above canal. below houston.

a season for strawberries

"The more genuine part of my life is unrecognizable, extremely intimate and impossible to define."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

If you haven't already had the pleasure-you must read this haunting narrative. Perhaps the greatest female Latin American prose writer of our time; Clarice Lispector pens her final masterpiece with imagination and compassion. A tale of love, identity, and sorrow; The Hour of the Star is a work of fiction that is made for this day, this season, this lifetime.

let's do this on friday

food for thought

The New Yorker's Macy Halford elaborates on the importance of reading and literature during our youth. As an aspiring children's book author I take this very much to heart and am now certain of two things: (1) I owe my parents much praise and recognition (2) if I have a daughter she will not be reading anything by Stephanie Meyer

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/07/children-who-dont-read-grow-up-bad.html

from korea with love

These photos make me smile and were taken by one of my oldest and dearest friends now teaching in Seoul.

(Thank you Miss Jenny for always being there even when we are 7000 miles apart.)

saturday at the seashore

to be an artist is to see what others cannot....thanks patti

"Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed.

It leads to each other. We become ourselves"

Patti Smith, Just Kids

kathrynmarybonanno

Pardon me as I indulge myself with words, photos, literature, music, and my beloved city

This is what I like. If you don't; then that's cool too