Fashioning an inspired life
I am excited to share another Girl Crushin’ profile with you! Today, our subject is the stunning Jenai Dominique. Jenai is an aspiring fashion stylist with big dreams and charisma to spare. You know when you meet someone for the first time and there is that bubble of nervous expectation present in your spirit? When our natural human insecurity rears its ugly head and silly…
This past weekend I made a quick trip to NYC to see my dear friend, Gabby. This girl was my roommate last summer. It was a roommate success story (Hurrah! We need more of these in the world). We spent the days interning for little to no money, obsessively finding new restaurants to try and dancing with abandon at free shows. I can’t believe a…
Today’s post is centered around two singular inspirations that, in my mind, feed off of each other . Yesterday, I read Ezra Pound’s famous poem, In a Station of the Metro. Pound said that he was inspired to write this poem from sudden glimpses of beauty he saw one day as he exited the train (read about it here). This theme also carried over into a Ted…
At times, I feel like my mind is a game of pinball. My thoughts ping up and down, back and forth, with no apparent pattern. Lights go off sporadically as I am constantly inspired, brimming with ideas of things to do and places to go. Welcome to my downfall. My constant inspiration inevitably brings me to choice paralysis. What should I do first? What activity…
Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. Maybe it is your friend’s birthday and she requests cinnamon, and you get all these ideas for the perfect cake. Sometimes the cake doesn’t live up to your standards and rain ruins the birthday party plans. But sometimes there is a silver lining, in the form of a rainbow. Maybe there is even a very faint double rainbow….