CURIOSITY

IN YOUR SOUL THERE ARE
INFINITELY
PRECIOUS THINGS
THAT CAN NOT BE
TAKEN FROM YOU

Oscar Wilde

The risk that I have not taken but would like to take is to leave everything behind and follow my curious mind.

I recently read that Vladimir Naboko said that… curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Vladimir Naboko was born in St.Petersburg in Russia and lived in exile in Germany and France before moving to the United States where he taught literature at Cornell University.

He was a novelist, a poet, a witty man and he experimented with the formulation of beautiful words.

He is believed to have said that his “ language was English, his heart Russian and his ear French “

If he was alive I would have loved to attend his classes.

QUIET STORM

I guess that personal insubordination can be very liberating particularly if you stay pure in your soul.

I know that there is a state of being that is like a quiet storm that eventually leads us to live a life of freedom, peace and a little bit of madness.

My little bit of madness would be to introduce pink into interior decorating and to learn out to make a soupe de champagne.

French Champagne, Cointreau, Cane syrup and framboise.

Decadently feminine.

Dresses in Pink are so romantic and beautiful.

Somewhat ethereal.

My curiosity would take me to many places in the World to live with the locals and learn about all their history, culture, music and cuisine.

I would like to create the dishes that I would learn from those cultures in my kitchen and pass on the knowledge to other generations.

How they celebrate life would be amazing to experience on a day to day basis.

I know that I would fall in love with the laughter of children, the old villages with their tiny cobbled streets the old ladies talking on the Church Square and the beautiful young and old living their dreams.

The pink beaches would bewitch me completely and the white walls with their pink doors in Greece would tell my heart to stay.

And if I fell in love…. well I would feel that there is Heaven on Earth.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

My ultimate goal would be to show humanity that in our souls there are infinitely precious things.

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Curiously yours,

Victoria