Love, Nick

"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."

-F. Scott Fizgerald, The Great Gatsby

Jollyism

"Alice was always apprehensive of occasions when happiness was a prerequisite, birthdays, feast days, reunions or weddings. She had difficulty enjoying things when under pressure to do so... Nothing made her sadder than someone who kept reminding her how happy she had to be." 

-Alain de Botton, The Romantic Movement

Love is to give

her the freedom.

Chloe's favorite time of the day

 

Is this the case

"[Bathsheba's] emblazoned fault was to be too pronounced in her objections, and not sufficiently overt in her likings. We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all." 

-Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

Far From the Madding Crowd

"What a way Oak had, she thought, of enduring things. Boldwood, who seemed so much deeper and higher and stronger in feeling than Gabriel, had not yet learnt, any more than she herself, the simple lesson which Oak showed a mastery of by every turn and look he gave -- that among the multitude of interests by which he was surrounded, those which affected his personal well-being were not the most absorbing and important in his eyes. Oak meditatively looked upon the horizon of circumstances without any special regard to his own standpoint in the midst."

-Thomas Hardy

Beautiful room, beautiful breakfast

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A perfect armful

Ann, the discriminating cheeseball

Ann, while reading Love Story: "This is so cheesy."
Me: "That's why I gave it to you."
"There's good cheesy and there's bad cheesy. This is bad cheesy."
"I thought you were an indiscriminating cheeseball."
"I'm a discriminating cheeseball."

Happy Father's Day

Kama Sutra cover design process

Really enjoy the cover of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of the Kama Sutra. It's tastefully daring. And the design process is quite intriguing. 

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Chillin' with Great Gramps

For future home

Jennifer Connelly & Baby Agnes

Espresso

My lil champion

Pleasant things

Love the vase and the simplicity of the branch-like plant.
Also, the blue trim on the mirror. And the antlers in the back.

Sarah Brenneman's art.
I'm especially taken by the colors in the dot/square painting on the bottom left. 

Quite mesmerizing. But probably wouldn't be so with black hair, sans the different shades. 

To learn first, and teach

How he writes faces

She was arrestingly beautiful. The color in her cheeks was centered like the color in a picture -- it was not a 'high' color, but a sort of fluctuating and feverish warmth, so shaded that it seemed at any moment it would recede and disappear. This color and the mobility of her mouth gave a continual impression of flux, of intense life, of passionate vitality -- balanced only partially by the sad luxury of her eyes." 

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Winter Dreams"

Bath time with Great Grandma

Smile

Chloe with Grandma

Kind

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Travel

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust 


"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."  - Mark Twain

Snow globe on my finger

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Cool women

With Great Grandpa

Garden State

"We may not be as happy as you always dreamed we would be, but for the first time let's just allow ourselves to be whatever it is we are and that will be better. OK?" 
- Large

Toys

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