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By Janice MacLeod
“How a lot funds does it take to alter your life?”
Unfulfilled at her activity and unsuccessful within the relationship division, Janice MacLeod doodled this query at her table. Then she made up our minds to make it a challenge.
Over the following few months, with a bit math and many choice, she kept up sufficient to shop for years of freedom in Europe.
But she had merely been in Paris for a number of days whilst she met a good-looking butcher (with a awesome resemblance to Daniel Craig)—and by no means went domestic again.
A love tale within the vein of virtually French and Lunch in Paris, Paris Letters (February four) is a cheerful romp during the urban of sunshine, and an inspiring examine what can occur once we dare to create the lifestyles we want.
Realizing that her Parisian love affair will be perpetually, MacLeod started her personal enterprise on Etsy, growing beautifully-illustrated letters from Paris encouraged by way of artists like Percy Kelly and Beatrix Potter. She now paints and writes full-time, bringing appealing issues to subscribers world wide and reviving the misplaced artwork of letter-writing.
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He’s even got his own rhyming prayer: Dear Saint Anthony, please come around. I’ve lost my (fill in the blank), and it cannot be found. My sister once said of Saint Anthony, “Watch what you ask for from Saint Anthony. It really works. You’ve got be careful. ” There is Archangel Michael, who will cut your ties with whatever and whoever you want out of your life. And then there is Saint Christopher, who I thought of a lot as he is the patron saint of safe travels and that’s exactly what I was praying for.
After a few close calls with scooters, I had rubbed the Saint Christopher medallion around my neck more than once in thanks and prayer. Notre Dame has its own special saint. Apparently, Saint Louis IX was the King of France and he bought the Crown of Thorns from Baldwin II of Constantinople. I wonder if he prayed to Saint Anthony to help find it.
Why did I have six? I used up the rest of my teeth whitening gel. I gave up on and tossed the recipes I’d clipped for dishes I never made. I tossed the free CD of weird music I never listen to from that yoga class I stopped going to. The old yoga mat, the deflated yoga ball, the broken yoga straps, the expired yoga membership…tossed. Half-filled journals of half-baked ideas, the stack of phone books from the last five years, broken flowerpots that I kept with thoughts of making something crafty from them, the broken frames I meant to fix…tossed.