PerspectiveHaving an opinion. That is valuable.SimplicityI recently inherited an old olympus 35RC. An automatic, circa 1970. It is light, attractive and simple. The first roll I shot produced images ...
So... change of plans. Which you might find amusing...if youre me.
Why my bag is right for me: It is practical, simple, well-executed and brand-less, in the right color, in a material I can wash. I had no association with it before I encountered it, nor after. I hav...
Standing in line on Friday to buy what seemed like the last package of D batteries in NY, the guy in front of me turned around and said to me, "If its going to be bad, Im going out happy," h...
I am going to post this now. Its 12:42am, so technically I guess its Sunday. I think a loss of power is quite possible, due to the storm that is entering NY state, in which case I might not be postin...
I think my earlier post about the contents of my bag best illustrates what I mean by lifeboat. We use purses as more than a container for our essentials. We fill them with supplies that address the &...
Ive spent some serious money on bags in the past. Each one is perfect and worth the money, but they are no longer worth my money. By that I mean that while I appreciate and respect the bags, I wouldn...
I tried to downsize today, so I switched to a smaller bag, and reduced my contents...but not by a lot. Not by enough. I have a theory about bags, but I will have to get to that tomorrow because some ...
Before I proceed with a discussion about purses, I should examine what is in my current bag. Without editing or adjusting the contents in anyway, in one small LLBean tote: metrocard in a plastic hold...
Walking around on the beach or swimming in the pond, or driving down an empty road at night, the thoughts wander all over the place. My brain fills with ideas about everything and nothing, simultaneo...
I am on the requisite family vacation at the cape, hearing plans being made for next year and I only find peace when my mind begins a list of things I will want to buy to build a Cape-specific wardro...
I am trying to imagine what the world would be like if honesty were plastered across all of our "wants."
Ive been very sad for the UK this week. People say to me, you left London just in time, but I dont want to "escape" from a city I care about, and I dont think distance puts me at much safety ...
Returned from trip with new eyes, new tolerance for leaving things on the table for a bit (like a pitcher of milk for the tea, which in the past would have been rushed back into the fridge after each...
Clothing is possession.Clothing is possession in 2 very different ways.1. One cannot buy the intelligence, talent, fame, beauty, etc. of ones role models, but you can buy/own some of their same thing...
Clothing is style.Under "style" I also file "expression." Its something personal, ideally for yourself, unavoidably experienced by others.Clothing is a part of the process of forming ...
Clothing is fashion.Fashion is one of many ways to check or read the cultural pulse of a group or time. Fashion reveals politics, trends, attitudes, influences, values, status. It conveys the present...
Clothing is necessary.Because clothing is also the other three things that I will define this week, there is guilt and self-consciousness bound up in it as well but, first and foremost, clothing is n...
Away from my things, surrounded by new things, I feel both disoriented and stabilized. How we relate to and desire things is shaped by who we are, but influenced by what we encounter and/or are direc...
During the 1960s, Franck crystallised his concept of designer responsibility. He took a radical approach, emphasising the designers role in advancing social values, ethics, aesthetics and anti-materi...
With two exceptions, Ive been hand washing everything. But once after Scotland, and once after Finland, we turned our things in for laundry service. My nightshirt was lost by the laundry service. Its...
The Geffrye House Museum drove home* for me the fact that materialism in its present form (widely accessible, quantitatively relevant, qualitatively insignificant) and the social appetite for things ...
I preface this post by declaring that I have never lost an umbrella.I wrote the same preface on a previous blog some time ago to rationalize why I had spent money on a nice full-size umbrella. I stil...
If one wanted to accuse me of being...detail-oriented, and if I were in a contrary mood and wanted to refute such an assertion, I would take care not to reveal that I bought this book (
I liked that design was casually accessible. Its a part of how things are built.Hotel lobbyI liked having lunch at Tori (
Nothing like traveling and hauling the baggage ssociated with that to have a few load-lightening epiphanies. 1. If I packed a heavy bag for the day and started to feel a real strain on my shoulder af...
Interesting discussion with my mom this week via email.She is routinely traumatized by reading here about my fondness for, and occasional consumption of very decadent (in price/quality) items. Where ...
In Scotland, the isolation in the cottage was literal, so there was a lot of space to create our own routines. One of my favorites was reading a few chapters each day, with mallow-filled, chocolate c...
So, as I mentioned yesterday, in Scotland we were surrounded by poo. But there were also gorgeous green hills, intimidating ocean, very amazing animals (it is impossible to feel isolated sleeping in ...
So, out in the very rural Highlands of Scotland, far from all the things I know and see every day, I noticed that 1. I missed my clothes, 2. I missed blogging, and 3. I had no impulse whatsoever to w...
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