Isabel Allende articulates in “Portrait in Sepia” two creeds I have come to embrace over the years.
Here’s one about photography and writing:
My nightmares are a blind journey through the shadowy caverns where my oldest recollections lie locked in the deep strata of consciousness. Photography and writing are a tentative way of seizing those moments before they vanish, of fixing those memories in order to give meaning to my life.
And another about friendship and the amazing benefits that come with it:
Marriage is a commonsense affair, something neither of us has much of. The fact that we are not married enhances our love. That way each of us can do what we do; we have our own spaces, and when we are about to erupt, there is always the escape of living apart for a few days and coming back together when we yearn for kisses.
Dear Elizabeth 