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The painter and only woman to leave Picasso talks about success, style and intimacy

Françoise Gilot, painter and girlfriend of Picasso, talks success, style and intimacy

�� Listen to this I saw a post the other day on social media about the dog days of summer. I’m sure we’ve all heard of the dog days of summer, but I never knew it was so early in the summer season. I always believed the dog days of summer happened in late July or even early August when the sun is still very bright and high in the sky and days could be sweltering. I believed they were when the grass was dry from a long summer of heat. It seems I was partially right; I just had the starting date wrong. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the dog days of summer begin on July 3 and run t...

No one was listening July 1, 2021 I’m grateful to my friend Fakir Ayaz for drawing my attention to the famous saying of Andre Gide (1869) that, “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” I for one have written and lectured about our constitution, how flawed it is and how it needs change. So I will do it once more because it is the need of the times. The Almighty has enjoined us to “Choose our leaders from amongst ourselves” (meaning from within the Muslim ummah) and to, “Choose from amongst the best.�...

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