Things i loved so much about my Saturday:
~waking up early and sipping my coffee on the porch when
the stars were still out no less:)
~ puttering around barefoot all morning
~ kissing my dog and watching her tail go 'thump thump' with happiness
~listening to music (and then also to silence)
~ finishing a short story i have been working on about a princess snail
~ making my homemade curried lentil burgers
~buying a fresh box of street chalk to leave happy messages around
the world when i travel
~ noticing the first sprinkling of freckles I get every summer on my nose
~realizing i have my whole life ahead of me for kissing and smiling
~painting my fingernails red which makes taking photos even more
fun for some reason
~ what did you love about today?
have a perfectly heavenly Sunday :)
but what is love...?:)
:)
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I had a marvelous weekend. We went to Whistler for
the weekend and shopped for candy bags and strolled blithely
through the village discovering marvelous sculptures and then we
met friends and went out to dinner in the most wonderful pub as
far as I am concerned and ate pizza and drank red wine singing and
took photo's naturally and colored our place mats with those broken
crayons they give the kids and I got the film (and the book )
'Into the Wild" for mothers day which we watched and it made me
cry buckets of course and all in all in was a perfectly wonderful
weekend and then we drove home which is just a breathtakingly
beautiful drive listening to a glorious mixed cd darling Meg made me.
...and now I am home and ...well...tuckered out completely
~ but in a very good way:)
How was your weekend? :)
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i love this photo i snapped in my child's classroom ~ i feel so
grateful that children can study the arts in school ~ and my
goodness, i mean seriously, poetry....how wondrous is that?:)
The weather is so utterly beautiful out today ~ the ocean is moody
and dark yet eerily still~ the air saturated with unshed raindrops
~ a glorious 'calm~before~the~storm~wuthering~heightsish"
sort of morning. I am feeling so insanely gladsome about everything
lately which just fills me with silly joy. Happiness is flying around
the room like butterflies and I feel so hungry for life (my appetite
is insatiable) ~ and today I am so thrilled for the god of small
contentments such as....
~this lovely song by leonard cohen...
~the photography of tina modotti...
~the beauty of long awaited moments that finally arrive and are even
better than you ever imagined...
~the happiness a single word can make you feel ...like shimmeringly...
~the joy of having what you love ~ love you back
~ a heartsome note card you receive in the mail from a girl named
martha (with a perfectly sublime jasmine tea enclosed as well)
~the marvel of raindrops on your lips as you walk your dog in the mossy woods
~singing out loud in the car filled with goofy kids eating gummy worms
~ wearing purple mascara and noticing how your eyes pop in a dramatic way
~colors...pale lemon...apple green....wine~drunk plum....
~and the sweetest little song by leonard cohen...
~the sweetest little song ~
'you go your way
i'll go your way too'
wishing you a beautiful day filled with unexpected surprises and love:)
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i was feeling oh~so~melodramatic this week and let me tell you
that purple is absolutely a "must" for this mood ~ you feel
completely validated and understood when you are moping
around all dramatic and wearing purple:) anyway a little
drama and nonsense never hurt anyone...i highly recommend it.
It is a lazy lazy Sunday. A perfect Sunday that began with a
lemon tart and coffee while listening to a mixed cd of Van
Morrison songs my friend made me. I have been reading my
annotated Alice in Wonderland before bed ~ trying to encourage
my dreams to engage in a bit of curious, complicated kind of
nonsense. Like Susanna's. She always has the best dreams and
I must say I am quite jealous.
So when you go to bed reading Alice in Wonderland it makes
sense to wake up to a lemon tart of such buttery flaky magnificence
you are sure the day cannot get any better and you might as well
go straight back to bed. Only I didn't . I am writing my blog post
instead which makes me feel so happy~yay! inside:)
It's not as if I really have anything startling to say. It's a lazy Sunday
~ a 'tea and books' Sunday and perhaps a knee socks Sunday as well.
And I may take a picture of my knee socks today. Just for fun .
Although I have been moody it has been a beautiful week for love.
My best friend sent me an e~mail saying she missed me and
invited me to help out photographing her play this week
(and I can't wait:) and another friend did something so utterly
beautiful for me this morning ~ gave me that "opening your door
and finding a present on the front porch just for you" kind of feeling.
So I feel so loved and my heart is entirely lifted by this happiness
...I am all astonishment:)
I think I am going to make some buttermilk biscuits today and
a soup ~ I am not sure what kind of soup but certainly a
beautiful soup. And it is supposed to be really warm and
summery today ~ raise your hands ~ who loves sunshine? :)
dream about me...
(loving my Moby today)
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I'm back. And miserable. Feeling very sorry for myself and overly
mopey. This of course being the price you pay for an utterly magically
delightful time in New York ~ so today I am so completely grateful for
my blog as I am just bursting with conversation about my trip and I
can chatter away to you to ease my broken heart:) Make yourself
a chai and I will fill you in on the highlights which include...
