
August ~ on becoming 10….
“i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i…
“i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i…
“We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under… …
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. ~ Hans Christian Anderson “Images last for ever, our minds…
“When in doubt wear RED.” ~ Bill Blass “All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with…
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard These were the words from one of the many quotes that were both spoken and written in Laurie Anderson’s beautiful, mesmerizing,…
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Here are two articles ~ the first on cocktails, the second on clothes ~ that I wrote earlier…
“Happiness is the longing for repetition.” ~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984 I love the balance of repetition and novelty. Below are a trio of writings that hint at this balance ~ the…
“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution….
“one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well…” ~ virginia woolf ~~~~~~~ Above ~ “RED” #1, Feb 18th 2012 ~ Deb Durant, Heike Liss, Beth Ann McFadden, myself, Christopher Willits,…
I love goals ~ end of the year, mid-year, whenever. They propel me forward; and sometimes one needs this type of motivation… When I began this blog in May of 2014, I knew that I wanted…
“there is always an emotional element to anything you make.” ~ oscar de la renta ~~~~~ the things we love are always emotional. whether people, places, or yes, the things we make by hand or…
“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. but in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body. the heaviest of burdens…