Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
“The next five months are grim ones. I always feel sorry to have the summertime change, with the dark evenings closing in mid-afternoon, and will try to lay in some physical comforts these months – the best insurance against gloominess for me.” ~ Sylvia Plath Summer where did you go? How is it September already? [...]
"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey." ~ Marcel Proust Slackin’ Kate I have slacked horribly with keeping up with my blog, comments, emails, and basically life in general the last two weeks. Just when I think I have caught up, [...]
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." ~ Buddha The guise of social media Social media is great at painting the guise of the picture perfect. All rainbows, butterflies, and amazing food, (okay I am envious of all the food pictures!) creating social [...]
"It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." ~ Rose Kennedy "They" They say with time it gets easier. I am not sure who "they [...]
"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time." ~ Jean Paul My sister and I had a knack of spoiling each other on our birthdays. We never had huge parties. Just family dinner and cake, yet we always went all out with each other. Whether it was spa days, beach days, or going out [...]
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." ~ Marcus Tulles Cicero People say time heals all wounds. It truly depends on what kind of wound it is. For some wounds, like those caused by death, even the best handcrafters can't glue back a shattered heart to the way it was before. [...]