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monday inspiration: parisian spring

Posted on April 30, 2012 | Leave a comment

“…God knows, when spring comes to Paris the humbles mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise…” – Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

Thanks to my best friend for sharing his photos from a trip to Paris last spring!

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Posted on January 16, 2012 | Leave a comment

One accidental achievement is based on uncountable travels from which the artist gains nourishment. – Fu Baoshi

I recently enjoyed the Cleveland Museum of Art’s exhibition Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965). The stunning retrospective offered artistic insight into a dynamic and tumultuous time of change.

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Posted on October 30, 2011 | Leave a comment

Chicago is an October sort of city even in the spring. – Nelson Algren

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Posted on October 10, 2011 | Leave a comment

I like it in the city when the air is so thick and opaque. I love it to see everybody in short skirts shorts and shades. I like it in the city when two worlds collide.
- Adele

Enjoy basking in the last eruption of summer weather and take note of your sunny day favorites. You’ll need them to keep warm during the nation’s worst winter.

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Posted on April 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! – Mark Twain

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Posted on February 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

i am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. – seneca

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Posted on January 31, 2011 | Leave a comment

after all it was a great big world, with lots of places to run to. - tom petty

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Posted on January 17, 2011 | 2 Comments

a city [to Raggles] was not merely a pile of bricks and mortar, peopled by a certain number of inhabitants; it was a thing with soul characteristic and distinct; an individual conglomeration of life, with its own peculiar essence, flavor, and feeling. – o. henry, “the making of a new yorker”

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