Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

by Isabel Vincent

“a place in your head where you are at peace with your life, with your decisions.”

never forget that romantic love is a practical exchange, a transactional agreement, and that attraction almost never lasts. “Attraction is the beginning, but who can predict where that will lead? Or when it will end?”

“Give of yourself, not yourself,”

“Love is being, not belonging. Giving and receiving, not possessing.”

The Little Prince, “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

He had often told me the story about the Baghdad servant who was sent out to the market to buy provisions for his master, a wealthy merchant. The servant bumped into Death at the market. Frightened, he borrowed his master’s horse and galloped to Samarra to escape his fate. Later, the merchant went to the market to confront Death himself. “Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?” he asked. Death looked amused. “That was not a threatening gesture,” said Death. “It was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.”

Ute Lemper performing Kurt Weill in her animated German. Maybe even Thelonius Monk.