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Thoughts of Love…

07 Sunday Feb 2021

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Beauty, Lauren DiMarco, Love, Poetry, Sonnet XXVII

© Lauren DiMarco

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head,
To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired:
For then my thoughts–from far where I abide–
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul’s imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,

Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.
Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee, and for myself, no quiet find.
Sonnet XXVII by William Shakespeare

In that wonderful place between wakefulness and sleep, I think of you.

Model: Lauren DiMarco

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

Ten Beautiful Things I Like About a Scientist…

11 Monday Jan 2021

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Beauty, Natural Philosophy, Reflections, Science, Scientist


Just as the word “science” (scientia) means originally just knowledge and until the eighteenth century covered even theology (which was called the “mother of all sciences”), so natural philosophy (philosophia naturalis), which was also called physica or physiologia, covered the entire domain of the created world, ... Wikipedia

  1. The way he has an “aha!” moment whenever he discovers something, no matter what the rest of the world thinks of it.
  2. The way his hands manipulate things at the bench – his manual dexterity being the most enviable.
  3. The way he insists that the study of science is really the study of natural philosophy – the philosophy of existence.
  4. The way he finds satisfaction in bringing together disparate things and explaining new things to me.
  5. The way he discusses new concepts with his fellow scientists with such passion.
  6. The way he works to make a difference for the good of the world, not motivated by money.
  7. The way he says man cannot negotiate reality: the laws of nature rule in science.
  8. The way he can read labels on consumer packages and understand what is or what is not important.
  9. The way he sees science all around him from baking and cooking in the kitchen to simply looking at tidal pools on a hike.
  10. The way he says, “I don’t know. Let’s find out!” with the same sense of adventure as a small child.
  11. Bonus: The way he looks hot in a pressed white lab coat!

Photograph © David Dodds

Bursting at the seams…

18 Sunday Nov 2012

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Beauty, In Absence, Love, Relationships, watercolor

© Joan Currie – watercolor

Absence extinguishes a minor passion and intensifies a great one – as the wind blows out a candle but fans a fire.
from In Absence by François , Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Trying to wait patiently for your return…

Attention to detail…

19 Friday Oct 2012

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Beauty, David Foster Wallace, Fashion, Photography, Relationships

© Joan Currie

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort,  and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. – from This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Sometimes it seems that all my time is spent picking up the pieces of other people’s lives.

Model: Carole Morey

Holding tight…

17 Wednesday Oct 2012

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Beauty, Fashion, Love, Photography, Relationships

© Joan Currie

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. – Anonymous

Waiting for that great big crazy love to come again…

Model: Carole Morey

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Blink of an eye…

09 Thursday Aug 2012

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America's Top Model, Audrey Hepburn, Beauty, Khrystyna Kazakova, Photography

© Khrystyana Kazakova

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. – Audrey Hepburn

What is it about love that makes it so wondrous, but over time, so impossible to preserve?

Quick-change artist…

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Beauty, Fashion, Haider Ackermann, Lauren DiMarco, Photography

© Lauren DiMarco

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Trying to shed old habits…

Me, myself this time…

22 Tuesday May 2012

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Beauty, Fashion, Labyrinth of Desire, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Relationships, Rosemary Sullivan

© Kevin Osmond Man – detail

Eventually, however, you discover that you have nurtured in another what you should have nurtured in yourself and you are left empty. Even damaged. Bending your will to his, you lose your own passions and dreams.
from Labyrinth of Desire by Rosemary Sullivan

The cost of loving you has proven to be too high.

Model: Lauren DiMarco

On edge…

11 Friday May 2012

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Asymmetrical hemline, Beauty, Design, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Michael Chichi, Paul Valery, Photography, Relationships

© Michael Chichi

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. – Paul Valery

You keep me off-balance. 

Model: Lauren DiMarco

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