What is your motto?
“Reality is something you rise above.”
I need to post this quote from Liza Minnelli in my laundry room – a place where I am every day! Minnelli shared her words of wisdom in Vanity Fair November issue. It’s true – you have a choice about how you view situations. Sure is easier to cultivate that rosy attitude after a good night’s sleep.
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Tis the season to rush to buy presents, get ready for company, plan big meals, attend parties – and be merry? Hoping to find some slower times decorating cookies with my kids, sitting with a good book looking at the snow fall, and toasting togetherness with family. May you find the slow lane this season…
“A hairy forearm mashed my face.”
Elizabeth Sims, first sentence from a novel titled “On Location”
I haven’t read it but am mesmerized… worried… enticed.. by the first line. Sims is a Mensa member.. so perhaps we should check her out…
“It takes moral courage to uphold a positive culture.” Jim Thompson
With war, dirty politics and poverty topping our headlines, it takes a boatload of moral courage to remain positive. There is always something in my day I can be thankful for – not so hopeful about our “culture” though…
“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark places where it leads.”
Erica Jong
This is a good way to talk back to your inner critic.
“You’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting.
So… get on your way!”
Dr. Seuss
We’re trying to make the most of summer before school begins – one last play date, swim, camping trip, mountain hike… or just lolling on the deck furniture.
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
Emily Dickinson
A wonderful sentence for anyone of a “certain” age who is having a birthday… It reminds me (only in concept, not in subject) of Martin Amis’ Time’s Arrow with its story in reverse chronology. It’s all in your vantage point.
“Windows augment and sear into our memory the beauties of the vistas beyond them…”
So said Klara Glowczewska, Editor in Chief, Conde Nast Traveler.
So as you take vacations and hope for a room with a view, Glowczewska thinks it matters so much to our travel enjoyment, she has compiled a new book titled Room With A View. I don’t want to spend much time in my hotel room on travels – let’s go and do! Yet seeing the views in this book, perhaps sitting, gazing and searing would be wonderful too.
That’s one participant in the “Six Easy Pieces, 31 Challenging Days” experiment chronicled in the New York Times. These women and men decided it was too time-consuming, too consumerist, too whatever to buy and keep closets full of clothes, so they chose six pieces to wear for one month (besides accessories, shoes and undies).
I thought the most telling outcome was that nobody noticed. Yes, in our image-conscious society nobody at work, no friends said, “Hey why are you wearing the same thing over and over?”
How liberating! And yet in an odd reverse way…. maybe that’s more fashionable anyway. One participant began quoting Coco Chanel who said “I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.”
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