Guest Post: Dimi

We invited all our guests to contribute guest posts to this blog, but so far only a few intrepid souls have taken advantage of our offer. Dimi chose to compose an epistolary post, and we've taken the liberty of selecting pictures to accompany her observations.

Here are notes I thought of and sent to Trina and Carole when I got back. If you want to use them, or not, you may, or not. ~d

Here's the first installment of the travelogue:

On a sociotal level, my comparative observation is that Parisians are austere in dress and manner, yet happy. Americans are not ashamed to talk incessantly and wear cheap, ill-fitting clothing, and lack peace.

Just sayin'

~d

Second Installment:

Non-verbal communication IS a form of communication and , as I observed this week, can be the most effective.

American shrinks will tell you that you have to talk and TAAALK it out! B.S. to that narrow thought.

The French, according to what I saw and heard, do just fine with a simple hand motion or eye contact and move on. And they use physical materials, such as paint, sculpture, fabric, and architecture expressively.

And few words, carefully chosen.
~d

(Remember this?)

Installment Three:

The French give new meaning to Beige!


My misguided mission had been to eliminate beige from the planet.
Now I've seen how breathtakingly the French artisans, commoners, and kings have texturized and qualitized the (non)color to nearly knock you over with its beigeful beauty.
~d