Locks of Flora
“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes.”
Quote from Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
The Precision of Persimmons
How to choose
persimmons. This is precision.
Ripe ones are soft and brown-spotted.
Sniff the bottoms. The sweet one
will be fragrant. How to eat:
put the knife away, lay down newspaper.
Peel the skin tenderly, not to tear the meat.
Chew the skin, suck it,
and swallow. Now, eat
the meat of the fruit,
so sweet,
all of it, to the heart.
-Excerpt from the poem “Persimmons” by Li-Young Lee
In Pictures: Bjork Finds Solace
“Compared to America or Europe, God isn’t a big part of our lives here. I don’t know anyone here who goes to church when he’s had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.” Bjork
Pictured: Bird of paradise (Strelitzia)
In Pictures: Grace Slick
Grace Slick was trouble. The messy, brilliant kind. The WSJ recently asked Slick if she had any regrets:
“Yes. That I didn’t have sex with Jimi Hendrix, that I’ve never been to the Middle East and that I never learned to ride a horse. That’s about it.”
Pictured: Rosa (Rose)
In Pictures: Nancy Wilson Deserves Those Flowers And Your Applause
Nancy Wilson
Pictured: Rose (Rosa)
In Pictures: Truman Capote Lost In The Elephant Ears
While not a gardener himself, Capote wrote the introduction for fashion designer, muse and avid gardener C.Z. Guest’s book, An Illustrated Garden Primer.
“C.Z. Guest stands out among Truman Capote’s fabled swans as the most serene and unruffled of the flock. With her sleek cap of champagne-colored hair and eyes as blue as her blood, C.Z.—the “cool vanilla lady,” as Capote described her—glided among the gilded lilies of the day with an “ice cream reserve” that matched her exacting sartorial choices.
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