It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look.....To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Henry Thoreau
Thursday, January 29, 2009
More wise words........
from Leila over at http://ourmothersdaughters.blogspot.com/2009/01/buy-low-sell-high-or-efficient-frugal.html
"I don't decorate. I put my pretty things around, but I don't decorate."
(Poor lady, she probably imagines I am stalking her :). I just love her blog and her perspective on life.)
How true. I've often wondered how/why people hire a decorator to decorate their home. To me, it seems what you have in your space should be things that inspire and delight *you*. A personal thing. How can someone else interpret that for you? I guess people can try and do make a good living at it. ;) I don't know how *I* could do that for anyone else ( not that anyone else would want me to;). I mostly just find things I really like and look for ways to incorporate them around here.
I really like that definition.
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Streams of consciousness from a mother of 10 who usually can't collect her thoughts and finds commas a nuisance.
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