Lascaux to France, Redux

Painting by Constant Troyon

Musée d’Orsay, Paris

January 30.

Dinner last night with old friends in Paris.

An apartment near the Louvre; courtyards, venerated staircases, improbably narrow doorways that one’s furniture many not quite fit though. The genuine warmth of greetings.

As is so often the case, conversation turns to inner work. Everyone thinks they kn…