Tea Trots, Hemingway and Paris
June 29, 2009 by Janice · 6 Comments
A Movable Feast has been reedited by Sean Hemingway, Papa’s grandson, and is soon to be released. He says it will be more in line with the order and intent of his grandfather’s wishes. Sean is an associate curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has edited other works by his legendary grandfather. He wants this to reflect less bias, more this is the way it really was in his grandfather’s mind.
I can’t wait to read this one.
Because you see, I have always wondered about the particular perfumed air of Paris that seduced so many of the Moderns. That time between the wars. A world in flux. And I have been thinking about pivot points. Times turning from one thing to another. There is a moment, a becoming moment that stretches for awhile . Until that thing it becomes is released.
Pivot points. And movable feasts. And storms.
Those are on my mind. But the picture from the paper that stayed with me, more than all the others was the one in the photo of all those parasols, and the colorful dresses.The kind of party Brooke Astor would have loved. They took a free five minute ferry ride over to Governor’s Island to a tea, to stroll, to have some fun, and look we have blocks and blocks of color, each one a summer’s dance. Look at all the parasols turning in the sun….a summer moment stretched…suspended in the air…
Summer moments. I think I need some of those.
I took a walk yesterday to snap some photos for a brand new piece…passion blooms, the flowers are round, turning in the Texas sun..like parasols suspended on a summer hedge…yes, they might work, they made me smile…think of moveable feasts… not so much of storms….
So, on this Organizing Monday, I am thinking I am organizing some time in July to just be with these blooms and the paint, not so much with words. I think I need a break. To take the time it takes to be upon an island. To breathe some perfumed air right here. To see what this one brings while it is becoming. And to maybe read some more about Hemingway’s Paris. Do some private writing.
So not right now, but real soon. In about a week. I think I’ll take a posting hiatus until maybe August.
How about you? Do you need some summer moments?