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Naturally handsome neutral baskets and jute, canvas or felt sacks. 

Nothing to wear? Launder (nearly) daily. Cast away allegiance to ‘laundry day’ and throw in a load forthright.

🐾🐾🐶 Mucky Puppies 🐶 🐾🐾

Retro rainbows, silver hoops, and agate crystals.

✨WORDS AS WANDS*✨ for MOM & DAD 

🪶Animal Edition🪶

Creature Style your Turns of Phrases for a Supernatural Offspring Following:

• Time to go ! - “Hop it to the Kangaroo.” “Quick like a Bunny.” 🦘🐇🦘🐇🦘🐇🦘🐇
• Wash your hands !  - “Mucky Puppies” - Slippy Fishies, Frozen Penguin etc. - “to the sink.” 🐾
• Settle down ! - “Curl into the cave baby Bear.” (Lap) “Where’s your den little Fox?” (Bed) 🪺
• Speak clearly ! - “Sing to me again, sweet Goldfinch?” 🕊️
• Dress warmly ! - “ABRACADABRA transform these children into their favorite fuzzy Animal.” (Layers on) “What’s your name, little Critter?”🧣🧤

Augment the clever and SILLY; reduce the rude and mundane. SOUND OUT what you mean (‘curl’ invites contracted coziness, ‘Mucky Puppy’ is sticky-icky). SING aloud, but not loud. Edicts are most efficacious delivered in varying spirited and melodious tones🎵. Like GOD’s animal kingdom, our vocal artistry is limitlessly puissant. 

*Borrowed terms : Words as wands, Ciara Burton. Mucky Puppies, Ms. Gussie Gertge Boulder Valley Waldorf School.

Beyond Asana

Tadasana. Next on the list to test - Yoga Rug.

It can be a matter of life and death to stay light on one’s feet. It also feels fantastic to float. But how is levity realized? YOGA. Practicing Yoga encompasses the stretching, weightlifting, meditating, chanting, but also all manner of healthy habits and beyond. 

Natarajasana

Natarajasana (lord of the) Dancer pose. 

Backyard snow pants, softest grey tank, wool baselayer. 

In the market for a MOON-like boot. 🌝 

Nata - dance 

Raja - king 

Rule from the heart to reign this life. Thermal layers are vital for maintaining personal reserves, so there remains ample vigor abound to offer out. Accumulate - SNOWBALL! - your silky, woolly, fuzzy, windproof stash and PILE IT ON (in that order!)!

A WARM♥️ is an OPEN❤️

 

Palm Beach frond

Palm Frond as broom 🧹

Each balmy midmorning outside a prestigious estate in in lavish Palm Beach, I witnessed an unerring monk deep in meditation: a tranquil caretaker sweeping the street with a palm frond. 

Palm fronds symbolize victory, triumph and INTEGRITY. 

ATMOSPHERE

Xmas flowerchild dress, jellyfish onesie (on bébé), ‘tartlet’ (so says my brother) ruby and diamond earrings, pink and green tourmaline ring, bows, bows, bows, and BARE FEET !!

Every holiday has its ambiance - decide on and GUIDE that quality, but when life inevitably throws its curveball - just GO WITH IT. Our Christmas turned out sickly and stormy, but it was also curiously easygoing, exceptionally intimate and required a remarkable combined effort - an ESPRIT DE CORPS !!!

Atmosphere - ‘vapor’ ‘globe’

Back to the Sea

Crystal turtle-neck dress, gold and pearl choker, diamond hoops, suede cowboy boots, leather cherry purse, cremant champagne and Coke for Family party in Denver.

 

The river is flowing,

Flowing and growing

The river is flowing

Back to the sea

Mother Earth carry me

A child I will always be

Mother Earth carry me

Back to the sea

- Sun Bear, Chippewa Tribe

Home from the Sea, musing over what the future will be…

CLOUDY with a chance of PENUMBRA

 

Coniglio viscose rose tie lounge set. Ruby earrings and moonstone necklace. Pink sparkle Arabian slippers and diamanté conejo purse.

A hazy genesis of 2025 in paradisiacal, but overcast, Palm Beach. The pink hotels, patterned store windows and I are nearly cheerless. Yes - the sun shines eternal. But then there’s those deleterious clouds rendering all below dull and dreary. We are beginning the year in the penumbra - the gray area. 

bisous-between-the-sheets 💋🎀

 

Ode to romantic sheets - cotton bows and bouquets - for everyone. Boys, too. 🎀 Hospital corners and big square euro pillows. Plus my (to me unhackneyed) fascination - quilts. 

Like riding a bike

 

While reviewing - and delighting in! - past posts, my only wish is that I had continued through the last decade. I yearn to read my musings during such a high growth phase. And thus is born is the impulsion to take it up anon.

SUMMERIZE!

 

How is it that this word is not in my vocabulary until now?  SUMMERIZE. Today while summArizing (I also 🧡 the brief and succinct,) the Summer plans with hubby, I summErized our dog walk by wearing a bikini top. I summerized the Aspen house by purchasing July 4th paraphernalia and outdoor chairs, summerized multiple bedrooms with lighter quilts (this happens late in Colorado as our temps drop low through Spring), summerized the sitter schedule by adding a playmate on non-camp days, summerized dinner with streamlined outdoor service (enter utensil caddy, trays and South American placemats), summerized my makeup routine by removing it … I am a summarizing machine !!! Both my husband and best-friend happen to separately make me aware of this word on this day. 

Happy Summer and may all your Summerizing be sunny !!

Decent descent

What I wore DEN to CLE and back. (Plus always the shawl).

When traveling - private or public - we cover up ! No matter how svelte our figure and/or supple our skin, the world’s people and the earth’s surfaces need not be privy. Shoulders, midriff, legs, and feet are happier when clothed for the here-to-there. Yes, even in Summer - under wraps ! Cotton comes in all weights. So does cashmere. Jeans run the weather gamut.

Option to wear the camisole as an under layer and reveal upon arrival or pack the light and fluttery cabriolet top in the tote. In summation, know thy jet etiquette ;)

Note : hair = neat.