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No worries …

31 Tuesday Mar 2015

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

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carefree, J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan, Youth

Lauren Dimarco in Ireland2

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way
Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a 
garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she 
must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and 
cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ That was all that passed between
them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always
know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

J. M. Barrie from Peter Pan

I wish I could remember what it felt like to be carefree…

Lauren DiMarco in Ireland.

A life worth living…

16 Friday Aug 2013

Posted by Satin & Sand in Aging, Art, Design, Garden, Reflections

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Alfred Austin, Art, Charcoal sketch, Poetry, Summer, Youth

Joan Currie Iris

African White Iris © Joan Currie

When Summer, lingering half-forlorn,
On Autumn loves to lean,
And fields of slowly yellowing corn
Are girt by woods still green;
When hazel-nuts wax brown and plump,
And apples rosy-red,
And the owlet hoots from hollow stump,
And the dormouse makes its bed;
from Is Life Worth Living? – by Alfred Austin

This poem brought me back to the delicious summers of my childhood…

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A lasting fragrance…

07 Wednesday Aug 2013

Posted by Satin & Sand in Aging, Art, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships, Writing

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Aging, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Longfellow, Photography, Poetry, Time

Party dress by Joan Currie

Party dress @ Joan Currie

Maiden, that read’st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

from It Is Not Always May by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sometimes it is hard not to lament the passing of time…

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Still Dad…

14 Wednesday Mar 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Aging, Health, Photography, Reflections

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Aging, Father-Daughter, Parkinson's Disease, Photography

© Currie Family Archives

I’ve had an incredible life. Everything from here on out is just icing on the cake. – Dad before Parkinson’s Disease

My father continues to battle an unforgiving Parkinsonian warlord.

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