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Returning to a New Normal…

17 Sunday Jan 2021

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coffee shop, Dublin, Normal, Normalcy, Routine

© Joan Currie

In the rush to return to normal, use this time to consider which
parts of normal are worth rushing back to. – Dave Hollis

Although I don’t like to think of myself as bound to a daily routine, it is this routine that gives me
perspective, stability, and structure, and makes stepping out of it all the more wonderful and exciting!

Home for Christmas…

23 Wednesday Dec 2020

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Christmas, Humber River, I'll be Home for Christmas, Michael Bublé, Old Mill Bridge, Toronto

© David Dodds – Old Mill Bridge, Toronto

I am dreaming tonight of a place I love
Even more than I usually do
And although I know it’s a long road back
I promise you 

I’ll be home for Christmas
You can plan on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents on the tree.
from I’ll be Home for Christmas by Gannon, Kent, and Ram
sung here by Michael Bublé 

Best wishes to those who have been in lockdown and have perhaps spent too much time at home this year.
And Godspeed to those finding their way home in time for Christmas.

Finding time…

20 Sunday Dec 2020

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Art, Creativity, Georgia O'Keeffe, Photography, Reflections

© James Currie

To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage. – Georgia O’Keeffe

Grateful for a day dedicated to my creative pursuits…

A snapshot of the day….

07 Wednesday Oct 2020

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

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Happiness, Jane Kenyon, Photography, Poetry

© James Currie

There’s just no accounting for happiness
or the way it turns up like a prodigal
who comes back to the dust at your feet
having squandered a fortune far away.
from Happiness by Jane Kenyon

It was a day of happiness and it was wonderful!

Tea Time…

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Afternoon tea, Tea ceremony, Tea time

Navy teacup by Joan Currie

Teacup in acrylic © Joan Currie

The Tea Party

I had a little tea party
This afternoon at three.
‘Twas very small-
Three guests in all – 
Just I, myself and me.

Myself ate all the sandwiches,
While I drank up the tea;
‘Twas also I who ate the pie
And passed the cake to me.

By Jessica Nelson North (1891-1988)

A lovely cup of tea punctuates the day…

Designing a New Year …

01 Wednesday Jan 2014

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Danielle LaPorte, Jonathan Fields, Lauren DiMarco, New beginnings, New Year's Resolutions, Photography

Lauren DiMarco - Happy New Year's

Design is love. Good design is love – it’s well-thought. Good design considers everybody. It considers your emotions, it considers the ecology. There’s beauty in it. Good design – there’s always some kind of elegance to it.
by Danielle LaPorte in an interview with Jonathan Fields

Designing a big, beauteous, beguiling, and bodacious New Year!

Model: Lauren DiMarco

A life worth living…

16 Friday Aug 2013

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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…

RP-T-1948-88

Going with the flow…

30 Sunday Jun 2013

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Dance, Design, Music, Photography

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Art, Dance, Lauren DiMarco, Pitbull, Summer dance

© Joan Currie - Figure sketch by Lauren DiMarco & Skirt by Joan Currie

© Joan Currie – Figure sketch by Lauren DiMarco & Skirt by Joan Currie

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music,
and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable.
Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.  
Charles Baudelaire

Sometimes you can’t help but dance to the music…

Lift-off…

27 Sunday Jan 2013

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

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John Denver, Leaving on a Jet Plane, Photography, The Macarons Project, Travel

© Joan Currie

Cause I’m leaving on a jet plane
Don’t know when I’ll be back again…
Cover of John Denver’s song Leaving on a Jet Plane
 The Macarons Project

Putting aside my flight of fantasy for the real thing…

Resolutions interrupted…

08 Tuesday Jan 2013

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Eric Zorn, New Year's Resolutions, Promises, Sintra

© Joan Currie

© Joan Currie

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. – Eric Zorn

For once, I am hoping to keep the promises I made to myself…

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