Drool


Proenza Schouler

Words of Wisdom for us 20 Something's...

1. First up: Stop worrying so much! It's useless. (I.e. Jesus was right.)
2. Being a saint means being yourself. Stop trying to be someone else and just be your best self. Saves you heartache.
3. There's no right way to pray, any more than there's a right way to be a friend. What's "best" is what works best for you.
4. Remember three things and save yourself lots of unneeded heartache: You're not God. This ain't heaven. Don't act like a jerk.
5. Your deepest, most heartfelt desires are God's desires for you. And vice versa. Listen. And follow them.
6. Within you is the idea of your best self. Act as if you were that person and you will become that person, with God's grace.
7. Don't worry too much about the worst that can happen. Even if it happens, God is with you, and you can handle it. Really.
8. You can't force people to approve of you, agree with you, be impressed with you, love you or even like you. Stop trying.
9. When we compare, we are usually imagining someone else's life falsely. So our real-life loses out. I.e. Compare and despair.
10. Even when you finally realized the right thing, or the Christian thing, to do, it can still be hard to do. Do it anyway.
11. Seven things to say frequently: I love you. Thank you. Thank you, God. Forgive me. I'm so happy for you! Why not? Yes.
12. Peace and joy come after asking God to free you -- from anything that keeps you from being loving and compassionate.

An excerpt from Rev. James Martin's article for The Huffington Post,  '12 Things I Wish I Knew at 25: Spiritual Musings On My 50th Birthday" 

Artist Spotlight


Lyndie Dourthe

This is not an Elegy by Catherine Pierce



At sixteen, I was illegal and brilliant,
my fingernails chewed to half-moons.
I took off my clothes in a late March
field. I had secret car wrecks,
secret hysteria. I opened my mouth
to swallow stars.



In backseats
I learned the alchemy of guilt, lust,
and distance. I was unformed and total.
I swore like a sailor. But slowly the cops
stopped coming around. The heat lifted
its palms. The radio lost some teeth.



Now I see the landscape behind me
as through a Claude glass—
tinted deeper, framed just so, bits
of gilt edging the best parts.

I see my unlined face, a thousand
film stars behind the eyes.



I was every murderess, 
every whip-thin alcoholic, 
every heroine with the silver tongue. 


Always young
Paul Newman’s best girl. 

Alwaysa lightning sky behind each kiss.
Some days I watch myself
in the third person, speak to her
in the second.
 



I say:
I will meet you in sleep.
I will know you
by your stillness and your shaking.
By your second-hand gown.
By your bruises left by mouths
since forgotten. 



This is not
an elegy because I cannot bear
for it to be. It is only a tree branch
against the window. 



It is only a cherry tomato 
slowly reddening in the garden.
I will put it in my mouth. It will
be sweet, and you will swallow.



via Poetry 365




For Raechel

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exsists. It is real...it is possible...it's yours."


~Ayn Rand

Valentino Love







Valentino may be a snooty, crusty ol' sob but I would still kill to spend an afternoon in that pretty, shiny, strange fairytale world that he calls a brain.





Take A Seat.




Chalkboard Walls





Blog Spotlight: Design Is Mine...






  Summer of Design Is Mine has really great taste. 
Her blog is a collection of things, people, decor, music, photography, etc. that she's inspired by. 
I like the way she thinks .
 I highly recommend checking out her blog. It's pretty rad.
Plus, I think she's a Portland girl.

Well, I Found My Dream Home...

   Could this house be any more perfect?!
 Heres a link to Design Sponge's article on Di Overton's of Ghost Furniture perfect little cottage home. 
It's so dreamy that my heart sort of skipped a beat when I cam across these photos.
 So I thought I'd share. Sigh.
Drool away...





  
   I'm in love.

Silly Stuff









photos courtesy of The Whoa!

Awesome Street Art: Re-purposed Phone Booth's.



   Imagine a world where these are on every street corner. Dreamboat city.

Blog Spotlight: THXTHXTHX




   This blog is so sweet. It is clever, sincere and funny. Leah Dietrich writes daily thank you notes on all sorts of adorable/weird/funny topics. This blog never fails to make me look at the world around me with a little more sentimentality and humor.
 Check it out