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Posted on September 17, 2016 by Frances Livings

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Bandleader & foreign language singer w Ipanema Lounge 🎶Author, Art Historian w PhD | jazz cook, dog, art + nature lover #livejazz #IpanemaLoungeJazz

🎨 Featured artist of the week is Brooke Shaden

🎨 Featured artist of the week is Brooke Shaden Photography who you can also follow on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/brookeshaden/
I am currently doing some research on a new topic I'm exploring (so stay posted!) – and Brooke's image seemed just so suitable for a quote I wanted to share with you on (unhealthy) LOVE:

"Sacrificing yourself at the altar of someone else's pathology is not a measure of your love for them, it's a measure of your willingness to be abused by them." – Tara J. Palatier

Sometimes we can feel (unconsciously) attracted to people who display similarly unhealthy traits to the ones our dysfunctional or even abusive primary caregivers did (or still do). Always follow your gut instincts – or your dreams, try to be aware of your own "patterns" and shortcomings and most of all, be kind to yourself 💝

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☕ Good morning! It's Poetry-Friday. Here's a lit

☕ Good morning! It's Poetry-Friday. Here's a little piece I wrote called Breakfast! Have a good morning and a good day...

Breakfast

Honey‘s for mothers
jam is for girls
with strawberry mouths
and lemon curd curls

Soldiers in yoke
line up for little boys...

Read the rest of the poem here: https://franceslivings.com/poetry/breakfast/

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I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
– Sarah Williams

Sarah Williams is an often overlooked English poet of the mid-19th century, And “The Old Astronomer” is one of her best known poems. It's about a dying astronomer who offers his last words of wisdom to his student.
Grappling with mortality is a prominent theme in Williams’ writing, and in particular this poem, which she wrote while battling cancer not long before her own death. In this line from the poem, she urges us to value the bright spots in our lives, and to make peace — however we each can — with the impermanent nature of living.

The painting "The Astronomer" (Dutch: De astronoom) is by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. He finished it in about 1668, in oil on canvas and is on display at the Louvre, in Paris, France.

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Another lovely evening at one of my favourite hang

Another lovely evening at one of my favourite hangs — a little French restaurant tucked away on a quiet cobblestone street…
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Hey, and what did you do today? I fixed my piano!

Hey, and what did you do today? I fixed my piano! Just like that…
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🌕 Wishing you an abundance of magical time ✨

🌕 Wishing you an abundance of magical time ✨ ⏳ on your hands in 2022 to do all of those wonderful things... ✨
May you find joy, peace and lots of hugs 💜 Happy New Year 2022 💜
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Today at my Villa: T‘was a foggy night, the kind

Today at my Villa: T‘was a foggy night, the kind of night when Dracula strikes… and it was *holy shit* only 4 pm in the afternoon!

📸 Do you know Francesca Woodman? This week she'

📸 Do you know Francesca Woodman? This week she's my featured female artist. I found some inspiration for one of my songs in her work. Sadly, she didn't live a very long life but managed to create an oeuvre of over 800 self-portraits: Like the American photographer and filmmaker Cindy Sherman, whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters, Woodman used herself as a model. I love the anecdote that when she was asked by a friend why she obsessively photographed herself, (who perhaps found it oddly narcissistic), Woodman replied:

“It’s a matter of convenience, I am always available.”

Read more in the following blogpost:
https://franceslivings.com/eating-the-darkness-francesca-woodman-wallpaper/

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It’s getting cold? That said, it does make for s

It’s getting cold? That said, it does make for some dramatic skies! Happy post-Thanksgiving, happy soon to be December - be safe!

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