I’ve been visualizing how I’d like to re-organize seemingly everything in my life these days, not least of all my countless {cook}books. I’m inspired by this book-framed image of Coco Chanel by Mark Shaw, fashion and celebrity photographer. It also reminds me somehow of my Mom, who likes to wear hats sometimes(but unlike Coco, smoked cigarettes only briefly as a teen growing up in Brooklyn NY). Could smoking so long ago still make you sick, I wonder?
It’s true that I mostly write about appetite, and indeed our Thanksgiving dinner in TO will be particularly special this year. But the best thing on the menu is our GREATEST APPRECIATION for the positive outlook for my Mom’s upcoming surgery, and the wonderful friends and family who have made these past few weeks bearable. Isn’t health and community really our greatest wealth? Not to sound preachy, but hey…let’s be good to each other and indeed…thankful.