If I were a...

Tuesday now and dreaming of Cape Cod, sitting in my home with the rain outside. I could not have felt more cozy and safe.  There is something so wonderful about the rain when you are home on a saturday. It almost forces us to nurture ourselves. Today, I would go right back to that moment (with a few dream accessories of course!)

1. These linens look so soft and perfect. I want to just float into them and stay there forever.
2. Wearing something cute of course!
3. I am a huge fan of almond oil.  It leaves the skin soft, smelling just amazing and not as oily as coconut oil.
4. These two of course cuddling right next to me (and my own cats duh). Gahh one day I will have a bunny!
5. Reading Murakami's 1Q84 (which I just bought).

an object for you...

How beautiful are these mirrors? That's all.

innovative thinking...

It's public projects like this one in Istanbul that really make clear how innovative some places are and how behind others are (like many of our own systems).  A Turkish company made a machine that releases food and water for the city's stray dogs in exchange for recycled plastic bottles. How BRILLIANT!  Really touches my heart strings.

Some things and things...

Ben and I are off to the Cape for a long weekend. I CANNOT wait to float in the pool, and lay in the sand and eat lots and lots of fried things!

Have you tried St. Germain before?  I never really knew much about the drink before some friends told me it was going to me the theme ingredient at their wedding. Now, I can't get enough!  Simply mix with gin and tonic and oh my, delish!

So it's 2014... any opinions on if this dress is too "white" to wear to a wedding!?!?!

When I was in Mexico last year I had the most wonderful, best, delicious pickled radishes of my life!  I have tried a few times to replicate, no deal.  I think I will give this one a go!

I really want to see this Jonathan Demme film, A Master Builder. It just has that perfect feel of
odd, sad and beautiful.

I lost my wallet! Or I can't find it, ek!  What about this colorful one?

How cools is a Library full of tools!  Check out this Portland, ME project and 

donate or simply get inspired!  There are many tools I would never invest in, but there are times, especially with all these amazing DYI's out there, that this project would really help.

Finally, this weeks report on how the earth, moon, sun and tides

affect your day.

Words for you...

via

To not be afraid of their thoughts

Grow up to understand the man across the street dressed in polyester

Deal the privilege out

Do not assume to crush the beauty of a city unto anothers majestic hopes

or compost the peaceful content of the town with your needs

Breath light with intent 

Step with all your weight into the earth

Your perfect body

Take care of this

So there is a place to sit your bones

To view birds through the window

And lift cups to your mouth

Thoughts for you...

"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." Stanley Kubrick

Art for you...

 

 

The work of Ditte Haarlov Johnsen is courageous and overwhelming (in both efforts and subjects). Simply put, powerful images and powerful people.

If I were a...

1. Hell yea I would get these shoes I have been eyeing for about a year!

2. And this pretty dress.

3. Then head over to Hollywood Forever Cemetery to watch this flick (my all time favorite...as a 16 year old ;)
4. And dream away the night, heading back here to look at the stars.

Typography of tears...

How often do you cry?  I aways think of crying as both a terrible and terrific thing about being human. Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher photographer over 100 tears wondering if tears of joy, tears of pain, tears of sadness  emulate different patterns of this human expression. 

What makes a good life...

eudaimonia: a life of activity governed by reason

Humans, me, spend SO much time thinking about how to be happy.  We read self-help books, we change jobs, we move across the country, we lose or gain weight, we drink wine, we take walks, we think and think and think about how to get to that place.  At times, it seems almost as though we have lost the ability to actually be happy within the "search."

A great read on the subject here.

THINKING

 SLEEPING

 MOVING

LOVING

Some things and things...

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” Yoko Ono

I really believe this.  In reflection can dreams feel as tangible as memories.  So if you fly to Fiji on a kitty cat in your dreams, maybe, somewhere you really have.  X

Here is to a wonderful weekend of dreams and realities and love and space.  In the meantime...

I think this weekend might call for my favorite summer, be bad cocktail.  Maybe I will try this one! via .

Oops no she didn't.  Oops, yes I did.

I have a ridiculous amazing amount of dried chamomile that good friends brought for me from Israel.  It's too hot to drink and I can;t seem to get on top of making Iced Tea, so I think I've got just the idea! Cold chamomile compress anyone?

I love Elizabeth Moss and I love films with subtle atmospheric terror. I want to see this!

LISTEN!  I am not a huge GP fan.  The things she says and posts kill me a little inside.  And her total public unawareness of her privilege yikes.  I thought people paid publicists to take care of that kinda of stuff! Anyway I DO love the recipes in her cookbook.  And this one... I just love making a huge batch and eating all week.

Speaking of beautiful terror.  I love the work of Ana Teresa Barboza.

Finally, this weeks report on how the earth, moon, sun and tides

affect your day.

Words for you...

180 is something someone told me a long time ago

when I was learning the truth

still learning

when I did not know circles could not hold the night

and gravity could not breath in the sea

it was a sharp thing, a line not a curve in a subject failed 

I am always turning 180 to find myself

and I  look everywhere

and I am not

and I am

with every loss less of myself

I have learned that circles contain everything in fact

every drop of water, every piece of love

even the night with my eyes made in the shape make a beautiful whole

and gravity

I am not sure

I have learned anything

because I can breath in the sea 

under the water I can choose to breath into oblivion

peaceful finding where the holes of my heart - those pieces - have been missing

with that love

and I understand nothing now or then not later.

Song for you...

I loved First Aid Kit's first album "The Lion's Roar" and am just listening to "Stay Gold".  But I CAN'T get enough of this pretty litte song.

Art for you...

 I just LOVE these image, lingering with haunting mystery and overwhelmed with beauty.

Artist:  Ariko Inaoka

If I were a....

1. I would wear this lovely piece.
2. Over this cute dress.
3. Drinking mint tea.
4. On my country holiday.
5. Whilst writing notes and poems.

Floating in pools on a Monday...

It's Monday.  And though we are all "back" to our computers and or job, it is still important to dream. Close your eyes and where else would you be?  Could you be?  Today I dream of simply floating in a pool and staring up ant the sky and trees.  One of the simpler pleasures in life.

Though these pools might not be simple to get to, they are simple in that they are natural and given to us from sweet mother earth.

Marieta Islands, Mexico

Giola, Thassos, Greece

Havasu Falls, Supai, Arizona

Havasu Falls, Supai, Arizona