“Dearest — my body is simply crazy with wanting you — If you don’t come tomorrow — I don’t see how I can wait for you — I wonder if your body wants mine the way mine wants yours — the kisses — the hotness — the wetness — all melting together — the being held so tight that it hurts — the strangle and the struggle.”

Georgia O’Keeffe to Alfred Stieglitz in My Faraway one

Thank you N for this beautiful book!

Photo by Rankin

This exceptional volume gathers 650 meticulously selected and annotated letters exchanged between one of the most prominent couples in art history, photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) and legendary artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), who over the course of their 30-year romance exchanged more than 5,000 letters — roughly 25,000 pages — on everything from the rich detail of their daily lives to the breathless angels and demons of their passion.

I admit it: I am the lover type. I like the intimacy, the “jardin secret” that comes with staying way longer than necessary in bed or kissing too often for anyone else’s standards. I believe a relationship should stay in this stage forever.  Being lovers -meaning being in this intimate presence with each other- is the essence of a what happens between a man and a woman, any other titles : wife, girlfriend, mistress, etc etc are cover-ups in my opinion.

Enough said but now you understand why I was intrigued by the movie and decided tonight to watch For Lovers Only. It’s a road trip in France of two ex-lovers who cross each others path after many years, filmed a la Claude Lelouche version black & white with a great playlist -without chabadabada chabadabada- & candy to the eye.

Esthetically lovely -with smoking actors Stana Katic and Mark Polish-  I am enjoying every minute of it. It’s dreamy, it’s sexy -in a bit of a safe way if you ask me – but so far it’s missing something and I can’t quite put my finger on it… she caresses his hair, she bites his neck, they laugh, he washes her in a bath they take together.  They even jump off a cliff together after he teaches her to drive an old motorcycle…

Maybe because the film is about those moments that are just so intimate and magical but always awkward if you try sharing them with someone else, even with a close friend. Everyone knows about how good they feel yet they how difficult it is to share them with others.

Maybe because they are not meant to be shared.

~She

for lovers only… from Polish Brothers on Vimeo.

I have a feeling that
Life with you will be far too short

For all our fantasies, fun & funk
- might need to change a letter

For all our dreams, desires & demons
- in a cercle rouge as Siddhartha said

For a life of luxe, calme & volupte
- as tagged with purple neon on the wall

I know indeed
Life with you will be far too short

“Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, drew a circle with a piece of red chalk and said: ‘When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle.’”

I just received a fantastic present from a girlfriend who’s hearts like mine beats in Paris & New York. I think she found it at Colette because she is always in these trendy stores but you can get them too directly on the artist, Vahram Muratyan’s blog.  It reminds me of my old Parisian habit of smoking and my NY habit of having red nails (always short). We both love Paris vs New York because it always hits that dual reference reminding us of what we love about those 2 beautiful cities.

The book is out next week, make sure you get one !

Mille kisses,

~She