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Beautiful Valentine’s Day Thoughts…

14 Tuesday Feb 2023

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Chocolate Truffles, Emil Ludwig, Love, Photography, Valentine's Day

© Joan Currie My champagne and raspberry truffles.

Both feel that this first touch of a hand in a cab, even if it was expected by the woman, means a decision of the first order; it contains, basically, all of what is to follow. There is nothing to compare with this gesture in all the living together of human beings. The man felt nothing at all like this, when he kissed that hand of the lady, at their introduction, though he was in this way very close to a strange lady; but today, the little touch of her glove means a surrender that makes both tremble.
– Emil Ludwig

Happy Valentine’s Day, especially to those who truly and unabashedly take joy in making those they love feel cherished! ❤️

Beautiful Surprises From the Other Side…

08 Sunday Jan 2023

Posted by Satin & Sand in Coronavirus pandemic, Grief, Lovve, Mother, Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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Beauty, Grief, Love, Mother, Photography

© Joan Currie

Come to me in my dreams
so I can see you smile,
take me back to yesterday
even if only for a while…

I missed my mother desperately in the weeks before the holidays. She passed during Covid when I wasn’t allowed to visit her in the hospital. “Passed” isn’t the right word – more like “vanished, ” “disappeared” – “pouf” and she’s gone. Really gone.

My Mom had been the touchstone for my entire life. After she died, a deep grief, way beyond tears, burrowed into my marrow and appeared to be settling in for the duration. When suddenly, several days before Christmas, I started to find in the most unexpected places: photos of us together, her beautiful calligraphy-scripted book inscriptions, loving letters, birthday cards, and postcards from her world travels. These sweet and precious little Easter eggs were hidden away to be found when I needed her the most – when I needed the reassurance that she was not gone, departed, but very much with me still. Thank you, Mom!

Beautiful Valentine’s Day plans…

07 Monday Feb 2022

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Love, Mary Oliver, New York City, Valentine's Day

© James Currie – NYC

In winter
all the singing is in
the tops of the trees
where the wind-bird

with its white eyes
shoves and pushes
among the branches.
Like any of us

he wants to go to sleep,
but he’s restless —
he has an idea,
and slowly it unfolds

from under his beating wings
as long as he stays awake.
But his big, round music, after all,
is too breathy to last.

So, it’s over.
In the pine-crown
he makes his nest,
he’s done all he can.

excerpt from White-eyes by Mary Oliver

I liked where we lingered and kissed and made plans for Valentine’s Day.

Polishing Up on Valentine’s Day…

14 Sunday Feb 2021

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Anaïs Nin, February 14th, Lauren DiMarco, Love, Valentine's Day

© Lauren DiMarco

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. – by Anaīs Nin

I know that our love is still alive – it just needs a careful polishing.

Models: Lauren DiMarco and Oleg Galagan

Thoughts of Love…

07 Sunday Feb 2021

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Beauty, Lauren DiMarco, Love, Poetry, Sonnet XXVII

© Lauren DiMarco

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head,
To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired:
For then my thoughts–from far where I abide–
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul’s imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,

Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.
Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee, and for myself, no quiet find.
Sonnet XXVII by William Shakespeare

In that wonderful place between wakefulness and sleep, I think of you.

Model: Lauren DiMarco

A Romance Journal for 2021…

14 Thursday Jan 2021

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Beauty, Journal, Love, romance


Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are. by Carolyn V. Hamilton

For my eyes only, I will capture every delicious detail of this wonderful New Year!

Photograph © Joan Currie

Beautiful Useful Moves Detected…

30 Thursday May 2013

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ireland, Kiss, Lauren DiMarco, Love

Lauren DiMarco in Ireland 2

Lauren DiMarco in Ireland © Joan Currie

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write,
And ever since it grew more clean and white,
Slow to world-greetings, quick with its “O, list,”
When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst
I could not wear here plainer to my sight, 
Than that first kiss…
from First time he kissed me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Grateful for the small yet sacred declarations of love…

Bursting at the seams…

18 Sunday Nov 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Crafts, Design, Fashion, Reflections, Relationships

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Beauty, In Absence, Love, Relationships, watercolor

© Joan Currie – watercolor

Absence extinguishes a minor passion and intensifies a great one – as the wind blows out a candle but fans a fire.
from In Absence by François , Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Trying to wait patiently for your return…

Regrouping…

11 Sunday Nov 2012

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Labyrinth of Desire, Love, Relationships, Rosemary Sullivan, watercolor

© Rachel Valley

© Rachel Valley

She does not yet  know that real love does not demand perfection.
from Labyrinth of Desire by Rosemary Sullivan

But she is about to meet the man who will teach her …

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Beautiful Holding Tight…

17 Wednesday Oct 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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Beauty, Fashion, Love, Photography, Red dress, Relationships

© Joan Currie

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. – Anonymous

Waiting for that great big crazy love to come again…

Model: Carole Morey

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