Skinny Dipper

I'm so terribly sad because I haven't gone skinny dipping once this summer!

I'm not sure I'm quite at a point where I'm prepared to jump into the East River, but still!

I have a few more weeks to make this happen for myself! Wish me luck!

I think we can all agree, (even the babies that read this blog) there is hardly anything better than being nude and feeling the rush of cold water on a hot day.

With friends!

Or alone.

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Well Said Sundays; A Quote to Note X

"Disco is just jitterbug."

-Fred Astaire

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Important (?) Question

Why do people say they are "in their own bubble" as though a bubble is an impenetrable structure? Shouldn't it be their own "coffin" or "cave' or something like that? Perhaps not, as its not good to be in a bubble; they are lucky then that bubbles are so easily destroyed.

 

I probably sound stoned. I am not.  I just liked this picture and felt I'd better write something heavy-handed to go along with it. That is what I love to do, after-all! 

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Well Said Sundays; A Quote to Note IX

This past Monday was "Friendship Day"

Never heard of that before, but thought I'd devote this weeks quotes to the subject of friendship.

Personally, I have always been incredibly lucky with the friends in my life; I feel very, very rich.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus  

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde 

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich  

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust  

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
  Saint Jerome 

A Moment for Tackiness IV; Heaven on Earth Addition

I still really do want these things. 

I'm freaking out. I don't want all this stuff, I NEED IT.  I also NEED adult sized sneakers that have the capability of shooting out little roller stamps...I'm talk to you Converse.

I didn't have the Treasure Rocks Box, BUT I did have the Tresure Rocks, rocks to gems converter jar, which was pure magic.

Beach Road Trip

Sounds good right now.

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Dressing Room

There is something endlessly interesting about watching a woman prepare herself for the stage, or for daily life; there is something sacred and personal about the space in which she does this.

This isn't a dressing room shot, but I have a hard time resisting ballerinas.

 

As a little girl, I always took great pleasure in watching my mother put on her lipstick and pick out something  to wear for a date with my father or for a dinner party. It is a special ritual between mother and child, the child watching in awe, and the mother genuinely concerned with the child's opinion.

 

The way a person's face changes when they look in the mirror can be both telling and mystifying.

 

There is nothing more fun than getting ready with girlfriends.

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Immobile Travelers

 

As a child, there was always something I found absolutely mystifying about figureheads on ships. 

I  found them somehow scandalous and sexy. There was also a part of me that, I think, considered becoming one a possible career path. In part I  looked up to these women and yet couldn't quite tell if the were friend of foe.

 

I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about them. I definitely think they are beautiful, but I still feel slightly intimidated . Or maybe I am a little judgmental , I think of them as being loose women, or somehow lacking in morals; in actuality they are probably just free spirits and much more forward thinking than I, not to mention the fact that they are constantly surrounded by large groups of raucous men.

 

Not small.

In The Wood-carver’s Shop, illustration by Howard Pyle for “By Land and Sea”, published in Harper’s Monthly, December 1895.

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How Did I Miss This??

 

Can't wait for the DVD.