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The Heart and Soul of Paris

January 26, 2022 by Lesley Truffle

  The Heart and Soul of Paris   Notre-Dame Cathedral is widely perceived to be the heart and soul of Paris. The first time I visited Notre-Dame on the Île de la Cité, it was wasn’t just the cathedral’s sublime beauty that captivated me. It was the fabulous French Gothic architecture, accentuated by the most … [Read more…]

Posted in: City of Light, Historical, movies, Mythology, Social Comment, Travel Tagged: Adolf Hitler, Chanel, City of Light, Coco Chanel, France, Gabrielle Chanel, gargoyle, gargoyles, Hitler, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Notre Dame Cathedral, Notre-Dame, Our Lady of Paris, Paris, World War Two, WWII

The Festive Season

December 14, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

  The Festive Season   ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds; While visions of sugar-plums … [Read more…]

Posted in: books, Historical, Mythology, Social Comment, writers & creatives Tagged: A Christmas Carol, Ancient Celts, Ancient Mythology, Celtic, Celtic Druids, Celts, Charles Dickens, Christmas mythology, Christmas rituals, Christmas traditions, Dickens, Druids, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Mistletoe, Mistletoe myths, Saturnalia, Winter Solstice

Deck the Halls

December 6, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

      Deck the Halls     ‘The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.’                           The late Johnny Carson, comedian & former host of The Tonight Show.   My Christmas tree has landed and my apartment is now … [Read more…]

Posted in: Historical, Mythology, Observations, Social Comment Tagged: Adam and Eve, Christmas, Christmas traditions, Christmas trees, Deck the halls, Elvis, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, pine trees

All Hallows Eve

October 26, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

  All Hallows Eve   Halloween wasn’t always orange pumpkins, plastic skeletons and job lots of candy. At this time of year Christmas trimmings and Halloween decorations are fighting for shelf space in megastores.  And while nobody was paying attention, Halloween surreptitiously crept over most of October and Christmas decided to manifest early. In my … [Read more…]

Posted in: Historical, Mythology, Observations, Social Comment Tagged: All Hallows Eve, Ancient Celts, Ancient Myths, Celtic, Celts, Faery Host, Fire Festivals, Halloween, Halloween traditions, Headless Horsemen, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Samhain, Sidhs, Slaugh

Venus was her name

October 17, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

Venus was her name Goddess on the mountain top Burning like a silver flame The summit of beauty and love And Venus was her name She’s got it Yeah, baby, she’s got it …                                    Venus by Bananarama   For centuries artists have been enamoured by the mythological goddess Venus. Sandro Botticelli’s Venus is … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, artists, Mythology, Social Comment Tagged: Ancient Mythology, Art, Birth of Venus, Botticelli, Greco-Roman mythology, Jeff Koons, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Sandro Botticelli, The Rokeby Venus, Toilet of Venus

Romancing the Mushroom

March 25, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

  Romancing the Mushroom   pine mushrooms live a thousand years in one autumn             Den Sutejo 1633-1698 (translated by Makoto Ueda) Autumn in Melbourne is a fine time to take a trip to the Prahran Market and visit the wild mushroom man, Damien Pike. For many years he’s been sourcing and selling mushrooms. Much … [Read more…]

Posted in: artists, Historical, Mavericks & Renegades, Mythology, Nature Tagged: Alice in Wonderland, Ancient Mythology, Damien Pike, elves, F.W. Rolfe, fairies, fungi, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Melbourne, Mycology, Prahran Market, R.T. Rolfe, The Romance of the Fungus World, witches

Phoenix Rising

January 4, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

  Phoenix Rising   ‘Hope. It’s like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It’s a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it’s the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.’ Tahereh Mafi   Moira Finucane … [Read more…]

Posted in: Historical, Melbourne, Mythology, Observations, writers & creatives Tagged: 2021, Ancient Myths, burlesque, Finucane, hope, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Moira Finucane, Mythology, Phoenix, Phoenix Rising, Phoenix Year, Tahereh Mafi

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