We had grown quite a few sedums in the Jewel Garden, but although they started out wonderfully well in spring, by midsummer they were spread-eagled like an inebriated octopus, their fleshy stems quite unable to support the weight of the flower heads.
Sookie's search for answers started off wonderfully with her having Lafayette try to communicate with the being that she saw in her bathroom in last week's episode ("I ain't Whoopi Goldberg in 'Ghost.'").
Her first letter, after she discovered he was alive, starts with wonderfully Russian asperity: "Levi, if I didn't know that actions should be judged by their motives and not by their results, I would reproach you for your silence …" But her feelings had not been changed by war and tyranny.
She invited us inside for a minute, and started telling us wonderfully complete, sweeping, emotional stories about Mardi Gras Indians, Creole in-laws, police riots, and Seventh Ward second lines.
Fred has been diagnosed with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and has started saying the most wonderfully strange things.
We started off with another wonderfully seasoned dish of garbanzos that included chorizo and ham, tomato, green peppers and onions.
That blissful sense of community started with the soldiers, wonderfully skilled and maddeningly headstrong, insubordinate at times but ultimately doggedly looking out for each other.
…And she could hear it happening, the audience could see our feet, and then she started laughing at how wonderfully she had just failed.
I was bound to the man, who was wonderful, and also to the story of his life, which did not start off so wonderfully.
You might want to start with the wonderfully nimble dancing Ganesha, a 10th-century North Indian sandstone rendering of that elephant-headed Hindu god of success, at Carlton Rochell (121 East 71st Street, through next Friday).
