19 Thursday Jul 2012
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I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice
how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.
Ransom Riggs
Taking less tentative steps forward…
17 Tuesday Jul 2012
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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.
11 Wednesday Jul 2012
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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…
07 Saturday Jul 2012
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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….
04 Wednesday Jul 2012
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© 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…
26 Tuesday Jun 2012
© 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…
24 Sunday Jun 2012
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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?
23 Saturday Jun 2012
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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.)
17 Sunday Jun 2012
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© 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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15 Friday Jun 2012
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© 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
Satin & Sand 