Hier soir la conversation s'est bien déroulée. George m'a parlé de son voyage avec sa femme à Reims et à Epernay, du champagne Veuve Clicquot, des caves qu'ils ont visitées, immenses dans les crayères qui sont de très anciennes mines, m'explique-t-il, déjà exploitées du temps des Romains.Et du livre qu'il a énormément aimé L'Elégance du hérisson.Balade à pied en ville.
En passant je vois la Mission Gallery et me rappelle que Rena Rosequist, l'assez vieille dame rieuse qui était à notre réunion jeudi dernier, en est la propriétaire. J'entre.Parle des jours anciens quand son mari avait créé la galerie, les rencontres avec tous les artistes venus à Taos depuis le début du siècle dernier.Cette galerie, oui, elle y tient, coûte que coûte, parce que c'est la fidélité à tous ces amis morts pour la plupart et la continuation de cette vie qu'ils avaient décidé de consacrer à l'art.
Elle me montre les gravures, les poteries, les bijoux en papier (comme toi Pascale), les tableaux.Moments de plaisirs partagés, du pas beaucoup d'argent, de jeunesse...Beauté de cette femme.Quand je sors le ciel redevenu blanc supprime tout relief.
Pas très froid, mais j'ai envie de rentrer lire et travailler.Je regagne le fauteuil vieux rose, bien au chaud, je commence à écrire.
Rena Rosequist
14- The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Champagne, Mission Gallery, Chi Cong
Yesterday evening, French conversation with George. He talked of his trip to Champagne with his wife when they explored Reims and Epernay, tasted Veuve Cliquot champagne, visited the cellars in the old chalk mines which they found immense and that they were already being worked in the time of the Romans.He then talked of a book he liked enormously "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery.Today, walk to the town. Along the way, I see the Mission Gallery and remember that Rena Rosequist who was at our meeting last Thursday is the proprietor.I go in.
She begins talking of the old days when her husband had opened the gallery,when they met all the artists who came to Taos since the beginning of last century,when they shared such good moments together, not much money but they were so young…She insists, this gallery, it's essential to keep it open as a way of being faithful to all these friends even if many of them are now dead and for the continuation of lives they had decided to dedicate to art.
She shows me the engravings, the pottery, the jewelry made of paper (Like your’s Pascale), the paintings. The beauty of this woman.When I go out, the sky has become white again erasing all relief.Not so cold but all of a sudden I feel like going home. A strong desire to read, to work. Return to the old pink armchair, keeping myself warm. I begin writing.
9- Democracy Now : Howard Zinn, In the Home of Helene Würlitzer
"Democracy now!" is the show I listen to in bed early in the morning with Amy Goodman who is a prominent and respected American Broadcast journalist, a syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and an author of five books including the New York Times bestseller Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times. She is the co-founder and executive producer and host of the popular, daily, independent radio, internet and television news program named Democracy Now! It is broadcasted on 650 stations around the world.
Today it was an interview with Howard Zinn, who died yesterday. He wrote more than 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States.Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s iconic A People's History of the United States “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.” Packed with vivid details and telling quotations, Zinn’s award-winning classic continues to revolutionize the way American history is taught and remembered.At 2:00 we all met in the home of Helene Wurlitzer around a buffet prepared with great care by Michael. We got to know each other a little more. I talked with Pamela Dodds and Heather King. Also present, the former director Bill Ebie of the Roswell Residency (residency of six months to one year for visual artists with an exhibition at the end) and Rena Rosequist who has been the owner of the mission gallery for more than a half-century. She regularly displayed and sold (and still does) works by Taos painters and sculptors.
I went back home with my neighbors Liz and George, both are writers.Resume The Feathered Serpent, quite interesting finally.