tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58491752246303613452012-01-14T05:18:29.390-08:00The Spice of Life“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
― Julia ChildA Faigle in Francehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01946333327614567816noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849175224630361345.post-90379838726899312992012-01-14T04:05:00.000-08:002012-01-14T05:18:29.399-08:00Au Début<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;">Maybe it was turning 50 last year...maybe it was finally finally finally getting an invitation to interview for our 10 year French residence card...maybe it is the bullet speed approach of an empty nest...maybe it was just a dense and soulful craving for nostalgia...whatever the reason, I took a sunny January afternoon to slowly read through all of the posts from our blog that has been alive since the Spring of 2005 when this little adventure in France started to take serious form. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Immortality is alive and well on the internet. At least I was searching for the golden memories and not of someone hugging the </span><span style="text-align: left;">porcelain</span><span style="text-align: left;"> throne or dancing in their birthday suit. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Celia and Nathan were so young! We were all so excited! From a distance, it now seems like a herculean task to extricate ourselves from such a beautiful place and from such incredible friends, but from the perspective of our blogging at the time, it seems like we just danced through it all. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WE-d7uD-VQQ/TxF1OoNCMsI/AAAAAAAACRI/KspYqQdqlOg/s1600/P4010052.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WE-d7uD-VQQ/TxF1OoNCMsI/AAAAAAAACRI/KspYqQdqlOg/s400/P4010052.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ACT2fYDslCk/TxF1UPMWeLI/AAAAAAAACRQ/fbJbSdkGLkw/s1600/P4010067.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ACT2fYDslCk/TxF1UPMWeLI/AAAAAAAACRQ/fbJbSdkGLkw/s400/P4010067.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Our beautiful piece of heaven near Monterey, California</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But hindsight is 20/20 and I thought it might be interesting to go retro and talk about how and why we made the changes we did and what effect can we now see that those changes had on our lives. To ponder a bit on how we could or would do things differently if we lived in the States again. To perhaps crack open the escape hatch and see what a Plan C would look like. If we knew then what we know now, how would that look? What have we learned from living in this magnificent country that we can apply to our lives in general?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soooo...that is the premise of this blog. I fully intend to stay present and conscious in our current and wonderful life in France by continuing to blog on <a href="http://faiglesinfrance.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Life in France</a>, but the dissection of this life could prove to be a lesson for me in living consciously. If that interests you, I invite you along for the trip back.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bon voyage au début!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mary</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://faiglesinfrance.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://faiglesinfrance.blogspot.com/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5849175224630361345-9037983872689931299?l=pinchofspice.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>A Faigle in Francehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01946333327614567816noreply@blogger.com0