A Few Facts

1. Basic human kindness is alive and well.
2. Oscar Wilde's tomb is covered in kisses.
3. George Whitman is a gentle king of an intellectual's kingdom.
4. The French countryside looks just as beautiful viewed moving backwards at excess of 300 kilometers an hour as it does moving forwards in the calm stride of regular living.
5. By the Seine, there is a Mirror of Love.
6. When lending your downstairs neighbors kitchen paraphenalia, expect Thank You Crepes.
7. Fish tastes better when in the comapny of 75 multi-national strangers all becoming friends as quickly as they can.
8. Do not pay attention to writers of articles claiming the art of letter-writing is a dying art. They are lying. Please prove them wrong.
9. When caught in an airport lounge with armrests, achieve horizontal equilibrium by lying FACING the seat backs and placing the armrest in the pit of one's stomach. Caution: may only work for average-sized travelers.
10. Knitting needles are not allowed on flights from Heathrow to Paris.
11. Age is a state of mind.
12. Do not try to pretend you are not on the Metro while writing a letter or a journal. It will not work.
13. In the mountains, every village has a freshwater spring in its center.
14. Sunsets in Villars will ALWAYS be beautiful.
15. Norte Dame is far more impressive when it takes you by surprise.
16. Cat Stevens has the power to evoke an unexpected nostalgia in an unfamiliar landscape.
17. Often, when lost, things unexpected and far more delightful than those sought are found.
18. The French instill in one an alarming desire to write in cursive.
19. The last time it snowed in November in Villars was seven years ago. It snowed this afternoon.
20. The Lady Washington is sailing North next summer. I will be going with her.
21. Someday there will exist a library of journals of ordinary people, donated willingly, for open perusal by the public.
22. It is alright to spend the whole day lying in bed with a good book now and then, even while traveling.
23. It is impolite to sneer at sheep cheese.
24. In this world, there exists an item called a winkle-picker.
25. Friends to whom you can write about nothing are valuable and not to be discarded lightly.
26. Life is very, VERY beauiful.