Day 142: Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
note to self: Quit waiting and go be it.
Day 141: I’d rather have flowers on my table than diamonds on my neck. -Emma Goldman
Today my friend Katie from Cloth of Gold Flowers taught our creative girls group, Curtsy, about floral arranging, and this one’s mine! (photo: Spindle Photography)
Day 140: Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour. -Dorothy Parker
Day 139: It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less. -Nathan W. Morris
Day 138: Turn everything off & listen to yourself.
Day 137: When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Day 136: There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that kind of the point? -Pam, The Office Series Finale
Day 135: The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. -Randall Jarrell
Day 134: I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise. -Margaret Atwood
(photography and lettering by Kelly Cummings)
Day 133: He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. -Cicero
Day 132: My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. -Mark Twain
Day 131: Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
Day 130: There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired. -The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Day 129: When you do something that feeds your soul, at the end of the day you are the kind of tired that accompanies a full, satisfied belly. -Kelly Cummings
A coffee date with a fellow letterer, the crazy talented Sarah Ragan, inspired me to letter an original quote about pursuing fulfilling work that you are passionate about. I am so exhausted after a wedding but it’s the best kind of exhaustion. And I love food and the word belly so here you have it.
Day 128: All I kept thinking about, over and over, was “You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
