Shining light…

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Hope, Lauren DiMarco, Management by Objectives, New Year, Peter Drucker, Points of light, Precious moments, Sienna Benton

The best way to predict the future, is to create it. by Peter Drucker

This is the time of year that I start formulating my action list for the coming year. (Think a less intense, Management by Objectives by Peter Drucker.) And although it has been a bleak year by any standard, there have been many, many bright spots of happiness and sheer joy – made all the more intense against the pallor of the rest of the year. So it will be these precious moments that I will make an effort to capture in my list for 2021. Regardless of how the new year may be – these points of light are things that I can control.

Model: Lauren DiMarco
Photo: © Sienna Benton

Designing a New Year …

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

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

A lasting fragrance…

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Aging, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Longfellow, Photography, Poetry, Time

Party dress @ Joan Currie

Maiden, that read’st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

from It Is Not Always May by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sometimes it is hard not to lament the passing of time…

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Indomitable…

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Brave, Dennis Rensaissance, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Relationships, Sara Bareilles

© Dennis Renaissance – Model Lauren DiMarco

I wonder what would happen if you
Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave…
lyrics from the song Brave by Sara Bareilles

Sometimes it is hard to be the person you need me to be…

Going with the flow…

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Art, Dance, Lauren DiMarco, Pitbull, Summer dance

© Joan Currie – Figure sketch by Lauren DiMarco & Skirt by Joan Currie

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music,
and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable.
Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.  
Charles Baudelaire

Sometimes you can’t help but dance to the music…

Christmas time-out…

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Bacca da Silva, Christmas, Fashion, Gladys Taber, Lauren DiMarco, Photography

© Bacca da Silva

But in this season it is well to reassert that the hope of mankind rests in Faith. As man thinketh, so he is. Nothing much happens unless you believe in it, and believing there is hope for the world is a way to move toward it. 
Gladys Taber

Taking some time to appreciate all the happy moments from today…

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Nice to talk…

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Fashion, Holidays, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Staying connected

© Lauren DiMarco

In my thinking about happiness, I’ve come to realize that staying connected to people from my past is an important happiness booster… – Bjorn Wallander

Sometimes around the holidays I need to hear my childhood friends’ voices…

Giving thanks…

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Fashion, Henry David Thoreau, Lauren DiMarco, Lydia Hudgens, Photography, Thanksgiving

© Lydia Hudgens

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual…
Henry David Thoreau

Wishing you all the best for a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Top sheeting…

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beautiful, Fashion, Kahill Gibran, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Relationships

© Lauren DiMarco

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you.
Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.
Kahill Gibran

Carefully pulling back the curtain to get a glimpse of your soul…

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Our happiness…

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Art, Design, Intimacy, Lauren DiMarco, Love, Photography, Rumi

© Joan Currie – Mixed media

The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be a thin crescent moon.
You and I unselfed, will be together,
indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.
The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together, you and I.
In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
from A Moment of Happiness by Rumi

I love to linger in our own sweet, sweet world…

Model: Lauren DiMarco