Candy Darling
-I watched a documentary on Candy Darling on Wednesday night. I love documentaries on Warhol and the gang. My favorite is Pie in the Sky about Brigid Berlin. Oh man, all those pug pillows in her house (see photo above and more I took from this spot on the internet). Yes! I can’t wait to continue to develop my old lady personality. I want Fabergé egg collections and a Diana Vreeland aesthetic. I try to develop that as life goes on, but I have lazy, comfortable days that I blame for failure at that. I really enjoyed The Goldfinch so much because it delves into themes of art and beauty and the importance of those in our lives.
-I finally tried the Downton Abbey English Rose tea that Kelly’s sister got me for Christmas, and it’s lovely. I want to try the Estate Blend and the Grantham Breakfast blend, too. They’ve all got good reviews.
-Currently Reading and enjoying: The Southerner's Handbook: A Guide to Living the Good Life. It’s by the editors of Garden & Gun which I love.
-Back to the Fabergé egg thing, if I believed in next lives, I’d want to come back as a Russian. I’m fascinated by Russian history and culture. I daydream of drinking tea from a samovar, sweetened with jam. If I could travel anywhere in the entire world, I would love to visit St. Petersburg. The film Russian Ark was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen, and I sort of want to take a Russian history class at the university, purely for pleasure purposes. The mere mention of pickled vegetables, sausages, blinis with caviar, smoked salmon, cabbages, and rye bread sends me into a daydream. I now know and understand that, with these revelations, the Madame Bovary comparison in my early twenties was, and continues to be, spot on.