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Fortifying my heart…

17 Tuesday Jul 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in America's Next Top Model, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Relationships, Writing

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America's Top Model, Fashion, Khrystyna Kazakova, Love, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, Photography, Poetry, Relationships, William Wordsworth

© Khrystyna Kazakova

What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind…
from Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth

Still searching for strength in the ruins of what was a beautiful life – rest in peace.

Among the hydrangeas…

11 Wednesday Jul 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Garden, Photography, Writing

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Again and Again - However We Know the Landscape of Love, Garden, Hydrangea, Photography, Poetry, Rilke

© Joan Currie

Again and again, however we know the landscape of love
and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,
and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others
fall: again and again the two of us walk out together
under the ancient tree, lie down again and again
among the flowers, face to face with the sky.
from Again And Again, However We Know The Landscape Of Love by Rilke

 Glorious palette of colors, glorious day of love…

Dear and loving husband…

07 Saturday Jul 2012

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

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Anne Bradstreet, Photography, Poetry, To my Dear and Loving Husband, Writing

© Carole Morey

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay,
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere
That when we live no more, we may live ever.
from To My Dear And Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet

You are adored still and forevermore….

212 degrees Fahrenheit…

04 Wednesday Jul 2012

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America's Top Model, Charles Swinburne, Fashion, Khrystyna Kazakova, Photography, Poetry

© 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…

Quick-change artist…

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Crafts, Design, Music

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Beauty, Fashion, Haider Ackermann, Lauren DiMarco, Photography

© Lauren DiMarco

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Trying to shed old habits…

Wrong number…

24 Sunday Jun 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Design, Music, Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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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?

Sum of its parts…

23 Saturday Jun 2012

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

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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.)

Happy Father’s Day…

17 Sunday Jun 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Design, Photography, Relationships

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Anne Geddes, Father's Day, Father's Day Cake, Photography

© Joan Currie

Only a dad but he gives his all,
To smooth the way for his children small,
Doing with courage stern and grim
The deeds that his father did for him.
This is the line that for him I pen:
Only a dad, but the best of men.
from Only a Dad by Edgar A. Guest 

Thanks to Dads, one and all!

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Page one…

15 Friday Jun 2012

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Art, Crafts, Fashion, Photography, Virginia Woolf

© Joan Currie – Journal cover

What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something looseknit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful that comes to mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk, or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through.
by Virginia Woolf

I created my journal cover (above) with a painted section of fabric from a vintage Joseph Ribhoff jacket.

Fabric Cover Construction Methods:
Creativity Prompt
Candace Jedrowicz
Country Living 

Time to hit the road…

14 Thursday Jun 2012

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

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Adventure, Dr. Seuss, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Oh the Places You'll Go!, Photography

© 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!

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