the Nora Chadwick Readership in Celtic Studies

One awoke of a morning to the twittering of birds, to walk to school amidst delicate, lace-like shadows of great trees acloud with old gold: the buds lay curled like tiny feathers on the pavements.

the prosing speeches of the honest divine

Though in fact I’m on my way to a harvest lunch hosted by legendary restauratrice Alice Waters in honor of Cannard, who for 21 years has supplied the majority of produce for Chez Panisse, in spirit I find myself within scrabbling distance of my childhood, and suddenly I am sobbing so hard I have to pull over.