elephant love medley

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Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:25:04 -0400

{I don’t usually post my writing on this blog, but I will just this once}

Yep. I finally did it. And I didn’t even faint. I’ve officially entered the world of tat status. I went last night with my dear friend Emmie whose story is real and raw and beautiful. The process was not new to her which was helpful in calming my nerves. She remains to be the most humble and deserving person in my life and I am so happy I got to share the experience with her, especially in the significance of what this week has been for her.

“Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations and earth.” Psalm 46:10 was the first verse to ever really have meaning to me. I will never forget the moment the words settled in a spot inside of me, where, in that instance, I simply understood. There is a card that sits in a frame above my bed in my first home that really belongs to me. While I’m leaving the apartment in the Fall, it has been such a significant haven of safety for me in a lot of ways this year. I have faced a handful of demons in my life while aboding in Unit 2 with sweet roommate and loyal constant Courtney Seward. I have a long way to go (as do we all), but I am learning to submit myself, unclench my fists, and look expectantly ahead. Because not everyone can.

The card reads, “There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart”. It is not difficult to observe that I am a person of feeling and emotion, and often times I forget to rest equally in the truth of knowing, as I do in believing. I am excited that these words “be” and “know” will mirror each other on my wrists for the rest of my time on this side of heaven…reminding me of the beauty in the balance of the heart, and that of the simplicity of the head. :)

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Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:18:13 -0400

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Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:17:23 -0400

elizabeth and james fall 2013 ready-to-wear. yup.

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:44:32 -0500

elizabeth and james fall 2013 ready-to-wear. yup.

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Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:46:25 -0500

The Sartorialist as of late.

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:46:10 -0500

The Sartorialist as of late.

Favorites.

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:55:53 -0500

Favorites.

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Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:55:13 -0500

monsieur-j: UK Vogue - February 2013 - Collective Spirit

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:33:21 -0500

monsieur-j:

UK Vogue - February 2013 - Collective Spirit

Sartorialist in Florence. love love love this look of menswear...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:04:02 -0500

Sartorialist in Florence.

love love love this look of menswear for women. die.

lylaandblu: WIWT | Lyla & Blu

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:44:18 -0500

lylaandblu:

WIWT | Lyla & Blu

Cisthene

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:03:15 -0500

Cisthene

Video

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:41:10 -0500

winter bride wore cardigan + dress

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:36:55 -0500

winter bride wore cardigan + dress

Jason Wu Spring 2013

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:33:41 -0500

Jason Wu Spring 2013

"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can..."

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:32:10 -0500

“

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

”

- Rudyard Kipling

"There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love..."

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:27:36 -0500

“There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.”

- John Steinbeck in a letter to his son Thom, November 10, 1958.

Photo

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:02:24 -0400

note to self: photoshoot idea

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:39:21 -0400

note to self: photoshoot idea

marc jacobs spring 2012 rtw

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:38:20 -0400

marc jacobs spring 2012 rtw