“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”

Happy Birthday, Frida.

“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.”

– Jim Morrison, died 3 July 1971.

(Photo by Guy Webster, 1967).

This summer the weather is uncharacteristically hot and my allergies are severe—so severe, in fact, that my body wakes me up every morning at 4am. Last night I strolled to the window and was welcomed with the sight of the Magritte sky. A small but very welcome piece of magick.

In 1955, around the time they filmed Giant together, Elizabeth Taylor gave James Dean a cat. They had developed a close friendship and the kitten was her gift to the boy whose life was shortly end in a fatal car crash. He named the cat Marcus.

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

Happy Birthday, Anaïs 💜