Saturday, May 1, 2021

Elegance is not being noticed, it's about being remembered. ...














 

Something to think about - “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

   

 “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz



“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” – 
Henry David Thoreau

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi



“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda


“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda



“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy


“No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.” – Naval Ravikant


“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

Friday, April 30, 2021

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.

 








Edith Piaf - Non, Je ne regrette rien

Today's Story - The Essence Of Being Human, Ubuntu!


 An anthropologist studying the habits and customs of an African tribe found himself surrounded by children most days.

So he decided to play a little game with them.

He managed to get candy from the nearest town and put it all in a decorated basket at the foot of a tree.

Then he called the children and suggested they play the game.

When the anthropologist said “now”, the children had to run to the tree and the first one to get there could have all the candy to him/herself.

So the children all lined up waiting for the signal.

When the anthropologist said “now”, all of the children took each other by the hand ran together towards the tree.

They all arrived at the same time divided up the candy, sat down and began to happily munch away.

The anthropologist went over to them and asked why they had all run together when any one of them could have had the candy all to themselves.

The children responded:

“Ubuntu. How could any one of us be happy if all the others were sad?”

Ubuntu is a philosophy of African tribes that can be summed up as “I am what I am because of who we all are.”

Bishop Desmond Tutu gave this explanation in 2008 :

“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human.

Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation.

It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can’t be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality –

Ubuntu – you are known for your generosity.

We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another,

whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World.

When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”

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Beautiful Shoes - “I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.” — Bette Midler

 


Roger Vivier - Christian Dior


Marie Antoinette


Manolo Blahnick


Marie Antoinette


Manolo Blahnick


Marie Antoinette


Manolo Blahnick


Marie Antoinette


Manolo Blahnick


Tory Burch Clara - Floral Do'rsay 2017


Clema - Shaftesburg Shoes 1950's


Herbert Levine 1960


Manolo Blahnick 2013



Manolo Blahnick 2014


Versace Barocco

Madeleine Vionnet French fashion designer.

 Madeleine Vionnet June 22, 1876,  France – March 2, 1975) was a French fashion designer. Vionnet trained in London before returning to France  to establish her first fashion house in Paris in 1912. Although it was forced to close in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War, it re-opened after the war and Vionnet became one of the leading designers in Paris between the Wars (1919 - 1939). Vionnet was forced to close her house in 1939 and retired in 1940.

Called the "Queen of the bias cut" and "the architect among dressmakers", Vionnet is best known today for her elegant  Grecian-style dresses and for popularising the bias cut within the fashion world and is credited with inspiring a number of recent designers.










Madeleine Vionnet (French 1876 - 1975)
Spring/Summer 1937








THE SERENITY PRAYER

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE;
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN;
AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME;
ENJOYING ONE MOMENT AT A TIME;
ACCEPTING HARDSHIPS AS THE PATHWAY TO PEACE;
TAKING, AS HE DID, THIS SINFUL WORLD
AS IT IS, NOT AS I WOULD HAVE IT;
TRUSTING THAT HE WILL MAKE ALL THINGS RIGHT
IF I SURRENDER TO HIS WILL;
THAT I MAY BE REASONABLY HAPPY IN THIS LIFE
AND SUPREMELY HAPPY WITH HIM
FOREVER IN THE NEXT.
AMEN.

--REINHOLD NIEBUHR