Tag: New Orleans
Wordless Wednesday
New Orleans International Women’s Day Celebration – Free!
Morning Meditation: Moments
Where do those moments go, the ones where you feel perfectly content, like your place in the world is perfect and guaranteed and you are where you’re meant to be? They appear so unexpectedly: looking out the window at the kitchen sink as you pour your second cup of coffee, beneath the old magnolia with your hands in the dirt, on the ferry landing at the clang of the streetcar and the river breeze in your face. The sun shines on your head and you feel it’s soothing warmth traveling to the ends of every nerve in your body, a … Continue reading Morning Meditation: Moments
Wordless Wednesday: Gray Day
Wordless Ash Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday: Streetside Vignette
Book Review: New Orleans Style
New Orleans Style, by New Orleans Fashion Week founder and designer Andi Eaton, is a compact little book exploring the historical influences and the unique culture of our city and how it manifests in today’s fashion. The first six chapters trace the founding of the city to the Jazz Age with lots of historical details, touching on local customs and dress. It was evident a lot of effort went into compiling this information which is presented with archival photographs and illustrations. She then delves into Mardi Gras culture and couture and festival fashion, again with well researched historical detail. While … Continue reading Book Review: New Orleans Style
Wordless Wednesday: Carnival Convo
Hot Reads Plus
Lots of good things to share today that I’ve read and watched over the past week or so. Enjoy! On The Miscreant, a flash fiction by James Claffey “The Air, Fair Crackling”. Also by James on Flash Fiction Chronicles, “Why I Write Flash Fiction”. I like this quote in the piece: “Flash fiction, ultimately, is about finding your form, discovering the right angle with which to cut the diamond into facets, showing a world in a moment.” On Brain Pickings, Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Eulogy to Her Soul Mate”. Photo above of Mary Oliver (b. … Continue reading Hot Reads Plus
