the opposite of law

We talk about making decisions and doing the best you can and then moving on. How illness is a distraction that must be defeated so that you can focus on the real work.

I learn that her husband makes a sublime Grand Marnier cake. (Recipe needed.) That she adores the opera, which is fascinating to me, because it is all madness, murder and uncontrolled passion, the opposite of law.

But maybe not.

The artist Maira Kalman in conversation with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, as blogged in the New York Times.

love me a maira

I’m trying to figure out two very simple things: How to live, and how to die. Period.

Maira Kalman talks at TED »

Kalman’s at my fantasy dinner table (which, I have been told, has "too many girls". Too bad.). She's sitting right between Christiana Amanpour and Lou Salome.

Maira Kalman's books and stuff at Amazon »

Maira Kalman's New York Times year long blog: Principles of Uncertainty »

one thing leads to another

Right around the corner from Freud, lives the sexy Wittgenstein, who is thinking that ultimately what we say means Nothing. Confusing. Yet alluring. Somehow there may be more humor there. But three of his four brothers killed themselves and that is tragic and fantastically distressing.

From One Thing Leads to Another, in the fabulous Maira Kalman's The Principles of Uncertainty blog at the New York Times.

They call it a blog, but what kind of blog is flagged as "paid content"? You've gotta be a Times Select subscriber to get in.

That's just so not Web 2.0.