Kitty Tatch and Katherine Hazelston, waitresses at Yosemite National Park hotels, dance on Overhanging Rock at Glacier Point in 1900.
Photo by George Fiske
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Eddie Peake and Lulu Kennedy t shirt for Studio Voltaire. YES PLEASE!

When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant. 

-- Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies

Found at gravelandgold

Ali MacGraw

This made me giggle...i'm a child!

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Coatt

Beautiful morse coded bracelets from Coatt in a plethora of revolving word options including LOVE, PEACE, YES....

Bjork - Moon

Bjork - Moon from Vilmos Toth on Vimeo.

The Door to Hell...

 According to Wikipedia...
 "In 1971, while drilling for natural gas in Darvaza, Turkmenistan, the ground on which the drilling rig was placed collapsed, leaving a large gaping hole exposed with a diameter of around 60 meters. To avoid poisonous gases coming out of the hole, it was decided to let the gases burn. As of 2008, gases in the underground cavern are still burning without interruption. Locals have named the cavern The Door to Hell."

Found here

Found here

Athena Procopiou

Amazing print silk scarfs from Athena Procopiou

Doug Perrine captured these beautiful images in the Maldives. The particular location (Vaadhoo Island) has a concentrated population of bioluminescent phytoplankton. Bioluminescence is a natural chemical reaction which occurs when a micro-organism in the water reacts with oxygen. When washed ashore by the tides, the phytoplankton’s chemical energy is turned into light energy, illuminating the waves.

Found via  known-stranger

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and i rose. I did get knocked down in front of the whole world, and i rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where i had been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself. You say "hmmm...i can get up! I have so much courage in me that i have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up." That's it. That's how you get to know who you are. 

--Maya Angelou

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It might be hard to get 'well-grounded' in shoes like these, but i LOVE them!!

Grounding

"To loose unnecessary tension we need to find adequate support from our bones. Bones are the only structural parts of the body that can transmit forces; they are, therefore, the means by which the weight of the body is transmitted to the floor. 

When we allow this to happen, without tightening muscles unnecessarily, we need to become well grounded. A well grounded body can become still, much in the way a bowl of water becomes still, if undisturbed. This is quiet different to becoming stiff like a brick wall. Both may be unmoving, but only the bowl of water has the potential for movement. 

When well-grounded we may be still, but the slightest impulse could initiate movement. Any unhelpful muscle tension will stiffen us and take the potential for movement away. In well-grounded movements, breathing can adjust appropriately, where as stiffness tends to 'fix' breathing." 

--Peter Blackaby Intelligent Yoga

Experiment with this in a simple posture...it's important and interesting stuff!

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Stained-glass window by artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans in the 1887 Museum at Eldridge Street.

Hear them both talk about their stained glass window in the below.

Nebula Sweatshirt from super-collider

Mars

"There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, ‘tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings…”
-- Leonardo da Vinci

After touching down on the western side of Mars’ Chryse Planitia in 1976, the Viking 1 lander beamed back the first images from the surface of another planet – revealing for the first time a red, dusty world eerily similar yet strangely different from our own. over the next six years, the lander and its orbiting co-worker sent back hundreds of images of the planet from above and down below, revealing eroded channels, cratered plains and, for the first time, sunset on another world.

Images from Daniel Blau London.

Stompin Dave

Adding learn to tap dance to my list of things to do...

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites -- opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity, where energies flow smoothly in one direction, there will be much doing but no music.

-- Eric Hoffer

Love your feet!
image found here

Isabelle Cornaro

Isabelle Cornaro

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Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune