Jewelry,Food,Art,Music,Fashion,Family,Friends...the stuff that makes up life (at least for me) is sometimes worth sharing. That's what this blog is essentially about. I don't profess to be a writer, scholar or a thinker. Just someone who for one reason or another feels like she "gets it". I invite anyone reading this to come along with me thru the soundbites of life and share their thoughts, ideas or comments.
I will write about jewelry- my passion of course. But food, art, fashion- (halloween) anything that gets me going and I think is share-worthy. The goal here is to enjoy life and the things it has to offer. I invite you to learn, teach and create.
*the watch posted above is 18k diamond and yellow gold, by Fred of Paris,circa 1970. The sculpture, unidentified artist, illegible signature, probably depicting Gargantua (see below)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein. There is much crudity and scatological humor as well as a large amount of violence. Long lists of vulgar insults fill several chapters.
Rabelais studied Ancient Greek, and used this as he invented hundreds of new words, some of which became part of the French language.[citation needed] His quibbling and other wordplay fills the book, and is quite free from any prudishness.
The introduction to the series, in an English translation,[1] runs:
Readers, friends, if you turn these pages
Put your prejudice aside,
For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous,
Nothing sick, or bad — or contagious.
Not that I sit here glowing with pride
For my book: all you'll find is laughter:
That's all the glory my heart is after,
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
- BE HAPPY!
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