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Lady Marmalade…

28 Saturday Apr 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Music, Photography, Reflections

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Lady Marmalade, One Day I'll Fly Away, Photography

© Vanessa

One day I’ll fly away
Leave all this to yesterday
Why live from dream to dream?
And dread the day when dreaming ends…
from One Day I’ll Fly Away – sung by Nicole Kidman

I got caught up in the nostalgia of my last post and set off to the salon to recapture the same sun kissed hair color of my younger years. Who knows what happened in the mixing of the chemicals, but I left the salon with hair the color of marmalade preserve!

Blooms at last…

26 Thursday Apr 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Garden, Photography, Reflections, Writing

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Emily Dickinson, Late-bloomer, Longing is like the Seed, Photography

© Joan Currie

Longing is like the Seed
That wrestles in the Ground,
Believing if it intercede
It shall at length be found.
Emily Dickinson 

Little did I know how long it would take some seeds to emerge.

Love’s light…

24 Tuesday Apr 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in America's Next Top Model, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships, Writing

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America's Top Model, beautiful, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Photography, Poetry, Soul-light Sonnet, Writing

© Khrystyana Kazakova

Even so, through eyes and voice, your soul doth move
My soul with changeful light of infinite love.
Sonnet XXVIII: Soul-Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 

Tell me, when did our love-light begin to dim?

Model: Khrystynana Kazakova

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Raw Masculinity…

23 Monday Apr 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Photography, Reflections, Relationships, Writing

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beautiful, D. H. Lawrence, Frank Torres, Micha Borodaev, Photography

© Frank Torres – Nuclear Photo

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don’t know ourselves.

Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like
burnt paper.
D.H. Lawrence 

I am yearning to feel that rush of untamed love again…

Model: Micha Borodaev
Photography: Frank Torres
http://franktphotography.com/index2.php#/home/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nuclear-Photo/198639900159690 

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Blue turned to gray…

22 Sunday Apr 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Fashion, Photography, Relationships, Writing

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Beauty, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Margaret Newlin, Photography, Rummy Makmur

© Rummy Makmur – Detail

But under some other moon
Maybe?
Under some unknown sun,
Again, we two, we two might be
Always again?
from Rain by Margaret Newlin 

I still find it hard to believe that you are gone.

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Avian Haunting…

19 Thursday Apr 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in America's Next Top Model, Design, Fashion, Photography, Relationships, Writing

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America's Top Model, Edgar Allan Poe, Fashion, Khrystyna Kazakova, Photography, Poetry, The Raven

© Khrystyana Kazakova

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was broken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”-
Merely this, and nothing more.
from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Who knows what radiant maiden may yet come rapping at a man’s heart?

© Khrystyana Kazakova

Model:
Khrystyana Kazakova

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A Lady…

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in America's Next Top Model, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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America's Top Model, beautiful, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Paul Eluard, Photography

© Khrystynana Kazakova

She will never close her eyes
And she does not let me sleep
And her dreams in the bright day
Make the suns evaporate
And me laugh cry and laugh
Speak when I have nothing to say
from Lady Love by Paul Eluard 

I miss the sweet intoxication that comes with first loves.

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Inside Out…

16 Monday Apr 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Design, Fashion, Photography, Reflections

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beautiful, Cottage style, Interior decorating, Photography, Sarah Ban Breathnach

© Joan Currie

If you create rooms with an authentic view, self-exploration must come before paint chips and fabric swatches.  Sarah Ban Breathnach

I have finally settled on a soft cottage look for my new home.

Blue Sphere…

14 Saturday Apr 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Design, Photography, Reflections, Writing

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh, beautiful, Blue sphere, Gift from the Sea, Marbles, Photography

© Joan Currie

The simplicity of first love, or friendliness, the mutuality of first sympathy seems, at its initial appearance – even if merely in exciting conversation across a dinner table – to be a self-enclosed world.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

I wish we had remained in that world…

The bond that binds us…

11 Wednesday Apr 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Design, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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beautiful, Bracelet, Brooke Fraser, Fashion, Photography, Relationship, Who Are We Fooling

© Joan Currie – Lauren DiMarco’s cuff bracelet

Better or worse
But what else can we do?
And better or worse
I am tethered to you
If it’s not either of us
Tell me who are we fooling?
lyrics from Who Are We Fooling by Brooke Fraser

Our bond can never be broken- no matter how hard we try.

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