I've Always Loved a Challenge

Since I'm charming and from "The South" I have exquisite manners and excellent taste in swear words. I like to win and astrology. If you don't like music don't pull up next to me at stoplights. It's a party. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-19606672-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

[kathrynsoloway]

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers which cannot be given to you, because you would not be able to live them and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now..."

Ranier Maria Rilke Re-reading a journal a wrote when I was 17 years old. This quote had meaning for me then, and still does now. A good quote for life, really.

[hahahabbie]

[live-to-the-point-of-tears]

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

Eckhart Tolle (via live-to-the-point-of-tears)

This is everything I need to remember right now. Perfectly said.

[kathrynsoloway]

Cuff by Charles Loloma. 18K gold inlayed with coral, sugilite, and turquoise.

[kathrynsoloway]

Now we are face to face once again with a period of heightened peril. The risks are great, the burdens heavy, the problems incapable of swift or lasting solution. And under the strains and frustrations imposed by constant tension and harassment, the discordant voices of extremism are heard once again in the land. Men who are unwilling to face up to the danger from without are convinced that the real danger comes from within. They look suspiciously at their neighbors and their leaders. They call for a ‘man on horseback’ because they do not trust the people. They find treason in our finest churches, in our highest court, and even in the treatment of our water. They equate the Democratic Party with the welfare state, the welfare state with socialism, and socialism with communism. They object quite rightly to politics' intruding on the military -- but they are anxious for the military to engage in politics. But you and I and most Americans take a different view of our peril. We know that it comes from without, not within. It must be met by quiet preparedness, not provocative speeches. Let our patriotism be reflected in the creation of confidence rather than crusades of suspicion. Let us prove we think our country great by striving to make it greater. And, above all, let us remember that, however serious the outlook, the one great irreversible trend in world history is on the side of liberty – and so, for all time to come, are we.

John F. Kennedy, Excerpts of a speech given at a Dinner of the Democratic Party of California in Los Angeles, 1961

[kathrynsoloway]

In a world of complex and continuing problems, in a world full of frustrations and irritations, America's leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason -- or else those who confuse rhetoric with reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem.

John F. Kennedy An excerpt from the speech John F. Kennedy was scheduled to deliver the day he was assassinated, November 22, 1963.

[kathrynsoloway]

Hiking with @jsolowiej 🗻

[kathrynsoloway]

Just know that this flower was about the size of a dinner plate. #dahlias #colorado

[kathrynsoloway]

Black and white makes everything more precious.

[kathrynsoloway]

Sometimes it's good just to take a moment and RELAX.

[kathrynsoloway]

#50shadesofMay with @abisnab

[thewolveswithin]

Kate Moss - Allure May 1996 ‘Head Master - Kate Moss by Steven Klein

[kathrynsoloway]

Sorry Corepower, I don't think there's going to ever be a time when I will want to hear the title song to "Fame" during yoga.

[kathrynsoloway]

The perfect early birthday present #needlepointpillows

[foodffs]

CARROT CAKE COOKIES WITH COCONUT CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Show me what you cooked!

[kathrynsoloway]

Yummmmmm.

[kathrynsoloway]

Heart weeps. Head tries to help Heart.  Head tells heart how it is, again. You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the Earth will go, someday. Heart feels better, then. But the words of the head do not remain long in the ears of Heart.  Heart is so new to this. I want them back, says Heart. Head is all Heart has. Help, head. Help Heart.

″Head, Heart” by Lydia Davis, 2007

[vifranalencar]

“In Venice. Endless Delight”, Vogue US, August 1980. Lauren Hutton by John Stember