I absolutely love this post! Baudelaire’s exquisite writing about flaneurs: “For the perfect flaneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world…The spectator is a prince, who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.“ Wow
Balzac: “To stroll is to live.”
Edmund White: “ Americans consider the sidewalk an anonymous, backstage space, whereas for the French it is the stage itself.”
You as a flaneur strolling through your pilgrim life. And what better place to stroll and contemplate your canvas than Paris where you are now living and where you return each day to your tiny, temporary, garret home above the rooftops.
I love how you wove all of these pieces together. I love that you will be sharing more about what special treasures and pleasures you find along the way in your new way of living.
Divine. I was there for these moments, looking over your healed shoulder!
I absolutely love this post! Baudelaire’s exquisite writing about flaneurs: “For the perfect flaneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world…The spectator is a prince, who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.“ Wow
Balzac: “To stroll is to live.”
Edmund White: “ Americans consider the sidewalk an anonymous, backstage space, whereas for the French it is the stage itself.”
You as a flaneur strolling through your pilgrim life. And what better place to stroll and contemplate your canvas than Paris where you are now living and where you return each day to your tiny, temporary, garret home above the rooftops.
I love how you wove all of these pieces together. I love that you will be sharing more about what special treasures and pleasures you find along the way in your new way of living.
I look forward to beginning my Wednesdays here.
I am too excited about this!