17 Sunday Jan 2021
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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!
23 Wednesday Dec 2020
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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.
20 Sunday Dec 2020
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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage. – Georgia O’Keeffe
Grateful for a day dedicated to my creative pursuits…
07 Wednesday Oct 2020
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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!
24 Tuesday Mar 2015
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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…
01 Wednesday Jan 2014
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Danielle LaPorte, Jonathan Fields, Lauren DiMarco, New beginnings, New Year's Resolutions, Photography
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
16 Friday Aug 2013
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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…
30 Sunday Jun 2013
Posted in Art, Dance, Design, Music, Photography
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© 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…
27 Sunday Jan 2013
Posted in Design, Photography, Reflections, Travel
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…
08 Tuesday Jan 2013
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© 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…
Satin & Sand 