Category: Fiction

To misconstrue a subject for an object is to ​inhibit the realization of perfection.

Beauty is in words that are written on pages by women who have fought simply to have a voice, to be able to tell the stories they have within them. Beauty is in the day-to-day poetry of life.

My first encounter with the elusive concept of beauty came as a child in the garden behind our house. A neighbor, admiring my mother’s newly flowering peonies, exclaimed: “These are so beautiful!”

Beauty is a complete state of relaxation. One can be in such a state if one is confident, secure, fearless, in nirvana. 

Chef Marco Pierre White has said that nature is the true artist, and that a chef should let nature show herself off instead of forcing the ingredients into an unnatural or counter-intuitive presentation.