Douglas Coupland | Destined to Meet

(image) Marilyn Monroe & Joe Dimaggio, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt

"You are my trailer park"
"And you, Anna-Louise, are my tornado"
Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet.

Happy Earth Day!

"With all that anxiety you get yourself worked up over the small stuff. Sometimes you just have to stop and feel yourself spinning on a ball that is floating through space." - my dad

This is a photograph from the Voyager1 mission titled Pale Blue Dot. You can see earth in the orangish band closest to the right.
It makes you realize that even an entire planet full of worries is tiny compared to the vastness of the universe, doesn't it?

This Shaking Keeps me Steady

"This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.

What falls away is always. And is near.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

I learn by going where I have to go."

T. Roethke

(image) Rodney Smith via English Muse

Two Paths Diverged in a Wood

{Some of the best advice I have ever received}

S: "I just feel really lost."

S: "What do you mean you're lost? Put one foot in front of the other and start walking. You made a choice. Now it's time to live it. I know you - and you will. You already have. You are going to live it and be happy."

(image) Hailey Golich

Happy 4th of July!

Independence day.

The Time Traveler's Wife

"Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning we when we wake up we forget all about each other"
- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

(image) Christi Dame via Rockstar Diaries

Stop and Smell the ...

(image) pretty good

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* i have roses in my new front yard in Portland! I never thought a plant could make me so content.

Home Is Where ...

"Don't forget what you've learned all you give is returned
And if life seems absurd what you need is some laughter
And a season to sleep and a place to get clean" Bright Eyes

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* I told Michelle that this summer she had to recontextualize her home to be about her, not what she lost there. I give good advice, but very seldom follow it. Today I'm going to start.

Familiar? :Madonna & The Sartorialist

(1) A still from the Madonna video "Frozen".
(2) image from The Sartorialist

He calls it Sentimental Vulgarity

"Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower, and the incarnation was complete."

The Great Gatsby
via Marshall McLuhan's media critique Woman In A Mirror

(image) I Know What You Wore Last Season

I'm Ready for My Close Up

"Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter." Edgar Allen Poe

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* I think Poe's Tell-Tale Heart is a very real horror story about being haunted by a heart. That interpretation just occurred to me the other day. I like alternate metaphors within metaphors.

(image from: sf girl by the bay)

Song & Snapshot : Your Body is a Wonderland

"Something about the way the hair falls in your face.

I love the shape you take when you crawl across the pillow case..."

john mayer


(image f: Le Love)

Familiar? : Audrey Hepburn & Candice Stringham

Audrey Hepburn and  Rockstar Diaries by Candice Stringham

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* how is it only Wednesday? this has been the week from hell, and i would have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge if i hadn't had my sister here with me. Do you ever have those weeks where you can't seem to do anything right? After a little Perspective i have realized: its okay. i can try again next week.

My Best Friend, SJP

The March 2009 Cover of Harper's Bazaar features my very favorite, Sarah Jessica Parker.

I once passed on an opportunity I had to meet Ms. Parker on her perfume promotional tour. I knew that I wouldn't understand when she didn't know who I was. I truly feel like I know her. We call that a 'parasympathetic relationship' in the communications studies world. I've got the sickness bad.

[The Brooklyn Bridge in cornflower blues and gray by Peter Lindberg 
(p.s. more Peter Lindberg here) ]

Flavia Weedn | On Beginning Again

"if one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again." 

Flavia Weedn

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*this is what i've been doing with my heart lately!
sweeping up the pieces. 

[image f: Toast via Peonies & Polaroids]

Familiar? : Peter Lindbergh & Gemma Booth

A photo from Gemma Booth [via A Little Sussy] and the photo that's said to have started narrative fashion photography, from Peter Lindbergh [via The Olson Influence]

I have been looking for the Lindberg photo in poster form forever, i just adore it. I can't find it anywhere!

Song & Snapshot : San Francisco & Brett Dennen

"I'm going to rent an old victorian down in the Lower Haight
play for the tourists on the Golden Gate
Go if you want to go, but I won't follow
Just so you know
I wont be here when you come home"

 Brett Dennen

[image f: SF Girl By the Bay]

Paulo Coehlo | The Power of Love (and Hot Water)

"Live from your heart and you will be absolutely effective."

Yogi Tea tag

"Love. We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. We do not realize that love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who geuniely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey."

The Alchemist

Song & Snapshot : Electric Feel

"You still look at me with well acquainted eyes, as the memories come flooding back in a field of butterflies. It's electric. I can't forget it."

Tristan Prettyman, Electric

"You can feel it in your mind, you can do it all the time. Plug it in. Change the world. You are my Electric Girl."

MGMT, Electric Feel

# 41

truly # 41 on the life list
[image f: the sartorialist]