We DO.

In honor of my upcoming nuptials, I thought I would share some amazing famous wedding photos; Grace Kelly to Ernest Hemingway to Gwen Stefani's amazing pink ombré wedding dress. It's been getting pretty hectic recently with only 30 something days to go. It's a welcome escape to look into these photos and daydream. We are hoping our wedding day will feel magical and timeless like Ernest Hemingway and Jim Morrison could both be in attendance. To dancing and dreaming and many champagne toast!

Such A Woman.

 I seem to have this ever growing obsession with french actresses. They are just so beautiful in an effortless, whimsical, laissez-faire kinda way. My latest french crush is the pouty, curvacious Emmanuelle Béart. The film that made her famous in France was Manon of the Spring (1986), in which she played the role of a blonde shepherd dancing nude in the fields. Her most famous film is La bell noiseuse (1991) directed by Jacques Rivette and also starring the famous Jane Birkin. 

She is an extremely sensitive perfectionist, she took violin lessons for a year for a role and is very politically active in France, fighting for the rights of immigrants. She is just so deeply enchanting on so many levels. She is such a woman! She really makes me want to embrace my own curvy figure rather than strain to be Moss skinny.

The Wild.

Despite that I have only recently returned from a pretty intense travel extravaganza, I already feel the stirring in me to get out and explore again. I have not been at 100% for a while now and I think I have been spending too much time in doors. I need to get out on the wind, in the water, on the earth. Run and dance and climb and swim and breathe. I really love being out in the wild, surrounded in nothing but nature. It always blows my mind and puts everything in perspective. There is so much out there happening all the time. I want to be everywhere. I want to be there.

 "Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher." - William Wordsworth

 "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein

 "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." - e.e. cummings

 "Forget not  that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." 

- Khalil Gibran

 "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle

 "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." - Frank Lloyd Wright

 "Just living is not enough...one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." 

- Hans Christian Anderson

 "The poetry of the earth is never dead." - John Keats

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Douces Mélodies.

I cannot get enough of Françoise Hardy. I have been listening to her records non-stop lately. She has this gentleness about her that I just love and admire. Even my cats are mesmerized by her voice. I have read that she is very shy and very uncomfortable in the spotlight. I think that shyness is what keeps her from being pretentious or acting like something she's not. I just find myself drawn to her, I identify with her. Plus it really helps with my french skills to try to translate all of her lyrics. She is a gorgeous, unassuming, angelic soul. Je t'aime Françoise!

 

"I was for a very long time passionately in love with her, as I'm sure she's guessed. Every male in the world, and a number of females also were, and we all still are." -David Bowie on Françoise Hardy

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