26 Monday Dec 2011
Posted in Music, Photography, Reflections
© Joan Currie - My Christmas Tree
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Angels We Have Heard on High by Andrea Bocelli and David Foster
Merry Christmas one and all!
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20 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Art, Crafts, Design, Photography, Reflections
© Joan Currie - Watercolor
Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven’s gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. – Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky’s score for the Nutcracker ballet is my favorite music of the holiday along with a dozen classic carols.
18 Sunday Dec 2011
Posted in Art, Crafts, Design, Food, Photography, Reflections
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Have a holly, jolly Christmas,
It’s the best time of the year,
I don’t know if there’ll be snow,
But have a cup of cheer.
A Holly Jolly Christmas by Johnny Marks – sung by Michael Bublé
Voilà – this year’s gingerbread house thanks to very thick royal frosting!
Photo: James Currie
08 Thursday Dec 2011
Posted in Design, Music, Photography, Reflections
© Joan Currie
Once I almost had you
And now I want you again
Sinful bodies, wings of a butterfly.
from Hrisna Tela, Kindla Motyli by Aneta Langerova
I prefer moths to butterflies in the way they are drawn to a flame.
Thanks to Svatava Pearce for the translation.
06 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Fashion, Photography, Reflections
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© Lauren DiMarco
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken.
It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
D.H. Lawrence
One heartbreak is enough – I do not wish for another.
04 Sunday Dec 2011
Posted in Art, Design, Fashion, Reflections, Relationships
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For a moment Anne’s heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes
faltered under Gilbert’s gaze and a rosy flush stained the paleness of her face.
from Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
I always have great hopes for a romantic holiday season.
29 Tuesday Nov 2011
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What is yellow? pears are yellow,
Rich and ripe and mellow.
from Color by Christina Rossetti
A pear – my favorite shape of late.
Watercolor © Joan Currie
26 Saturday Nov 2011
Posted in Garden, Photography, Reflections, Writing
© Joan Currie
The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry’s cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I’ll put a trinket on.
by Emily Dickinson – Autumn
My garden cherub beholds fall’s dramatic show of color.
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23 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in Art, Dance, Design, Photography, Reflections, Writing
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© Joan Currie
Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty? And yet it all seems limitless.
from The Sheltering Sky movie, based on the book by Paul Bowles
Thanksgiving is almost upon us – savor every sweet moment of it.
22 Tuesday Nov 2011
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Satin & Sand 