Mary Oliver, “Don’t Hesitate.”

“A really unique shot; I love it because it was a face mother would make—but never in the presence of cameras.”

-Cheryl Crane, Lana Turner’s daughter

brocante_odette 

𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟷𝟻, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: August 15. Wasted day. Spent sleeping and lying down. END ID]

Moon Waters  -  H.M. Saffer II , n/d.

American, b. 1942  -

Oil on canvas ,    30 x 30 in.    

Sophia Loren, 1961

Photo by Ed Clark

Czeslaw Milosz, tr. by Robert Haas, from “Late Ripeness”, Second Space: New Poems

More often than not, looking cool means looking almost but not quite ugly. There must be risk; that’s how you display your love of danger. A tasteful knee-length dress with a nipped waist and a full skirt and just a touch of stretch is never going to look cool because it makes it too obviously easy to look good. Refinement lies in finding ever subtler and more discerning ways to be almost-ugly. Things that have achieved recent ubiquity by their nearness to ugliness include Birkenstocks, top knots, and millennial pink… It doesn’t look good, quite, but it does look … intriguing. They present a challenge. Who will accept it?

Succumb to the Siren Call of Unflattering Pants

Mémoire. Nora Attal photographed by Brydie Mack for Faithfull the Brand Summer 2020.

I don’t think any version of myself is truer than another. We’re each of us ecosystems: all my lives are dependent on each other. I would be sad if I were alone all the time, but when I don’t have any time alone I feel suffocated and panicky. Sometimes one life “swallows” all the other lives, and this can be unhealthy—I think this is what happens to people who are workaholics or have their entire identity subsumed by parenthood. I guess the truth is many lives add up to one complete person.

Ava, many lives