07 Saturday Jan 2012
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© Joan Currie – Vintage Underskirt
If this individuality is wiped away, the creative joy that crystallized it disappears, even if no material was lost, even if no atom was destroyed. And if it is lost, it is also a loss for the entire world. It is particularly precious because it is not universal. – Rabindranath Tagore
Bask in your own bright light.
03 Tuesday Jan 2012
Posted in Design, Music, Photography, Reflections
© Joan Currie
I’ll wait for you there
Like a stone
I’ll wait for you there
Alone
from Like a Stone by Audioslave
Time is my most precious and diminishing asset. This year I wait for no one…
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Year in Review
31 Saturday Dec 2011
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© Joan Currie - My Copper & Stainless Steel Journal
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Emerson
My journal is filled with wonderful memories of this year.
Wishing you and your loved ones all the very best for 2012!
30 Friday Dec 2011
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I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
from What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St. Vincent Millay
But what a song it was – it mattered not how short!
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On Recognizing Love
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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Angels
20 Tuesday Dec 2011
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© 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
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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
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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
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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.
Satin & Sand 