My Last Days: Meet Zach Sobiech
Zach Sobiech knew more at 17 than most of us will ever know about making the most of life. His motto, "just make other people happy." He died of osteo sarcoma May 20, 2013. This video is a worthwhile 20 minutes.
(quiet) statement jewelry
Big and colorful statement jewelry. You wear it because you want to be trendy, fashionable. You want to stand out.
It's still hot but I'm bored with it. I've seen enough over-the-top plastic, epoxy, big and bauble-y necklaces and bracelets. They are rarely made well so that they can sell inexpensively. You can just look at them and smell the cheap.
I'm not saying all eye-catching pieces should go away. But it is time to make a new, bold, individual statement. A little drama can be fabulous. Well-made standout pieces made with taste and craft are timeless and fun. I'm saying choose wisely, tastefully, with individuality.
As for the plastic and epoxy chunky colorful things, sorry, I've seen you too many times by now. You are passe. You have been far too blatantly obvious for too long already and are no longer new or interesting. You are like bell bottoms or neon dresses or big hair... it's fun for a while but you just can't take too much of it.
A better accessory statement to make is unique, interesting, worth a second look. Worth a long stare even. Your style accented perfectly yet not too overtly is always the best statement. And, remember to focus. Make your focal point a standout earrings OR necklace OR clutch OR bracelet. Not all at once.
Think of the art of flirting. A quiet meeting of the eyes can be much more intriguing than an overt "Hey baby, damn you look fine!".
Make your statement, leave your mark, stand out in a crowd, be 100% you, venture into experimental territory. Just do it in a way that's worth a second glance or an envious stare.
Make them wonder how you put together the most amazing and unexpected combination. Play with hard and soft, feminine and masculine, tight and flowy. Wear a feminine sheer black top and pair it with a chunky chain with a big horn. Your pieces should "go", but not necessarily match. An eclectic combination is always better than a perfectly plotted and matched outfit.
Just like your personality shouldn't be too conforming, neither should be your style. Make your statement elegantly, effortlessly, unexpectedly even fiercely.
Just remember, we cover our ears when we hear a scream and yet lean in to hear a whisper.
play with it while you have hands
Because life is painfully short...
Play with it while you have hands
Dust settles, cities turn to sand
Trespassing this is their land
Time flies, make a statement, take a stand
Come along now, come along with me... and you'll see
What it's like to be free
Original Swedish version by Titiyo
catch me... if you can
Most things don't come easy but...the best things in life are worth the wait.
Erich Fromm on life & love
Fromm was a Philosopher and Psychoanalyst who lived 1900-1980. He was well known for his book, "The Art of Loving" in which he maintains that love is a rare achievement and that in order to truly be able to love someone, you must first be able to love and know yourself.
He believed one had to build the capacity of self-love in order to truly be able to love another with humility, courage, faith and discipline. Love is not easy.
He believed that the ability to love was one of the most important things in life. With that, Fromm quotes:
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
time is what we want most
Lost time is never found again.
~Benjamin Frankin
You may delay, but time will not.
~Benjamin Franklin
The time I kill is killing me.
~Mason Cooley
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
~William Penn
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
~John Wooden
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
~Abraham Lincoln
The time is now to get your leather wrap watch, available in four colors.
~Accessory Foundry :)
i am not as strong as you think...
silly is your natural state
Every once in a while, or perhaps often, we all need a little something to make us smile and remember life shouldn't be so serious. Feel free to be silly, laugh freely and adorn yourself with whimsical jewelry that will make you and the world smile.
Wise words from Mike Myers:
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
