#mydowntonabbey - Favorite images of Downton Abbey previous seasons - I WANT my Downton Abbey - Awaiting Season 4

What to do when awaiting season 4 of Downton?

Look at the pictures of course - the house, the interiors, those leather walls, the lamps, the floral tributes, the carpets - OH MY GOD - the dresses, the jewelry, the lamps - OMG - the story - let go, let go and let Downton Abbey whisk me away into a fantasy world that has THE most beautiful interiors a girl could ask for.

Blood red silk covering the walls of Sir Richard Carlisle's bedroom. Remember him? Lady Mary came close to marrying that newspaperman until first Matthew said "you DON'T have to," then Papa Robert, aka the Earl of Grantham said "break with Carlisle, bring us back an American cowboy to shake us up a bit."

The entire package of Downton Abbey, including the music written for the show, is a dream cake relaxed colour window into a world that is fascination complete.

Season 4 here we come.

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Thank you PBS.

http://www.pbs.org

Books - Linda Pyle - Excerpt from the THE MINNESOTA GOODBYE

     What is the heart of a child? How do I get back the open door policy with no waiting room or 

receptionist filing her nails, no security system or visiting hour, fire alarms or emergency exits, no 

insurance policies or saving accounts. The heart of a child grabs you by the cheeks with both hands and 

says I love you. It says in a pink dress, "Good morning, I hate you. I wish you were dead." Then eats a 

bowl of cereal. 

     The heart of a child teaches you chess at midnight on a school night. It reaches out her left shadow 

hand to her right shadow hand and pulls her shadow into her body. It has all the good and bad on the 

surface level of the bathtub water with the rubber duck. It lets you brush it's teeth. It never second 

guesses or asks your opinion or asks for you to be sacrifice on the alter of art or religion. It just adores 

your words and stick figures, no questions asked, and when the collective world says no, it just laughs 

because the heart of a child does not understand the world no.

Linda Pyle

Author of Peaks,Palms & Picnics-Palm Springs revised and updated 2011

and Pacific Peaks & Picnics Day Journeys in San Diego County.

http://www.lindampyle.com/index.html

Books: Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann

There is a driving beat inside the sentences of this work that pull me forward, make me look, increase anticipation and joy and breathtaking wonder, again, the sentences, like feet across the tightrope, one sentence at a time. 
           Read this book and say Oh - MY - God. 




"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again."
                                                                         - William Faulkner

Books: Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman

If you read Ann Patchett's introduction to
                          BINOCULAR VISION,
you will surely turn the page,
and the next page,
and the next.



I am awestruck and filled with wonder.

My breath has been taken away.
These very short stories are touching,
mind bending,
they make me want to read them aloud and
              savour
each
                                                 and every word.
Oh God, the glory of living in a world with art.


"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again."
                                                                         - William Faulkner