The Toronto Star recently featured this article on Richard Burton's just released diary and
I thought you would enjoy this quote about Elizabeth Taylor (don't you just love romantic stuff like this, although it seems he was far from a saint):
Burton wrote of his wife (you’re forgiven for swooning):
"I have been inordinately lucky all my life but the greatest luck of all has been Elizabeth. She has turned me into a model man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody's fool. She is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography, she can be arrogant and wilful, she is clement and loving. She is Sunday's child, she can tolerate my impossibilities and my drunkenness, she is an ache in the stomach when I am away from her and she loves me. She is the prospectus that can never be entirely catalogued, an almanac for poor Richard. And I shall love her forever."
On a change of topic, here are some sweet potato leaves that have been growing all summer in the city. One year I planted some and when it was time to dig the pots up, I discovered wonderful purple sweet potatoes in the ground. I actually cooked them up in some soup and they were fresh and delicious, kind of like growing one's own vegetables! I lived to tell the tale!
I thought you would enjoy this quote about Elizabeth Taylor (don't you just love romantic stuff like this, although it seems he was far from a saint):
Burton wrote of his wife (you’re forgiven for swooning):
"I have been inordinately lucky all my life but the greatest luck of all has been Elizabeth. She has turned me into a model man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody's fool. She is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography, she can be arrogant and wilful, she is clement and loving. She is Sunday's child, she can tolerate my impossibilities and my drunkenness, she is an ache in the stomach when I am away from her and she loves me. She is the prospectus that can never be entirely catalogued, an almanac for poor Richard. And I shall love her forever."
On a change of topic, here are some sweet potato leaves that have been growing all summer in the city. One year I planted some and when it was time to dig the pots up, I discovered wonderful purple sweet potatoes in the ground. I actually cooked them up in some soup and they were fresh and delicious, kind of like growing one's own vegetables! I lived to tell the tale!
7 comments:
potato leaves?? nice
Richard Burton was an amazing actor. He and Elizabeth Taylor certainly had the most up and down sort of incredible marriage. Nice to read about, but I don't think I'd like it for myself. I think that's cool about the sweet potatoes. :-)
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were really magical. Great idea with the sweet potatoes! Valerie
He and Liz got married and divorced twice. Too bad their marriage didn't last. That soup must have been delicious!
ahhh, true love, stormy at times but true love, sweet potato in pots, wow, that is cool.They look beautiful
Oh, loved the peek into that diary! :) true, soul-baring love for her.
Love the sweet potato story! The foliage is lovely, too!
I've never seen purple sweet potatoes. Bet they were delicious!
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