Gloriosity: inspiration

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Monday, January 2, 2012

Well. Shall we begin again?

Updates seem like silly things. Trying to cram a million moments, changes, and inspirations from months of The Whirlwind into a brief caption of relevant but un-overwhelming type is all but futile, more often than not.

So I'm not going to bore you with an update, except to say: I'm back. Back in Philadelphia, Back in employment, Back with friends, Back in fabulousness, and Back in Gloriosity. And I'm as full of hope as ever.

New Year's was like a jar filled with Christmas lights... coming off the high of a magical December and hurtling headlong and sparkling into a music-filled party at the Crystal Tea Room at the top of Philadelphia's Wannamaker Building. Just me, my Philly-ettes, and 1600 of our nearest and dearest.

After an unutterably wonderful evening (the details of which range from exciting to ridiculous to shocking to lovely to brilliant, and can only be summed up in the quite non-descriptive but ultimately perfectly useful punctuation: [...] - after all, the ellipsis says everything that words can't-) I woke on New Year's morn to find three resolutions nestled in my heart. 1) Start drawing again, because it makes me happy. 2) Start blogging again, because life is too glorious not to share. 3) Accept wonderful things as they come, and don't ask for more. Life, in all it's varied experiences, is meant to be organic. Hope so much, but love to let life happen.

It's good to be back.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Today is Just Another Day to Be Fabulous.

I'll admit it. I would benefit from a stockpile of positivity, particularly during the current job-search period. But let's be serious. THE WHOLE WORLD would benefit from a stockpile of positivity.

So let's do this.

Close your eyes. Think of something that makes you feel really, shamelessly, brilliantly, incandescently wonderful.

I don't care what it is... a new sweater, hot chocolate on a snowy day, Schuyler Fisk singing with Harper Blynn, an old-fashioned movie, that moment when you and a friend think the exact same thing at the exact same time, finding a penny head's up, running through a sprinkler, winking at a stranger from across the bar, wearing red lipstick...

There's a lot of strife in the world. There's too much misdirected energy, misdirected hostility, senseless inconsideration, lack of communication.

So come on, kids. Think happy thoughts. Think happy thoughts and maybe we can get this whole world to fly. And while you're brainstorming, stash some of that fairy dust in your bedside table drawer. And don't ever be afraid to use it.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

The Plan.

Gotta be brief.

Been wildly busy, but how I ache for the whimsy of the blog world.

So here's the plan,

for the immediate future, and for the undetermined long-term:

They say a picture says a thousand words. So these two say 1,006 and 1,004, respectively.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Paint it Red.

So. Let's talk Red.

I went out on the town the other night and took with me some red, red, red lipstick.

And red makes everything better.

Be it on your walls,

on your lips,

or on your frock,

red can make ordinary simply extraordinary.

And it makes you feel fabulous, too.

My challenge to you? Wear red somehow, someway, every day for a week. See if you don't double your fabulosity.

photos: Marilyn Monroe, red painted lips from loveyourchais.tumblr, Gossip Girl spot from sirendoll.tumblr, Pia's Red Rose by ilina s on flickr, Just another shy princess by ~Enaaa on deviantART, Untitled by CrunchyLashes on flickr, zucch3rino.deviantart, Sex in the City image, Red Dress from lesmads.de, Little Red Riding Hood image by Rocio Montoya, your heart is an empty room by ~Danuva at deviantART, Marilyn Monroe