Mini Break

Love this essay, An Inconvenient Life, from Ingrid Williams about living and running in Italy.

Beauty

I don't know if you can read the message on this very cool piece by Kal Barteski, but it says,
"It was the ugly bits and wobbly parts,
the flabbiness and broken heart,
that kept her from being,
seeing
her beauty
so much beauty."

Friday Inspiration: Life Is A Verb

An artist friend of mine, brilliant digital artist Donna B. Miller, created this beautiful book cover, so I had to check it out. I am eager to order
Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally.

The book's author is a blog-star (holla!) and her readers are so excited to have a book to hold in their hands. Very cool!

Add that it's published by none other than Skirt! and I'm sold.

To The Lighthouse

photo by Erik Jacobs for the New York Times

Did you see this article this morning in the NYTimes about this amazing house?

My favorite is the slideshow interactive. Gorgeous work by the photographer! Each image is like a painting. Extraordinary.

In Her Shoes

a new post for Skirt!

Avenue Montaigne

I stumbled upon the movie Avenue Montaigne last weekend on the Sundance Channel and it was really lovely. Here's a link to the apple trailer, but honestly, I think it's better to go in fresh. It's perfect for your Netflix cue.

Without spoiling anything, I can tell you that there's one scene where a famous pianist plays for patients in a hospital and in that moment, feels more connected to his music than he has in years. It was a scene that I wish I would have paused and watched again.

It's a moment a lot of us can relate to: when you stop and realize why you began down a certain path, what drew you to where you are, and how you never could have anticipated that your passion would lead you to where you are standing right now. The actor does this beautiful job of expressing, without words really, that this is exactly what he loves about music and life and how distant those things have become from his work life. I felt like I was sitting beside him at the piano and I felt a little light come in.

I love it when art can do that.

C'est si bon.

PS: StatCounter tells me that many of you out there reading are from French-speaking areas of Canada. Salut mes amis! Thank you for reading!

Dorktown Revisited

Just discovered that Organize.com has a special tab called She that lists items for sale based on areas of interest for the following categories:
The Career Girl
The Hostess
The Traveler
She is Creative
and so on.
I must be Every Woman like Chaka Khan, because I identified with every category and found stuff I loved in each. Enjoy.