04 Wednesday Jul 2012
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© Khrystyna Kazakova
And her lips opened amorously, and said-
I wist not what, saving one word – Delight.
And all her face was honey to my mouth,
And all her body pasture to mine eyes;
from Love and Sleep by Charles Swinburne
Turning up the heat on this 4th of July…
24 Sunday Jun 2012
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Bronx, Lady Gaga, Lauren DiMarco, NYC, Photography, Relationships, Telephone, Travel
© Lauren DiMarco – Bronx Telephone
We’re sorry the number you have reached is not in service at this time
Please check the number, or try your call again.
from Telephone by Lady Gaga
Why do we talk so much on the phone yet fail to communicate?
23 Saturday Jun 2012
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Bananarama, Cruel Summer, Einstein, Harlem, Lauren DiMarco, NYC, Photography, Travel
© Lauren DiMarco – Harlem
The city is crowded
My friends are away
And I’m on my own
It’s too hot to handle
So I got to get up and go.
lyrics from Cruel Summer by Bananarama
Sometimes the details create the bigger picture.
(Note: Einstein had a different idea about the sum of its parts.)
21 Thursday Jun 2012
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America's Top Model, Khrystyna Kazakova, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Resolutions, Summer Solstice, The Scholar Gipsy
© Khrystyna Kazakova
For whom each year we see
Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new;
Who hesitate and falter life away,
And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day-
from The Scholar Gipsy by Matthew Arnold
Summer Solstice – a time to begin anew with the New Year’s resolutions that have fallen short.
14 Thursday Jun 2012
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© Lauren DiMarco
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…
from Oh, the Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss
Stepping out after months of planning!
12 Tuesday Jun 2012
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© Lauren DiMarco
Everyone has a “best friend” during each stage of life – only the precious few have the same one.
In the summer before starting high school, a girl with a charming British accent moved into the house across the street from me. We were inseparable for three years – pouring over Seventeen magazines, sewing matching outfits, and attending Canadian Girl in Training classes.
I wish we had kept in touch.
11 Monday Jun 2012
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© Joan Currie
All over town people are putting on their costumes.
from Dressing up for the Carnival by Carol Shields
I loved recapturing some carefree moments of my youth at the county fair.
© Joan Currie
© Joan Currie
05 Tuesday Jun 2012
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America's Top Model, Arturo Torres, Fashion, Gotye, Khrystyana Kazakova, Love, Photography, Relationships, Somebody That I Used To Know
© Arturo Torres
Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it’s an ache I still remember.
lyrics from Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye
We are now just points on each other’s timelines.
Model: Khrystyna Kazakova
02 Saturday Jun 2012
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The more I search for my significance,
Seems the more I disappear.
And I wonder, have I made a difference in anybody’s life
Since I’ve been here.
And I can hear your laughter
It’s the sweetest sound I’ve ever known
I don’t know how love happens,
But I know I’ not alone.
And I do have faith in you.
lyrics from Faith in You by Randy Travis
I have always had your back, too.
01 Friday Jun 2012
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© Joan Currie
If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love’s sake only. Do not say,
‘I love her for her smile – her look – her way
Of speaking gently, – for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’ –
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee – and love,
so wrought.
from If Though Must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Surely after all these years our love is transcendent.
Satin & Sand 