Me, Michèle
Mother, father, friend and lover, teacher, student, child and sometime sage
The places that have shaped me:
London, Ireland, Sri Lanka, Venice, Vienna, Scotland, France.
Emotional age: 5–105, according to the day, the hour, the place.
Chronological age: around 65
Rational age: no idea
Love
- Chopin
- Irish Weather
- Words that open boxes
- Cows
- Coffee fudge cake
Don’t Love
- Words that keep us in boxes
- Theories that are born out of ideas, and not out of life
- Sweet champagne
Constant Companions
- The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
- Le petit prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Where angels fear to tread, E.M. Forster
- Das kleine Ich-bin-Ich, Mira Lobe
- Story, Robert McKee
- The lazy man's guide to enlightenment, Thaddeus Golas
- Was ist ein Naturgesetz?, Erwin Schrödinger
- What is life?, Erwin Schrödinger
- Ich und du, Martin Buber
- Briefe an einen jungen Dichter, Rainer Maria Rilke
- The worm forgives the plough, John Stewart Collis
- Rhetoric, Aristotle
- Pensées et opuscules, Blaise Pascal
- The stones of Venice, John Ruskin
- The artist’s reality, Mark Rothko
- Poems of Louis Aragon
- Poems of John Keats
- Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Bouvard et Pécuchet, Gustave Flaubert
- Die Logik der Forschung, Karl Popper
Songs Through My Life
Michèle in Song
by Benjamin Schmid, written for Truths, Trust and Translation.