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Ten Beautiful Things I Like About a North Man…

22 Friday Jan 2021

Posted by Satin & Sand in Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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beautiful, Ice, Ice fishing, North, Snow, W.H. Auden, Winter



North – cold, wind, precipices, glaciers, caves, heroic conquest of dangerous obstacles,
whales, hot meat, and vegetables, concentration and production, privacy. – W. H. Auden

  1. The way he uses an auger to makes holes for ice fishing before laying in the gill net.
  2. The way he pulls the polar shell over his leather mittens.
  3. The way he lays logs for a fire in the granite fireplace that he built himself.
  4. The way he knows what the temperature is without checking the thermometer.
  5. The way the snow and frost settle on his eyebrows.
  6. The way he climbs onto the roof to sweep off the snow.
  7. The way he snaps icicles off the eavestrough before they shatter onto the ground.
  8. The way he puts chains on his truck and that they always fit.
  9. The way he folds his trapper blanket at the end of the bed.
  10. The way he knows all the constellations in the winter sky – Orion being our favorite.

Photograph © David Dodds

Returning to a New Normal…

17 Sunday Jan 2021

Posted by Satin & Sand in Design, Photography, Reflections

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coffee shop, Dublin, Normal, Normalcy, Routine

© Joan Currie

In the rush to return to normal, use this time to consider which
parts of normal are worth rushing back to. – Dave Hollis

Although I don’t like to think of myself as bound to a daily routine, it is this routine that gives me
perspective, stability, and structure, and makes stepping out of it all the more wonderful and exciting!

A Romance Journal for 2021…

14 Thursday Jan 2021

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Beauty, Journal, Love, romance


Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are. by Carolyn V. Hamilton

For my eyes only, I will capture every delicious detail of this wonderful New Year!

Photograph © Joan Currie

Fill Power…

06 Wednesday Jan 2021

Posted by Satin & Sand in America's Next Top Model, Fashion, Photography, Reflections

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America's Top Model, Down, Fill power, Khrystyana Kazakova, Positivity


Fill power is a measure of the loft or “fluffiness” of a down product that is loosely related to the insulating value of the down. The higher the fill power, the more air a certain weight of the down can trap, and thus the more insulating ability the down will have. Fill power ranges from about 300 (in³/oz) for feathers to around 900 (in³/oz) for the highest quality goose down. from Wikipedia

I received a wonderful, dare I say sensual, down comforter for Christmas this year. It has a 950 fill power and weighs less than two pounds. It is meant for fall and spring camping but since my house is quite cold at night, I couldn’t resist using it for sleeping in my bed as well.

Unlike my old comforter that was heavy, rough and prickly from duck feather barbs protruding through the cotton covering, this quilt is light, soft and smooth. I love being enveloped by the luxury of its airiness and warmth.

I began to compare this feeling of the new comforter to being around certain types of people: Some individuals are light, optimistic and well, happy – I might want to hug them, to envelop myself in their positivity, to be in their orb, while others are dark, pessimistic and irritable – like the prickly duck feathers, I want to give them distance. In the New Year, I seek to spend my time with the lighter and more positive fowls.

Photograph: © Samantha Wolov

Finding time…

20 Sunday Dec 2020

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Crafts, Design, Photography, Reflections

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Art, Creativity, Georgia O'Keeffe, Photography, Reflections

© James Currie

To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage. – Georgia O’Keeffe

Grateful for a day dedicated to my creative pursuits…

A snapshot of the day….

07 Wednesday Oct 2020

Posted by Satin & Sand in Design, Fashion, Photography, Reflections, Writing

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Happiness, Jane Kenyon, Photography, Poetry

© James Currie

There’s just no accounting for happiness
or the way it turns up like a prodigal
who comes back to the dust at your feet
having squandered a fortune far away.
from Happiness by Jane Kenyon

It was a day of happiness and it was wonderful!

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Eye_ology

30 Saturday May 2020

Behind the Mask by Joan Currie

Behind the mask @Joan Currie

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Thanks to all our healthcare workers – true heroes!

Posted by Satin & Sand | Filed under Art, Coronavirus pandemic, Isolation, Photography, Reflections

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No worries …

31 Tuesday Mar 2015

Posted by Satin & Sand in Aging, Photography, Reflections, Writing

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carefree, J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan, Youth

Lauren Dimarco in Ireland2

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way
Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a 
garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she 
must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and 
cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ That was all that passed between
them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always
know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

J. M. Barrie from Peter Pan

I wish I could remember what it felt like to be carefree…

Lauren DiMarco in Ireland.

Another spring…

20 Friday Mar 2015

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Bird nest, Christina Rossetti, Nest, Poetry, Spring, Victorian poetry

Spring Nest by Joan Currie

Spring Nest © Joan Currie

Another Spring
If I might see another Spring,
I’d not plant summer flowers and wait:
I’d have my crocuses at once,
My leafless pink mezereons,
My chill-veined snow-drops, choicer yet
My white or azure violet,
Leaf-nested primrose; anything
To blow at once, not late.

If I might see another Spring
I’d listen to the daylight birds
That build their nests and pair and sing,
Nor wait for mateless nightingale;
I’d listen to the lusty herds,
The ewes with lambs as white as snow,
I’d find out music in the hail
And all the winds that blow.

If I might see another Spring –
Oh stinging comment on my past
That all my past results in “if” –
If I might see another Spring,
I’d laugh to-day, to-day is brief;
I would not wait for anything:
I’d use to-day that cannot last,
Be glad to-day and sing.

By Christina Rossetti

Savoring the signs of spring…

Designing a New Year …

01 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by Satin & Sand in Design, Photography, Reflections

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Danielle LaPorte, Jonathan Fields, Lauren DiMarco, New beginnings, New Year's Resolutions, Photography

Lauren DiMarco - Happy New Year's

Design is love. Good design is love – it’s well-thought. Good design considers everybody. It considers your emotions, it considers the ecology. There’s beauty in it. Good design – there’s always some kind of elegance to it.
by Danielle LaPorte in an interview with Jonathan Fields

Designing a big, beauteous, beguiling, and bodacious New Year!

Model: Lauren DiMarco

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