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Tag Archives: Postaweek 2012

Ten Beautiful Things I Like About a Man…

05 Monday Mar 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Photography, Reflections, Relationships

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beautiful, Manhood, Men, Photography, Postaweek 2012, Theodore Roosevelt

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shirking the rough work that must always be done. – Theodore Roosevelt

My List:
1. The way his eyes twinkle when he tells a particularly clever joke or play on words.
2. The way he uses his hands to hammer a nail, open a jackknife, hold a paintbrush, start an outboard motor, reel in a fish, change a tire, and shave his face.
3. The way he slalom water skis from a flying dock start, raises a spinnaker, and ties knots.
4. The way he holds a baseball in his glove just before throwing it.
5. The way he can skip stones with practically any shape or size of stone he finds along the beach.
6. The way his legs stick out from under a car when he changes the oil.
7. The way he can take apart any computer, electrical or mechanical device and actually fix it.
8. The way he knows who covered practically every song ever written.
9. The way he plays the harmonica to Howlin’ Wolf songs while driving.
10. The way he falls asleep ten minutes into a movie that he’s been wanting to watch all day.

Photograph: © David Dodds

Open to Interpretation…

04 Sunday Mar 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Fashion, Photography, Reflections

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Ambiguity, Deema Chayka, Fashion, Marina Chayka, Photography, Postaweek 2012, Reflections, Relationships

© Marina Chayka

I am lost in a sea of ambiguity.
from my journal 

I have no idea of what you want from me.

Model: Deema Chayka

Both Sides of One…

24 Friday Feb 2012

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beautiful, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Postaweek 2012

© Lauren DiMarco

If I have to be both the yin and yang of our relationship, I might as well be on my own.
from my journal 

You ask too much of me.

Sweet Roses…

16 Thursday Feb 2012

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Garden, Photography, Reflections

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beautiful, Herbert Trench, Photography, Poetry, Postaweek 2012, Roses, Valentine's Day

© Joan Currie - My Valentine Roses

She comes not when Noon is on the roses —
Too bright is Day.
She comes not to the Soul till it reposes
From work and play.

But when Night is on the hills, and the great Voices
Roll in from Sea,
By starlight and by candlelight and dreamlight
She comes to me.
by Herbert Trench 

The sweet fragrance of last night lingers…

Valentine’s Day…

14 Tuesday Feb 2012

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

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Art, beautiful, John Keats, Love, Photography, Postaweek 2012, Valentine's Day

© Joan Currie

Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other!
How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always,
to talk to and sit with.
Let’s be a comfortable couple.
by Charles Dickens

Nothing is better than snuggling up with a loved one on this day!

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Sunset Over the Bay…

12 Sunday Feb 2012

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beautiful, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Photography, Poetry, Postaweek 2012, Sunset

© Joan Currie - The South San Francisco Bay

Plum-purple was the west; but spikes of light
Spear’d open lustrous gashes, crimson-white;
(Where the eye fix’d, fled the encrimsoning spot,
And, gathering, floated where the gaze was not;)
And through their parting lids there came and went
Keen glimpses of the inner firmament:
by Gerard Manley Hopkins

I basked in the glorious but fleeting sunset.

Remembering Past Loves…

12 Sunday Feb 2012

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beautiful, I Knew A Woman, Lauren DiMarco, Poetry, Postaweek 2012, Theodore Roethke

© Ryan Chua

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
from I Knew a Woman by Theodore Roethke 

Thinking back to my best Valentine’s Day celebrations…

Model: Lauren DiMarco

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Beautiful Respite…

05 Sunday Feb 2012

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beautiful, Carmen Campos, Fashion, Help, Janet Lewis, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Poetry, Postaweek 2012

© Carmen Campos

In the warm, lofted air, 
Soft lips together pressed,
Soft wispy hair,
She stops to rest,
from Girl Help by Janet Lewis 

Savoring little pockets of time throughout the day…

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Thy Beauty…

28 Saturday Jan 2012

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

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beautiful, Edgar Allan Poe, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Pat Ramos, Photography, Postaweek 2012, Ukushu Khrystyna

© Pat Ramos

Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe

I wish I could savor the first blush of young love over and over again.

Model: Ukushu Khrystyna

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Comforts of Home…

25 Wednesday Jan 2012

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

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Anaïs Nin, Art, beautiful, Postaweek 2012, watercolor, WIngback Chair

© Joan Currie – Wingback Chair Watercolor

Fraenkel loved my home, the idea of a house, a home as a pivot, a base, a hub. Henry, the vagabond, was amazed at Fraenkel’s assertion that this was necessary to creation, that rolling and drifting prevented growth, that this was the way to grow and expand. – from the Diary of Anaïs Nin 

The muse visits me when I am curled up reading in my favorite wingback chair.

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