All posts tagged inspiration

Wall Art

There’s a lot that one can bitch about when living in a sprawling urban metropolis – the traffic, the noise, the chaos… But then there are the little, fabulous flashes of beauty that can only be created in a city of spirits vying for attention. Look up. Look down. Look around. What do you see?

Pearls Of Wisdom

Many times in my life, I have navigated situations with the grace of an elephant in a candy store. I have felt the need to prove myself with all the subtlety of a brass band in a library, afraid to be silent or still long enough to learn from others. I have shrunk from the [...]

Blooming Mondays: Never Boring

I never used to be a tulips girl. I thought they were boring. I had these expectations around what constituted an exciting flower, for hell’s sake. Isn’t it funny, the stories we hold in our head about what’s exciting, how things should be, the way the world is supposed to look. I’m discovering that I [...]

Wolf Kahn And Blurred Lines

When I was a kid, my family frequented museums. As a young adult living in Europe, I never thought twice about attending the latest basement-gallery artist opening. Lately, however, I’m more likely to fall in love with an artist by stumbling on an iPhone skin or mini calendar of their work. I discovered Wolf Kahn [...]

Control

Control can kill you. If I ever doubted that, the last few days have made me a true believer. I come from a line of women who like being in control. Actually, they insist upon it. They have been mislabeled as rigid and bitchy or, by the more diplomatic among us, uncompromising and strong. The [...]