Marilyn Monroe Exhibition

It is now fifty years since Marilyn Monroe passed away, and on March 9 a new exhibition will open at the Getty Images Gallery in London, showing original dresses and costumes worn by Marilyn herself, as well as never-seen-before photographs of the star when she was a child, and glamorous photos taken at different premieres.

"Private Monroe memorabilia collector David Gainsborough Robert has kindly loaned us Marilyn's dresses wich the public can see in London for the first time ever, making this exhibition a perfect tribute to one of Hollywood's greats", says Getty Images Gallery director Louise Garczewska.

I'm reading "Fragments", containing Marilyn Monroe's own letters, poems and notes right now, so this exhibition would be really nice to see! After reading most of that book she seems so much more fragile, insecure and depressed to me, than the glitzy surface she showed the audience...

Here is one of her poems from the book:

Only parts of us will ever

touch parts of others - 

one's own truth is just

that really - one's own truth.

We can only share the

part that is within another's knowing acceptable

so one

is for most part alone.

As it is meant to be in

evidently in nature - at best perhaps it could make

our understanding seek

another's loneliness out.

Coffee Time!

Yesterday I met my dear friend Jens for coffee. As a true gentleman he brought a present for me! When I unwrapped the brown paper package...

...decorated with tassels! I found this:

The book consisting of Marilyn's own diary entries, poems and letters. It will be a joy to read!

During our conversation Jens said something very wise! He said that our feet feel best if they change shoes a lot. So we should all have at least seven different pairs of shoes - one pair for each day of the week. I think we should have one pair for each day of the month! To make our feet stay healthy of course. He also mentioned something about rose petal marmalade...