40 Expressions of Advice

 

There should always be something, that makes you smile

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40 Expressions of Advice

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Life is beautiful You must appreciate it as much as possible

 

 

40 Expressions of Advice

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On a Roll

Making a fashion statement were a few women who ride in Midtown Manhattan, often seen locking their bikes outside Bergdorf’s, Saks and Barneys.

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A mix of vintage and new styles, including 1930s gauntlet gloves and a new Balenciaga handbag in the basket. Some of the most colorful are the weekend racers.

Enjoy your weekend

HEIDI

Johanna Spyri (1827 - 1901), was a prolific writer, but is today chiefly remembered as the creator of Heidi.

She was born Johanna Heusser, the daughter of the village doctor in Hirzel, just south of Zurich and was educated first at the village school and then in Zurich, after which she spent two years, 1844-5.

In 1852 she married an ambitious young lawyer, Johann Bernhard Spyri, and moved to Zurich. Her husband took a more and more active role in Zurich politics, eventually becoming the city recorder.

Her first story "A Leaf on Vrony's Grave" appeared anonymously in 1871, when she was already 43.

Encouraged by its success, she followed it up with several more tales, but it was only in 1878 that her first book for children appeared. The first Heidi novel - "Heidi's Apprenticeship Years" - came out in 1880. It was only in response to popular demand that she wrote the follow-up - "Heidi Uses what She Has Learned" - which was published the following year. The two together make up the novel now known simply as "Heidi."

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The orphan child Heidi first lives with her aunt Dete, but Dete would like to concentrate on her career. So she brings Heidi to her grandfather, a queer old man living in an alpine cottage far from the next village in German. Alm-Uncle is good-hearted but mistrusts anybody and wants to keep the child from all evils of the world. So he refuses to send Heidi to school; instead she goes to the pastures, together with Peter, a shepherd boy looking after the goats. This (all too harmonious) apine idyll finds a sudden end when aunt Dete comes in again and brings Heidi to Frankfurt (Germany) where she shall stay with Clara, the paralyzed daughter of a rich family, and learn something.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Canadian-born artist Gregory Colbert began his career in Paris making documentary films about social issues. Filmmaking led to his work as a fine arts photographer, and the first public exhibition of his work was held in 1992 at the Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland.

His first exhibition, Timewaves, was to wide critical acclaim. For the next ten years, Colbert did not publicly exhibit his art or show any films. Instead, he traveled to such places as India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia and Antarctica

The new show first opened at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, in 2002 and is charted to travel the globe with no final destination. The Nomadic Museum, the travelling home of Ashes and Snow, debuted in New York (March to June 2005) and then travelled to Santa Monica (January to May 2006), and Tokyo (March to June 2007). The show will travel next to Mexico City.

The show will next migrate to Brazil in the fall of 2009.

 

 

"The fate of all birds is to fall, but the phoenix is the only bird that transcends her own death...
The fate of man is to fall, but some find a way to transcend their deaths. In this brief moment on earth, they succeeded in singing their song. The list of human birds of phoenix is long: [ ... ]
There are millions of men and women who are also birds of phoenix, whose stories are unknown... but whether they are known or unknown, man or elephant, all phoenixes share the same dance:

Feather to Fire
Fire to Blood
Blood to Bone
Bone to Marrow
Marrow to Ashes
Ashes to Snow."

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"...what matters is not what is written on the page
what matters is what is written in the heart..."

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"Ashes and Snow: A Novel in Letters", by Gregory Colbert