~ meeting at very long last a true kindred spirit in Susanna who I
must say is my greatest inspiration in photography ~ I have always
been captivated and completely in awe of her dark and poetic and
mysteriously enchanting images ~ which delightfully enough
compliment her warmhearted , funny and 'light~as~a~cloud'
personality.
~ also meeting Karen who has the worlds biggest heart ~ and who
,well, is also just so gifted artistically it is impossible to imagine
what she will create next as she is graced with the eye popping ability
to work in any medium ~ when you see her work on her blog it is so
tactile and layered I always have this intense urge to reach out and
caress her work ~
On my first day in New York I met Karen and Susanna at Karen's
friends Joy's apartment. We spent a fantastic girly day wandering
around the city exploring fabulous shops, taking photo's and sipping
pinkberry smoothies.
Karen , despite being very tired after a busy few days of staying with
friends warmly offered to drive Susanna and I to her gorgeous home in
PA where we climbed into pajamas and chattered over red wine and
chocolates. (don't you just love those words? red wine and chocolates...
...sigh ~ even the word 'pajamas' makes me happy:)
The next day I got into a bit of trouble as Karen drove Susanna and I
(after a very perfect bowl of yogurt and granola with flaxseed and dried
fruits aaaaaand sublime coffee for breakfast which is very important I
think to mention) ~ to a barn filled with antiques where I bought
a fabulous GREEN!!! vintage Royal typewriter (which believe me
was not at all easy to get into my suitcase to take back home and also
believe me I really didn't need as I already have several vintage
typewriters but it was green so what can i say)
and Susanna and Karen bought hardware and mysterious
locks and keys.
~ visiting the Museum of Modern Art with my sweet friend
David and falling hopelessly in love with the Olafur Eliasson
exhibit (Take Your Time) of provocative and enlightening immersive
environments ~ my favorites after much anguish in decision were
the ventilator and "I only see things when they move" ~ this
meditative and wondrous installation of light passing through a
rotating filter glass panel which would cast shifting prismatic bands
of colors on the surrounding walls... I fell in a trance in that room
and could have stayed there i think possibly even forever in a strange
euphoric bliss.
I have been going through Olafur's interviews and work on youtube
and I have to say that geeky~science~artists are endlessly
fascinating to me:)
~enjoying wine, appetizers and conversation after the exhibit in this
charming little spot in the West Village called Turks and Frogs ~ a
softly lit little wine bar with colorful turkish lamps and flickering
candles in corners alongside couches and piles of inviting books. It
is now OFFICIALLY my very most favorite little secret place in
New York ~ only it isn't really a secret now because I so generously
shared it with you:)
~ walking through Central Park in a lovely oh~so~soft grey~rose
light infused rain with little buds bursting everywhere in a blissful
lightness of being state of mind
~ discovering a wonderful book vendor in Soho and buying vintage
copies of "The Annotated Alice" and "The Collected Drawings of
Aubrey Beardsley" who I rather have a feeling Susanna would quite
love as well:)
~slipping in and out of pefectly perfect cafes throughout my trip
for cappucino because taking that kind of time is very important on
any trip in my humble but knowledgeable opinon:)
Well, speaking of cappucino I think I will go drown my sorrows
in a cup of coffee and a comforting slice of lemon drizzle cake ~
and catch up on all of your beautiful blogs I have missed so dearly:)
Have a beautiful week!
round rainbow....:)
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On Sunday I...
~ate a cupcake (above) in the morning and in the evening as well:)
~listened to this lovely happy sunday song over and over
~fretted about being on a plane on Wednesday because anyone
who knows me knows I HATE FLYING HATE IT CAN'T STAND IT HATE IT!!!!!
(sniffles)
~made a few wishes
~ found two really gorgeous duck feathers by a lake
~ came up with such a beautiful idea for a photo which
i will shoot in May
~ fell asleep in the car with the sun on my face waiting for the
ferry
~ smiled a lot for no good reason making passerby's look at me oddly...
How was your Sunday? Anything going on I should know about?
:)
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Music expresses that which cannot be said, on which it is
impossible to be silent."
~Victor Hugo ~
Yesterday I had a cello lesson and slowly but surely my hand is
learning to hold the bow in just the right way~ and I can just tell
my (rented) cello loves me because it echoes those mysterious
hesitant longings of my heart in a way that words never have.
It was such a perfect day ~ I skipped up the stairs to my lesson
and chatted about the meaning of the sea with my teacher
and sipped roobios tea and floated home with the wind in my hair
thinking I really must take my cello to the ocean and photograph
her with that glorious tempestuous background while feeling
magically, completely in love with life ~ and oh...well...
... it was just so...nice:)
the cello is my true love but who knows?...perhaps i will also
eventually learn the upright bass:)
Hope you have a magical weekend ~ I am getting ready for
my trip to New York next week which includes a blogger girls
get together/slumber party with Karen and Susanna ~ yay:)
As well I have dusted off my vintage canon camera and bought
several rolls of film ~ yes!!! actual film for my trip.
(sigh of pleasure)
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