02 Saturday Feb 2013
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Lauren DiMarco in Joshua Tree
What matter if I stand alone?
I wait with joy the coming years;
My heart shall reap where it hath sown,
And garner up its fruit of tears.
from the poem Waiting by John Burroughs
Still hopeful that you will stand by my side one day…
18 Sunday Nov 2012
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© Joan Currie – watercolor
Absence extinguishes a minor passion and intensifies a great one – as the wind blows out a candle but fans a fire.
from In Absence by François , Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Trying to wait patiently for your return…
11 Sunday Nov 2012
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© Rachel Valley
She does not yet know that real love does not demand perfection.
from Labyrinth of Desire by Rosemary Sullivan
But she is about to meet the man who will teach her …
Model: Lauren DiMarco
10 Friday Feb 2012
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© Joan Currie – Red Shoes watercolor
Julian?
Yes, my darling?
Take off the red shoes.
from The Red Shoes movie (1948)
My red shoes for tripping the light fantastic on February 14th.
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High Heels
25 Wednesday Jan 2012
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© 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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A New Landscape
08 Sunday Jan 2012
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© Joan Currie - Red Corset Watercolor
You suffer when you try to possess her, because you rob her of the mystery – the very thing that attracted you in the first place! by Henry Miller
She can be as elusive as a cloud…
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Ravishing Red
07 Saturday Jan 2012
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© Joan Currie - Watercolor of High Waist Underskirt
The dearest and tenderest girlhood dreams
I stitch into gossamer hems and seams.
from Song of a Sewing Machine by Constance Woodrow
As a child I was ensorcelled by the beautiful tulle and satin garments in my mother’s trunk.
30 Friday Dec 2011
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I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
from What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St. Vincent Millay
But what a song it was – it mattered not how short!
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On Recognizing Love
20 Tuesday Dec 2011
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© Joan Currie - Watercolor
Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven’s gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. – Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky’s score for the Nutcracker ballet is my favorite music of the holiday along with a dozen classic carols.
14 Wednesday Dec 2011
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© Joan Currie - Watercolor
We are like Russian dolls with our earlier selves within us.
Gloria Steinem
My mother gave this Russian doll to my daughters for Christmas several years ago. It remains one of their favorite gifts.
