Bio by Julie Powell, author of Julie & Julia, which was made into a movie.

From "The Secret of My Success (in 100 words or less)" featured in the February issue of Glamour Magazine. Successful ladies were asked to "tell their life story in the space of a cocktail napkin".

My other favorite:

- Julie Lumet, screenwriter of Rachel Getting Married
How would your "bite-size bio" read?

Original article by Laurie Sandell.
Font: Joyful Juliana from Dafont.com.

"Before I travelled my road I was my road."

- Antonio Porchia

Wisdom from a Boulder, Colorado building.

"Blossom by blossom
the Spring begins."

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

From Penelope Cruz's Oscar acceptance speech.

Font: "St Moviehead" from Dafont.

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

Walk on cracks - be messy - feel lost and a bit broken - lack the answers - love the imperfections...


Images:
- My photo of the Park West
- Thumbsucker Promotional Materials
- Maira Kalman note

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
- William Blake

“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.”
- Oscar Wilde

from the Crystal Palace Collection by Swarovski

When I was a kid, I'm sure my letter to God would have read something like: Dear God: Can you make more snow days? It sure is neat when school is cancelled like that.

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."
~ Ludwig Börne

If you are a poet, you will see that there is a cloud in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the tress cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

what is lovely never dies
but instead passes into
other loveliness -
stardust or seafoam
flower or winged air.

- Author Unknown
(quoted in Sark calendar)

For Jenny, Abbey & Nancy.

Photo by Sandi.

"Sometimes your only available transporation is a leap of faith."

~ Margaret Shepherd

love is not gourmet
cream truffles
or pacified sucks.
but walking on broken rocks
-where nobody goes - love is.

jane mayhall