by Cari Borja
“For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn’t escape scent. Continue reading
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Cocktails and Love
by Cari Borja
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
—Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Holiday Rituals: What We Eat, Drink and Watch to Mark the Passing of a Year
by Cari Borja
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
—Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
How do we measure time? From those meaningful memories of the rituals (or repetitions) that punctuate our lives, to those more novel experiences that may over time become a ritual—we are not only what we celebrate but how. Continue reading
PRUNE: The Restaurant, the Book, and the Photography of Eric Wolfinger
by Cari Borja
He wrote me: I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst? — Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil , 1983
One Story is Many: SEMBÈNE! Shines a Light on the Visionary Filmmaker
by Cari Borja
“At the moment the eyes of the body closed, the eyes of the mind were opened.”
—Ousmane Sembène, God’s Bit of Wood Continue reading
The Life of Wine: The Which-and-When of a Drink That Changes Over Time
by Cari Borja
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” —Soren Kierkegaard
Can you remember what kind of wine drinker you were when you first saw Alexander Payne’s iconic 2004 film Sideways , which takes place in Santa Barbara wine country? I do. Continue reading
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