Treasure finds from Paris

 I had been wanting to get a certain book called "Women who read are dangerous" for quite a while, but since it was first printed in 2005 I was having trouble getting a hardcover that was not super expensive. Imagine my excitement when I serendipitously found it at a museum boutique while I waited for my friends. For some reason I did not get it at the moment, but I kept thinking about it and we ended up going back for it the next day.

 Smiling at security guards and explaining your story is the way to skipping through long lines. I am so happy with it. It really is an interesting and beautiful book, illustrating through art history from the medieval times to contemporary paintings the role of the simple act of reading in women's lives over time... giving them access to worlds that were otherwise forbidden to them, subverting the status quo, breaking conventions.

While walking through the small streets of Paris I was able to find a small vintage suitcase for the boy, with which he intends to try a DIY project. It was a great find, since we had been looking for one at flea markets and second hand shops, to no avail.
I also just finished reading a biography of Leonora Carrington. Her life was so amazing, a rebel at heart who fought for her right to be an artist, communicated with animals from an early age and showed us magical worlds to which she seemed to have access. During World War II she stood up against fascism, risked her life at it, was confined to a psychriatic institution, endured painful "treatment" and emerged stronger, finally settling in Mexico where she led a full life, being interested in alchemy, the occult, the ideas of C. Jung and a close friend of other artists such as painter Remedios Varo and photographer Kati Horna.

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