welcomed at her house ( in fact we moved in with her when my parents got divorced early in the 80’s - she never passed a bad jugement on anyone and was always so kind hearted…)

well she’s now 91, would be 92 on Wednesday…but doctors think she can’t make it ( alzheimer and a bunch of cancers )… I have pretty much made my peace with it, she had been sick for a couple of years, but as the time draws near, I am overwhelmed with memories…and felt the need to immortalize them here. I am proud to have been in her life.

2009.11.02 3:08pm ∞