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Resetting the Controls…

26 Tuesday Jan 2021

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America's Top Model, choice, control, Freedom, Khrystyana Kazakova, Viktor Frankl


Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Viktor Frankl

Even in these uncertain times, you can control more than you think.

Model: Khrystyana Kazakova

Fill Power…

06 Wednesday Jan 2021

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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

Possibilities abound…

04 Sunday Nov 2012

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America's Top Model, Hatching, Khrystyana Kazakova, Maria Robinson, Photography

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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

Hatching a more creative life!

Model: Khrystyna Kazakova

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Radiance…

22 Saturday Sep 2012

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America's Top Model, Ellie Goulding, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Lights, Music, Photography

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You show the lights that stop me turn to stone
You shine it when I’m alone
And so I tell myself that I’ll be strong
And dreaming when they’re gone.
lyrics from Lights by Ellie Goulding

I trust my inner light to lead me out of the darkness…

Model: Khrystyana Kazakova

Sucker punch…

26 Sunday Aug 2012

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

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America's Top Model, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Khrystyna Kazakova, Love, Nicholas Sparks, Photography, Relationships, Safe Haven, sucker punch

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She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.
from Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

Is the love that takes your breath away too painful to bear?

Being a contender…

30 Monday Jul 2012

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America's Top Model, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Photography, Poetry

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…that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
from Ulysses by Lord Tennyson

Embrace your inner Olympian.

Past pluperfect…

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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America's Top Model, Arturo Torres, Fashion, Gotye, Khrystyana Kazakova, Love, Photography, Relationships, Somebody That I Used To Know

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Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it’s an ache I still remember.
lyrics from Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye 

We are now just points on each other’s timelines.

Model: Khrystyna Kazakova

Going solo…

15 Tuesday May 2012

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

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America's Top Model, Anneli Rufus, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Party of One, Photography

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The word “alone” should not, for us, ring cold and hollow, but hot.
Pulsing with potentiality.
from Party of One, The Loner’s Manifesto by Anneli Rufus

I love being with you, but also revel in my time alone.

Your heart is with me…

10 Thursday May 2012

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America's Top Model, Beauty, e.e. cummings, Fashion, i carry your heart with me, Khrystyana Kazakova, Love, Photography, Poetry, Writing

© Khrystynana Kazakova

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in 
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
from i carry your heart with me by e. e. cummings 

Some days I need all of you – in the flesh.

Model: Khrystynana Kazakova

Afterthoughts…

08 Tuesday May 2012

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America's Top Model, Beauty, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Pablo Neruda, Photography, Sonnet XVII: I do not love you as if you were brine-rose, Todd Hido

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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
from Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda, translated by Stephen Tapscott 

I wish you would articulate your love for me.

Model: Khrystynana Kazakova

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