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Although I grew up spending weekends on our family farms shucking corn and talking to Bessie the Cow (all the cows had the same name, it was easier that way), I am a big-city girl at heart. I long to be in a city with a coffee shop right around the corner and pavement under my feet. And for most people, myself included, city living is synonymous with small-space living. Even though I’m currently living in Suburbia, I’m looking forward to our next home that will hopefully be in a more metropolitan location.
Thursday, March 22, 2012 I can’t believe Spring is here so quickly. Cool evenings and warm afternoons, my assistant Maggie says it’s her favorite time of the year because she can wear everything in her wardrobe all at once. Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Transitional dressing….Summer shoes and Winter coat.
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— Michel de Montaigne , one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance , known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as “Attempts”) contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers the world over, including René Descartes , Blaise Pascal , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Friedrich Nietzsche , Stefan Zweig , Eric Hoffer , Isaac Asimov , and on the later works of William Shakespeare .
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Dr. (Doc) Martens has been making the industry’s best shitkickers since we were rebellious kids in high-school. There’s just something iconic about a tall pair of black lace-up boots with an off color sole that makes us want to get drunk, smoke pot and start a riot feel a weird nostalgic connection to the past. We probably couldn’t pull them off in public anymore, but we still like the design. Enter the Boot Drive.Postcards To My Peeps - a set on Flickr
Hand-drawn postcards sent to friends, fam, and folks I admire. I would looove to include fun photos of the recipients (or their pets ) with their postcards, so please send 'em my way and I'll put them on the page!
The Fox Is Black
I think what’s particularly delightful about this small, boxy Police Station designed by Klein Dytham is that it turns the ubiquitous parapet into a kind of urban-scaled optic toy. The tall, white wall around the roof of the project is punctuated with cutouts that let folks walking or driving by the station see the shifting spectrum of colors painted behind the perforated wall. The project is appropriately extroverted (who really wants to spend too much time inside a police station?) and is as clever as any of Klein Dytham’s best projects.“A long piece of rope represents a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also creates the sound by cutting through the air.”
but does it float
Born To Be Nervous
streetwise is a story of despicable teenagers whose bafflingly advanced instincts for slang and shitty fashion and mostly for survival make me feel like the worst, even though honestly these kids suck so bad and break your heart and gross it out awful before they really get in. not their fault, who knows who cares too late. they are sure something to watch anyway.
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Flannel, a fabric noted for its cozy, breathable, furry texture, is among the first things with which we all fall in love. As comforting as a mother’s heartbeat, a flannel blanket was likely one of the first cloths with which we came into contact upon being born. More » Following photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Babe Ruth, my face — and more importantly my Norwegian sweater — show up in the video L.L.
Below is a portion of Wallace Stegner’s Wilderness Letter , written to the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission in 1960. The letter was used to introduce the bill that established the National WildernessPreservation System in 1964. Dear Mr. Pesonen: I believe that you are working on the wilderness portion of the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission’s report. If I may, I should like to urge some arguments for wilderness preservation that involve recreation, as it is ordinarily conceived, hardly at all.