"The wider world that perceives fashion as a...frivolity that should be done away with in the face of social upheavals and problems that are enormous...the point is...that fashion...it's the armour to survive the reality of everyday life. I don't think you could do away with it. It would be like doing away with civilization. I mean that's what I ( Read more... )

“It’s your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else or a community or a pressure group, you ( Read more... )

The stars are especially bright today
When this day is over
You said you were leaving and it made me sad all night long

Ah, the happy days, our many promises
They keep passing through my ears, making me sad

It’s not your fault but I want to cry
I am dreaming a dream that is too blue

"In the metaphysical world, Clear Quartz crystals are the supreme gift of Mother Earth. Resonating at the level of an individual's needs, Clear Quartz amplifies whatever energy or intent is programmed into it, and continues to broadcast that energy throughout the world and into the etheric realms. This may accelerate the fulfillment of one's ( Read more... )

1. If you love something deeply and want desperately to participate in it, you may need to elbow your way in for a seat at the proverbial table. Elbow away, darling. x

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and I would have stayed up
with you all night
had I known how to save a life

Clinging to me ( Read more... )

"I was in no way “fat,” but for someone who has been told they have a “beautiful body” throughout most of their childhood, simply because they are so thin, losing that thinness caused a great deal of distress. Losing that thinness meant losing the beauty that I had been so admired for as a child. It meant, in a way, losing my childhood. And at the ( Read more... )

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