Trumping the candle

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 27, 2015 We have just lit a candle. An expensive, beautiful smelling, long-burning candle, the scent of which is neroli, I believe, (citrus aurantium — the flower of the bitter orange — a heady, citrusy, flowery scent still prized, as it was in ancient Egypt, for its calming, tranquilizing and mood-elevating effects). It …

Path of The Country Bunny

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 12, 2015 Dear Santa, Here’s my Christmas list. Actually, in preamble, I have to admit that I have been thinking about the Easter Bunny lately — more specifically, the one portrayed in my favorite book of all time, “The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes.” Do you remember it? It’s 1939. …