myPod: all messed up

Now I'm all messed up via YouTube

Got introduced to Tegan and Sara last year in a fit of musical education.  Love, love the soulful pop synth that is their album, Heartthrob.  Currently on my playlist?  Now I'm all messed up - take a listen above.  

Wanderlust: 20 places in the world you must see

Swiss Alps in Autumn; photo: Robin Halioua via Airows

Feeling restless?  I am.  For some world wandering inspiration you MUST check out this beautiful list from Airows of 20 places that will make you want to run around the globe.

My top 5? (Aside from the Swiss Alps, above - ok, and basically the whole list.)

Antarctica.  I can't handle the cold but I'm going, going, going. Photo: Jim Raycroft

Canyon Waves in Arizona.  Photo: Greg Mote

Falling off cliffsides in France.  Photo: Tim Geers

Stunning transparent waters in Portugal. Photo: Agostinho Fernandes

And, last but not least - the Stairway to Heaven which hopefully I'll get to do with my loves, Lucy, Anna and LG in April.  Aloha, Hawaii.  Photo: Mark Payton

For the boys

Thanks Airows via Vanity Fair

Sit. Feast on your life.

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life. 

Derek Walcott

Fancy a weekend away?

Mulberry Clipper Leather Holdall

Wallace and Barnes Duffel

WANT Les Essentiels De La Vie Canvas and Leather Holdall

Montague Leather Weekender

I love a men's weekender bag - super sexy slung over the shoulder of a well-kept man.  Christmas had me searching for one as a gift, and I found the perfect one at JCrew - soft, well-worn leather - the Montague leather weekender from J.Crew.  Even better in person.

Quiet minds

Dear reader, I have been remiss in the second half of 2013.  Far too caught up in the rif raf of day to day.  NYC has almost gotten the best of me.  I'm not much for resolutions but, what for 2014?  A quiet mind and a healthy body.  And a return to beauty.  Back on the blog.