simple pleasures: danse sur les toits

“I hope many of you will be people that question why things are and why we have to do them the way we have always done them. I hope you will take some risks. exert some real leadership on issues, and if you will, dance along the edge of the roof as you continue for life. ”

— Wilma Mankiller, First Female Chief of Cherokee Nation

simple pleasures: changement intérieur

“To take on another’s language is to take on another’s culture and all the accumulations of it’s history into the body. One is touched and in being touched, one is changed.”

— Anne Hamilton

simple pleasures: la liberté

“For freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.”

— Frances Moore Lappé

simple pleasures: le coin

“Parisian gardens are as much a part of the collective imagination as the quintessentially French word “flâner” - to stroll. In them people chat and set the world to rights, but above all they amble and relax. ”

— Frédéric Sofia

simple pleasures: un nouveau jour

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

— Socrates

avignon, a small town in the south of france is located on the rhone river and was the seat of the catholic popes in the 14th century. at the heart of the historic city sits the papal palace, a medieval gothic building. once a fortress, today it is a captivating museum housing religious artwork including centuries-old paintings, sculptures + frescoes.