"The wall is high, the black barn,

The babe in my arms in her swaddling clothes

And I know soon that the sky will split

And the planets will shift,

Balls of jade will drop and existence will stop.

Little sister, the sky is falling, I don't mind, I don't mind.

Little sister, the fates are calling on you...

Your soul was like a network of spittle,

Like glass balls movin' in like cold streams of logic,

And I prayed as the lightning attacked

That something will make it go crack, something will make it go crack,

Something will make it go crack, something will make it go crack." 

 -Patti Smith, "Kimberly"  

Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin/Jak & Jil Blog/Bec & Bridge A/W 10/11 lookbook/Tania O. by Jonathan Segrade, 160g, May/June 2010/Daria Werbowy by Nico, Harper's Bazaar Espana, May 2010/Masha Novoselova by Rennio Maifredi, Marie Claire Italia, May 2010

There are so many ways to seize the day. A tailored jacket, scrunched-up socks, slouchy sweats, and business man oxfords act as armor. Accessorize with spectacles, coffee to-go, cigarette, and hardcover. Party-time balloons and moments reserved for frolicking on city streets add shots of whimsy. - "Urban Outfitter," Elle Italia, April 2010, Caroline Winberg, shot by David Burton. 

Light and air/Life is a waking dream. In between consciousness and slumber, like slowly slinking into water. Sometimes you choose to get lost. - Jason Lee Parry photographs/Tara Vasev by Tommy Ton/192 Magazine/"Shrink to Fit," Vogue Italia, April 2010, shot by Steven Meisel/"Bijoux," Vogue Paris, Magdalena Frackowiak, shot by Claudia Knoepfel and Stefan Indlekofer/Nirrimi Hakanson photograph/"A Life Less Ordinary," Vogue UK, May 2010, Dorothea Barth-Jorgensen, shot by Paolo Roversi/ilovewildfox.com

"Women look like one thing when you don't know them and another when you do. It was not that he didn't like her. He would watch as she sat, dressing for the evening, before a folding mirror. In the circle of light her mysterious reflection did not even acknowledge him but watched self-absorbed as she applied the black around her eyes. Her necklaces hung from a deer antler. There were pictures cut from magazines tacked to the wall." -James Salter, Solo Faces

"Spring is like a perhaps hand/(which comes carefully/out of Nowhere)arranging/a window into which people look while/people stare..." -e.e. cummings - military accoutrements, crazy hair, bikini tops, up-to-there hot pants, birdlike touches, see-through tees, kooky epaulets, strangled denim, warm-weather leather

"You're such a beautiful fish/Floppin' on the summer sand/Lookin' for the wave you missed/When another one is close at hand" -Neil Young, "Stupid Girl" - Grey, Spring 2010, Sophie Vlaming, shot by Stefania Paparelli

Venus rising/Into full bloom... 
"You Ain’t Got Nothing But Nothing to Lose" Hailey Clauson, shot by Jason Lee Parry/Sally Mann photographs/Carmen Kass/"Les Soeurs Jac and Lily," Vogue Paris, April 2010, Monika Jagaciak and Lily Donaldson, shot by Steven Klein/Olivia Wilde, shot by Guy Aroch

Summer wants and to-do list: -sleep in the sun -high-heeled wooden clogs -sheer gauze -pick up a book -weathered leather backpack -ride passenger on a motorcycle -turquoise and silver -obtain a grass stain -sleeveless flannel shirt -discover tan lines -little-kid socks -keep it casual -palest pink jeans -wear a lei -be slightly savage -everything fringe -be a cowgirl in the sand