Summer kisses, winter tears Perfect tense. Bittersweet
He had a passion for fine wines, high ceilings and back doors.
There is north and there’s south and then there is Winson Green.
“I feel most coloured when I am thrown against a sharp, white background.” Zora Neale Hurston
‘A fire should be left burning Till it burns itself out: We shan’t have another chance to dance and shout Once the flames are silent…’
‘They are cutting down the trees on Primrose Hill. The wood is white like the roast flesh of chicken, Each tree falling like a closing fan; No more looking at the view from seats beneath the branches, Everything is going to plan…’ Louis MacNeice - Autumn Journal
Capitalism is cosmopolitan, while democracy is tied to a territorial jurisdiction. Capitalism means one pound one vote, while democracy means one citizen, one vote. One danger, then, is that wealth buys power in the name of order, turning democracy into plutocracy. Another is that demagogues seize power in the name of the people turning democracy into autocracy. Martin Wolf FT
Mural in Aix-en-Provence