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37 Beautiful Love Songs…

02 Wednesday Feb 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Music, Photography, Reflections

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33 Beautiful Love Songs, beautiful, Beauty, Lauren DiMarco, Love, Love songs, Music, Owen Buenaventura, Photography, playlist, postaweek2011, Tobi Klanner, Valentine's Day

© Owen Buenaventura

As in the movie, High Fidelity, it can be very tricky coming up with just the right playlist to set the stage for L-O-V-E on Valentine’s Day. My list (a work in progress) is somewhat ecclectic, but I hope it will set the mood just the same!

1.  When a Man Loves a Woman – Percy Sledge
2.  Falling Slowly – Glen Hansard
3.  Kiss – Tom Jones
4.  Marie – Randy Newman
5.  Michelle – Beatles
6.  L’Amour existe encore – Celine Dion
7.  It had to be You – Rod Stewart
8.  Say that you love me – Loudon Wainwright
9.  Besame Mucho – Diana Krall
10. One Fine Day – Natalie Merchant
11. Mon Mec a Moi – Patricia Kaas
12. Jersey Girl – Bruce Springsteen
13. Southern Cross – Crosby, Stills & Nash
14. Back at One– Brian McKnight
15. Bring me to Life – Evanescence
16. Can’t Help Falling in Love – Andrea Bocelli
17. One – U2
18. Me & Mrs. Jones – Billy Paul
19. You are so Beautiful – Joe Cocker
20. Beauty and the Beast – Peabo Bryson & Celine Dion
21. Somebody to Love – Jefferson Airplane
22. Unforgettable – Natalie and Nat “King” Cole
23. More than Words – Eric Clapton
24. Addicted to Love – Robert Palmer
25. Strangers in the Night – Frank Sinatra
26. The Power of Love – Huey Lewis and the News
27. I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bonnie Raitt
28. Love Story – Taylor Swift
29. Love Me Tender – Elvis Presley
30. Love the One You’re With – Crosby, Stills & Nash
31. On Bended Knee – Boys II Men
32. Moon River – Audrey Hepburn
33. Ma Cherie Amore – Stevie Wonder
34. Stop! In the Name of Love –  The Supremes
35. Love is the Drug –  Roxy Music
36. L-O-V-E – Nat “King” Cole
37. Lady in Red – Chris de Burgh

Models: Lauren DiMarco & Tobi Klanner

The Month of Love…

01 Tuesday Feb 2011

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

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beautiful, Beauty, February, Love, Photography, postaweek2011, romance, Romantic, Valentine's Day

© Lauren DiMarco Photography by Slavic

When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever. Anonymous

February is my favorite month! I am an incurable romantic and although my expectations for Valentine’s Day have never been fulfilled, I still hold onto my fantasy that one day they will!

Models – Lauren DiMarco & Oleg Galagan

On Recognizing Love…

05 Sunday Sep 2010

Posted by stanfordblog in Photography, Reflections, Writing

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Emily Dickinson, Frederik Rubin, Love, Memoir, Photography, Pia Ulin, Writing

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Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson

Prompted by a discussion about the female romantic poets’ lives, my English professor told the class about an offer of marriage that she had received some years earlier. Her suitor had sworn his undying love and devotion  – saying she was the first woman he had ever truly loved. He was utterly devastated when she said she could not marry someone with such a limited capacity for love.

I wondered why she dismissed him on a quantitative versus qualitative measure? A person may fall in and out of love all the time – does that make him more predisposed to form a lasting relationship? I think not. Surely the depth of a love, the recognition that the person you love is the one is some predictor for a lasting relationship, I just do not know how one would measure it.

© Pia Ulin

Singer – Frederik Rubin

Bittersweet: Love Letters…

19 Thursday Aug 2010

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Lauren DiMarco, Love, Love Letters, Marc Virata, Memoir, Patty Griffin, Writing

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How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead… Patty Griffin

Every now and then when I find myself alone on a Sunday afternoon I settle into my favorite wingback chair and place a jewel-encrusted box in my lap. In a ritualistic fashion, I reach inside and withdraw a bundle of letters held fast by a pale pink satin ribbon, untie it carefully and gently press open the pages of the first read.

Some of the letters are penned on elegant gold-edged stationary while others are on thin blue airmail sheets. They are manifestations of a sweet, naïve young love. Within the pages are poems of shameless yearning, devotion and imaginings of a world where all things seemed possible.

My fingers trace the tender words whose power has not paled over the years on reading after reading, rather they pull at my heartstrings more now than on first consideration. I truly appreciate the sentiments, knowing how rare and lovely a feeling it is to feel valued, prized – even worshipped.

I wonder how different my life today would have been if the spell of a particular suitor had not been broken. But broken it was and it is a pity that the lovely words memorialized here had been confined to these pages alone.

© Joan Currie – My Love Letters

Model – Lauren DiMarco

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