“The core of your
true self
is never lost.
Let go of all the
pretending and
the becoming
you’ve done just
to belong.
Curl up with your
rawness and come home.
You don’t have to
find yourself;
you just have to
let yourself in.”
― D Antoinette Foy
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“Don’t forget that the land is always out there, making its way, doing everything it can so you can breathe fresh air; so you can eat fresh food; so you can move and see and feel and think, and it’s on your side. The world is out there doing what it’s been doing way before you came here, it’s firm and strong and it takes a lot to bring it down.
So from time to time, just go outside and look at this spectacle. This pure painting right in front of your eyes. No one created it. No one owns it. It doesn’t want anything. It doesn’t need to prove anything to anyone. It simply is.
So maybe, try a little tenderness. Just give it a chance to do what it can do. Just let it help you
breathe
and eat
and move
and see
and maybe just try to live your life in a way that doesn’t kill this force of nature
that is just trying to give you a world worth living in. A clean world. A fresh world.
Paths, forests, oceans, animals, oxygen, water. That’s all it takes.
Just try a little tenderness towards this world we’ve been lucky enough to build our homes on.
If you take care of it, it will take care of you.”
[Charlotte Eriksson]
“I prefer winter and fall, when you can feel the bone structure in the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” [Andrew Wyeth]
Today’s the day to shop small and support local! The studio is open until 6 PM today. Can’t wait to see you!
My friends Gina and Alex hosted a Handbags with Heart event last year to support women at Dorothy’s Community Closet – a venue put together by Gina Johnson to provide free clothing to anyone in need in the Hartford area.
When I shared on FB that the studio was going to collect items for their event, clients and friends contacted me to say that they’d like to do the same project to support women in Manchester area shelters. So we did.
The response was amazing! We had over 150 gently used handbags and an abundance of personal hygiene items to put inside them donated. This meant an ability to support over five different shelters in the area.
Along with the many thank you notes received, I had one very moving conversation with a woman who stopped in to give us some items. She told me that there was a time that her and her children had to stay in shelters. While they needed and very much appreciated any item of help that they received …. what she said blessed her the most was knowing that she was not forgotten about.
She expressed that once you are in a situation like that you feel marginalized, invisible, and undervalued. The fact that anyone would consider going out of their way to donate personal care items, socks, stuffed animals for her kids … gave her hope. It meant that somebody knew she existed – and cared that she was alive.
Don’t ever underestimate the value of your random acts of kindness. No matter how big or small, it may be just the sustenance another human being needs to get out of bed one more day.
If you’d like to donate items for this years Handbags with Heart project please see event details here. We still need gently used handbags and lots of personal care items such as: shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, toothbrushes, tampons, toilet paper, socks, etc. All items need to be dropped off before December 4, 2016. Thanks in advance for considering participating in this years event. ♥
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In addition, drop in on election day, Tuesday, November 8, 2016 between the hours of 10 AM – 8 PM for a relaxing, rejuvenating chair massage for only $10.00. [normally $12.00] No appointment necessary. See you then!
Tania Palermo [Studio on Main] 