"I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'"
- Ann Richards
"And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before"
-Excerpt from The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
Images from Studio 54 and Truman Capote's Black and White Ball.
“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Featured pieces:
Shot in Tucson by Micael A. Muller & Leigh Patterson.
Joan Armatrading.
I think I was lucky enough to be 17 or 18 when I learned about her. Not till I was in my late 20's could I begin to feel the depth of emotion in her music. The songs below have never lost their healing powers for me.
For those that need buoying up:
Down to Zero
Love and Affection
Willow
Tall in the Saddle
Whatever's for us
Woncha Come on Home
