Andrew Wyeth

My mother wrote to me in a book once to never give up on my dreams, never give up on my art.  The book was an Andrew Wyeth art book entitled "The Helga Pictures."

I don't remember at the time what I thought about the book or the art content.  I was too young and immature to appreciate still life or even portraits.  Now, of course when I look at these paintings I am blown away at their beauty, the brush strokes, the strands of hair, the lighting, it is so magical.

This book is such a cherished item of mine.  It is the only art book I ever remember getting from my mom.  In the pages scattered through the book she has written many things to me here & there.  Occasionally, she underlined text in the book.

I don't know how it is possible to be drawn to such a place so strongly over & over.  I could spend the rest of every moment of my life in Maine and never regret it.

The house in Maine, Andrew Wyeth

In 2002

Recently, I was looking at my wedding photos and I realized it had been SO long since I had looked at them.  It really made me happy.



some inspiration-let that petty shit fall to the side

In the month of August

"There is no room in my life for self-deception, judgement, pettiness, manipulation or self-consciousness. I don't worry about how I am perceived, but instead realize my vast potential, and I am making a commitment to myself to do whatever it necessary to achieve my dreams. Loving myself and taking care of my body and health is what it is all about for me."

said by the wonderful Goldie :)

This should be my mantra, as it seems I am surrounded by people that are so insecure about themselves they must make negative comments about others all the time, poke so-called jokes when really they are not jokes at all but since they don't have the balls to insult directly (or completely directly) they disguise their insults as jokes.  Remember to be genuine.

Let's go

somewhere vast and cold
unlike here
somewhere wild and alone

It's True

I have a love affair with shoes.  I find it very interesting how many women share this same obsession.  I've always been like this.  And recently I went shopping, which is rare, but I did.  I got, I think 5 pairs of shoes at once.  I guess the stars aligned that day.  I now have 47 pairs of shoes (I just counted yesterday for the first time ever).  On this recent shopping trip, I bought my first pair of white shoes ever!  I think I am starting to branch out with what I like :)

Comfortable & Practical

Sexy & Sophisticated

 Sookie? My husband says....

Clean & Stylish

And my very favorite of all! I saw these a few weeks before I actually  bought them, and was under the impression they did not have them in my size.  But when I happened to go shopping again, I found them unexpectedly in my size!  The even stranger thing is that ALL my life I have always hated hated hated animal prints, but for some reason I love these!

Sleeping in the Forest

 

I thought the earth remembered me,

she took me back so tenderly,

arranging her dark skirts, her pockets

full of lichens and seeds.

I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,

nothing between me and the white fire of the stars

but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths

among the branches of the perfect trees.

All night I heard the small kingdoms

breathing around me, the insects,

and the birds who do their work in the darkness.

All night I rose and fell, as if in water,

grappling with a luminous doom. By morning

I had vanished at least a dozen times

into something better.

 

~Mary Oliver