Notre Dame de Paris took 182 years to build. Rhodin created scores of "sketches" in clay before making a making a plaster cast for a sculpture. Laduree, the elegant bakery on the Champs-Elysees, sells only delicate macaroons in 15 unique flavors. Monet painted his pond in Giverny for 30 years, producing more than 200 canvases of water lilies, eight of them painted on such a scale that a museum was built to display them only. The metro signs, the Christmas lights at Les Galleries Lafayette, the lovers on the streets, the food, especially the lovingly prepared food.
The French live an intentionality that is brave, ridiculous and marvelous. I want to have that kind of intentional life. Creating every day with intent.
The idea is not wholly foreign to me. My work is often intentional. I seek input, think, plan, and then create. My life is another story; a path littered with the debris of little or no intention. Dresses that don't suit me, ill-fitting shoes, haphazard meals, unused gym memberships, random furniture bought for price, and time in front of the television. (Yes, I am guilty of watching Tila Tequila's A Shot at Love.)
How lucky we all are in every moment to get another shot at intentional joy. So here I go, good intentions are good enough for me.
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