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Memory overload…

16 Thursday Aug 2012

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

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Art, Collage, memory, Poetry, Relationships, Tennyson, The Idylls of the King

Lauren in Vancouver at ferry docks

Lauren DiMarco in Vancouver © Joan Currie

Her memory from old habit of the mind
Went slipping back upon the golden days
In which she saw him first,…
from The Idylls of the King – Guinevere by Tennyson

I remember first seeing him standing in the doorway of the dockside restaurant.

Sweetest rose…

06 Monday Aug 2012

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

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beautiful, Photography, Pink rose, Poetry, Walter de la Mare, When the rose is faded

Rose in garden Joan Currie

© Joan Currie

When the rose is faded,
Memory may still dwell on
Her beauty shadowed, 
And the sweet smell gone.
from When the Rose is Faded by Walter de la Mare

Tears came to my eyes when I found a keepsake box containing a pink sweetheart rose from my first prom corsage. It is lovely still!

Being a contender…

30 Monday Jul 2012

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

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

© Khrystyana Kazakova

…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.

Fortifying my heart…

17 Tuesday Jul 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, Khrystyna Kazakova, Love, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, Photography, Poetry, Relationships, William Wordsworth

© Khrystyna Kazakova

What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind…
from Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth

Still searching for strength in the ruins of what was a beautiful life – rest in peace.

Among the hydrangeas…

11 Wednesday Jul 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Garden, Photography, Writing

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Again and Again - However We Know the Landscape of Love, Garden, Hydrangea, Photography, Poetry, Rilke

© Joan Currie

Again and again, however we know the landscape of love
and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,
and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others
fall: again and again the two of us walk out together
under the ancient tree, lie down again and again
among the flowers, face to face with the sky.
from Again And Again, However We Know The Landscape Of Love by Rilke

 Glorious palette of colors, glorious day of love…

Dear and loving husband…

07 Saturday Jul 2012

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Anne Bradstreet, Photography, Poetry, To my Dear and Loving Husband, Writing

© Carole Morey

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay,
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere
That when we live no more, we may live ever.
from To My Dear And Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet

You are adored still and forevermore….

212 degrees Fahrenheit…

04 Wednesday Jul 2012

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America's Top Model, Charles Swinburne, Fashion, Khrystyna Kazakova, Photography, Poetry

© Khrystyna Kazakova

And her lips opened amorously, and said-
I wist not what, saving one word – Delight.
And all her face was honey to my mouth,
And all her body pasture to mine eyes;
from Love and Sleep by Charles Swinburne

Turning up the heat on this 4th of July…

Mulligans…

21 Thursday Jun 2012

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America's Top Model, Khrystyna Kazakova, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Resolutions, Summer Solstice, The Scholar Gipsy

© Khrystyna Kazakova

For whom each year we see
Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new;

Who hesitate and falter life away,
And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day-
from The Scholar Gipsy by Matthew Arnold 

Summer Solstice – a time to begin anew with the New Year’s resolutions that have fallen short.

Loving again and again…

01 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Design, Food, Photography, Reflections, Relationships, Writing

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, If Thou Must Love Me, Love, Photography, Poetry, romance, Tea time

© Joan Currie

If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love’s sake only. Do not say,
‘I love her for her smile – her look – her way
Of speaking gently, – for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’ –
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee – and love,
so wrought.
from If Though Must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

 Surely after all these years our love is transcendent.

Love’s arrival…

31 Thursday May 2012

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

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If Love Should Come, Love, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Photography, Poetry, Writing

Woman contemplating National Gallery

National Gallery, London

If love should come,
Against him would I dare to bar the door,
And, unregretful, bid him come no more?
from the poem If Love Should Come by Lucy Maud Montgomery 

Love is welcome at my door.

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