Jumping….

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Art, Design, Mixed media art, Ray Bradbury, Reflections

Lauren di Marco in Ireland – @ Joan Currie

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair.
We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical.
Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your own wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury.

Loving where I’ve landed right now…

Flying higher…

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Dreams, Flight, Flying high, Jesse Jackson, Photography, Reflections

© Joan Currie

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. – Jesse Jackson

Ready to try flying to higher altitudes…

Finding time…

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Art, Creativity, Georgia O'Keeffe, Photography, Reflections

© Joan Currie

To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage. – Georgia O’Keeffe

Grateful for a day dedicated to my creative pursuits…

Exploring new territory…

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Art, Collage, Exploring new territory, Florence + the Machine, Reflections, Spectrum, Upcycled materials

© Joan Currie – Collage

When we first came here
We were cold and we were clear
With no colors in our skin
We were light and paper thin…
lyrics from Spectrum by Florence + the Machine

Taking less tentative steps forward…

Failure to thrive…

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fashion, Love, Love Is Not All, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Relationships, Writing

© Lauren DiMarco

Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
from Love Is Not All by Edna St. Vincent Millay 

Hold me, kiss me, love me…

Open to Interpretation…

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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

Train Yard…

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beautiful, Big Trees & Pacific, Caboose, Locomotive, Memoir, Photography, postaweek2011, Reflections, Train, Train Yard

© Joan Currie

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. – Orison Swett Mardone

I love to travel by train! My favorite train ride was during the summer after grade ten when I traveled with my best girlfriend from Calgary to Vancouver through the Canadian Rockies. We both fell hopelessly in love with a handsome university student who boarded the train in Revelstoke and spent more time looking at him than the glorious scenery all around us.

© Joan Currie

© Joan Currie

© Joan Currie

Thanksgiving Day…

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Holiday, Memoir, Photography, Reflections, Thanksgiving, W. J. Cameron, Writing

© Joan Currie

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.

W.J. Cameron

At dawn on Thanksgiving I set out on a road trip to pick up my eldest daughter so that she could join us for our family dinner. Although I was not particularly enthusiastic about doing the six hour drive, as I wanted to stay home to prepare food for our big dinner, I decided to make the best of it.

As it turned out, there was hardly any traffic, the scenery in the morning light was breathtaking, and I was captivated by a CD that I had wanted to hear for some time. The return drive gave my daughter and me a rare opportunity for uninterrupted dialog about her life plans and sharing humorous travel tales. To top it off, when we arrived home, her sisters had prepared the entire feast by themselves and all we had to do was sit down and enjoy it. All in all, despite my initial apprehensions, it turned out to be one of my very best Thanksgivings!

October…

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beautiful, Beauty, Fashion, Nova Bair, October, Photography, Reflections, Vanessa

© Vanessa

October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.
Nova Bair

I realized today that we are quickly nearing the end of the year and my 2010 list of resolutions is only partially completed. At first I filled with remorse that I did not have the discipline and drive to finish all my action items in a timely fashion. But as I began to reflect on all the wonderful things that I have accomplished this year, I felt much better. Surely I can attend to one more project in the remaining ten weeks before year-end!