If you believe in the dichotomies, you may find yourself to be a contradictory person...I guess I do!.... I'm deeply, weirdly practical: I love fixing plumbing and irrigation, I delight in very technical baking projects, I love sewing and mending and knitting and biking... all for very practical reasons.
Parallel to this practical aspect runs a deep satisfaction in beauty. I love (love love love love love) fashion, painting, cooking without a recipe, drawing, playing music, singing, dancing and can obsess for hours over the lighting in one photo i find in the blogosphere (just ask my boyfriend...). In my early college years these parallel aspects of my personality wanted to become warring ideologies, but the more they develop the more I realize that they work in tangent to keep me inspired!
So I propose a toast (if indeed there is anyone here to toast with!) : To the beauty of necessity and the necessity of beauty!
Here is a list of what has been inspiring me lately:
kitchens,
braids, poppies, late summer, prairie dresses,
early 1900's fashion,
long hair,
aprons,
plant breeding,
mothers,
grandmothers,
seeds,
canning,
butchers,
oxfords,
menswear,
beards,
soil,
the northwest,
chickens,
the tallest man on earth,
first aid kit,
joanna newsom,
blossom dearie,
the accordian,
ruby red slippers,
farm boots,
garden clogs,
straw hats,
long skirts,
parasols,
and of course my parallel:
