such a beautiful wedding celebration
lots of love, and dance, and music, and friends. and food, and flowers
and a bride i’ve known
since she walked into my school in kindergarten.
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“growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be,
and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in ‘The Sound of Music.”
-ellie kemper
(not us, but somewhat similar if your glasses are off)
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this is a day late
and a million or so dollars short
but we all came together
at exactly the right time.
—
“here’s to good women. may we know them. may we be them. may we raise them.”
love, yourmom
so exciting to have found a new approach to dating and romance
i feel pretty sure this method will be the winner!
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Notes: TYROMANCY: The use of cheese as a divination tool was known in the ancient world and the Middle Ages, although the details aren’t very well-recorded. Some say the shapes of the holes in the cheeses were thought to hold meaning—a heart shape could indicate love, and certain holes could be read as initials. Women in the countryside would predict future husbands by writing the names of suitors on pieces of cheese. The first to mold was believed to be the ideal mate. It may be worth noting, however, that the Greek diviner Artemidorus did not feel that cheese divination was very reliable, and included cheese diviners among his list of “false diviners,” alongside dice diviners, sieve-diviners, and necromancers. (The interpretation of dreams and livers was far more dependable, he felt.)
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“i pondered what else I should take for him. flowers seemed wrong; they’re a love token, after all.
I looked in the fridge, and popped a packet of cheese slices into the bag. all men like cheese.”
-gail honeyman, eleanor oliphant is completely fine
“they invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.”
-bil keane
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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image credit: google images
take a moment out of your day to be moved by this very short film
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credits: aleteia, barr pictures, open hands open hearts
when you just can’t make it out to the store to get a card
you use what you have.
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“always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.”
-tony oiler
happy mother’s day
to my daughters
who have shared in
my seemingly endless graduations
and all of
our many, many other adventures and misadventures,
i am grateful to you and love you for this
you’ve made me happy
watching you all grow
from amazing daughters into amazing mothers
you are my idols.
“i don’t have to be perfect.
all is have to do is show up and enjoy
the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of my life.”
-kerry washington
“i believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.
to not be like your parents.
to not be like your friends.
to be yourself.
to cut yourself out of stone.’
-henry rollins
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credits: Chad Knight digital sculpture, right brained, wild child
Beneath The Sweater And The Skin
How many years of beauty do I have left?
she asks me.
How many more do you want?
Here. Here is 34. Here is 50.
When you are 80 years old
and your beauty rises in ways
your cells cannot even imagine now
and your wild bones grow luminous and ripe,
having carried the weight
of a passionate life.
When your hair is aflame
with winter
and you have decades of
learning and leaving and loving
sewn into
the corners of your eyes
and your children come home
to find their own history
in your face.
When you know what it feels like to fail
ferociously
and have gained the
capacity
to rise and rise and rise again.
When you can make your tea
on a quiet and ridiculously lonely afternoon
and still have a song in your heart
Queen owl wings beating
beneath the cotton of your sweater.
Because your beauty began there
beneath the sweater and the skin,
remember?
This is when I will take you
into my arms and coo
YOU BRAVE AND GLORIOUS THING
you’ve come so far..
I see you.
Your beauty is breathtaking.
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Credits: Author: Jeannette Encinias, Studio Yuki Photography, Thank you Russ Thomas
I didn't have my glasses on.... 