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still feeling pretty ill, so more of brasil just around the corner…a few more pictures to tide you over here.
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+ i’ve been meaning to mention escama, a company that supports women from art cooperatives in economically depressed areas of brasilia. good design and fair trade, i love the chica rosa clutch – the thought of each one being hand crocheted out of 200 recycled aluminum tab pulls has me envisioning each tab being collected. wow. the artists’ bios are especially meaningful and inspiring.
this is what the brazilian sun does to you. it unleashes the happy dance. mine isn’t as spastic as the where the hell is matt jig, but it’s the same bust a moves feeling. cha cha cha.
i’m looking at this funny shot and noticing my trusty leather gladiator sandals. those babies have made it everywhere with me since last summer. walking all through tuscany, then back to pounding out the rest of the warm weather on the east coast, and to south america. they’ve held up good. but i ended up cheating on them and i picked up some havaianas while i was in brasil. (when in rome…) golden ones. perfect. (and half the price there too!)
p.s. (re: previous comments) it’s so nice to hear that many of you have had vertigo before. because outside of the hitchcock movie, i didn’t know this existed or what was happening to me. things are feeling a little better, if not just getting accustomed to being on a merry go round and trying to focus on something all day, yikes. so thanks for your well wishes! the spinning is making me a little silly tonight, and i needed a smile.
checking in again…and wow, it feels like i’ve been gone for ages. trips can do that to me, what about you?
even just a day in a foreign place can change everything. so the many days add up! it feels like there should be handfuls of calendar pages crumpled and tossed with the old perceptions. travel is neat that way. it seems to quicken life, the senses, even extending the directions in my timeline to all kinds of possibilities. (it’s the coming back where you realize that nothing has changed for anyone else but you. that one is always tricky.)
i suspect it will take a good while to fully share rio with you, something i look forward to. for now i’m getting some rest because i’ve having some vertigo. odd right? not the hitchcock cary grant afraid of heights kind of vertigo (ooh, one of my favorites.) but something that is throwing off my balance entirely…hope to get it back soon. kind of necessary, balance. no worries and besos to everyone out there, xx.
hello everyone! so you might have guessed from my last post that i was having a craving for someplace warm… and just like that, i’m traveling again. this time i returned to brasil. i’ve been in rio de janeiro all week and just as expected, it’s a stunning place. even in the winter, i’ve found the sun i was so desperately looking for. it’s so good to have my feet follow my heart.
i’m not quite ready to come home yet or get into regular posting, so i’ll write again soon when i unpack again. the suitcase life is good.
every time i see this building, even out of a city bus window, it makes me happy. how can buildings have such different personalities?
it’s freezing cold here, which makes it hard to do anything but wear blankets and sit by the fire reading. just across the rio, buenos aires has seen snow, for the first time in over eighty years. (and you know it’s cold when you can see your own breath in your house, brrr.) so i’m off to the theatre to warm up…
it also warms me to think that three out of the seven new wonders of the world are from latin american countries. and some of those places are not freezing cold right now…
there is a real graphic quality that black is lending to my jewelry lately. this chain is so lightweight that it allows for lots of draping, like tiny curtains. a city style with an edgy + elegant mix of both the sweet and the street. find them here…..
i just love this idea for displaying your jewelry…i wish i had a better quality picture for you, but it’s a really small image i clipped from a scandinavian magazine sent from astrid. as an heiress to her family’s iconic fashion house, margherita missoni must have quite the collection of jewels, but her whimsical way of hanging them on a radiator is so casual and ingenious. you can see everything out and they hang nicely in a room (just as long as the heat isn’t on!)
look for more tips soon, i just adding a new category for sharing them with you!
wouldn’t you know it, uruguay is celebrating vacaciones de invierno – it’s winter vacation here just as we americans are celebrating the birth of our great country. that overlap means some serious fiesta time is in order! i’m about to go do my hair, bundle up for the cold, lala, but not before i pop in here and share this with you…
Thomas Jefferson wrote that on that day of America’s birth, in the little hall in Philadelphia, debate raged for hours, but the issue remained in doubt. These were honorable men; still, to sign a Declaration of Independence seemed such an irretrievable act that the walls resounded with cries of “treason” and “the headsman’s axe.”
Then, it is said, one unknown man rose to speak. He was neither young, nor strong in voice; yet, he spoke with such conviction that he mesmerized the hall. He cited the grievances that had brought them to this moment. Then, his voice failing, he said: “They may turn every tree into a gallows, every hole into a grave, and yet the words of that parchment can never die. To the mechanic in the workshop, they will speak hope, to the slave in the mines, freedom. Sign that parchment. Sign if the next moment the noose is around your neck, for that parchment will be the textbook of freedom, the bible of the rights of man forever.” And sign they did.
What makes our revolution unique and so exciting, then, is that it changed the very concept of government. Here was a new nation telling the world that it was conceived in liberty; that all men are created equal with God-given rights, and that power ultimately resides in “We the people.”
We sometimes forget this great truth, and we never should, because putting people first has always been America’s secret weapon. It’s the way we’ve kept the spirit of our revolution alive — a spirit that drives us to dream and dare, and take great risks for a greater good. It’s the spirit of Fulton and Ford, the Wright brothers and Lindbergh, and of all our astronauts. It’s the spirit of Joe Louis, Babe Ruth, and a million others who may have been born poor, but who would not be denied their day in the Sun. ~ronald reagan 1981
happy 4th of july fellow americanos! see you after some festivity fun…xoxo
