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Over the past few years, I've recognized the persistence of my personal basics as a sort of affirmative beauty. I think of this positivity as growth beyond thinking of it as acquiescence to stagnancy or disengagement from nowness.
I'm beginning to see discoveries like this one as sort of scenic overlooks along the winding road toward a destination of enough + less + fair.
Today's recognition seems ever so related. It is just another tiny spark that keeps things interesting + makes it all feel like - yes! there is beauty here. This insight came in the form of an image of basics being worn in a way that I just hadn't been thinking of before. A perfectly hip grazing sweatshirt worn with a ribbed skirt? Yes! An oversized button-up with oversized jeans? Well, yes! These are not necessarily the basics that I see myself wearing, but they are just the spark that sets me off toward my own basics wondering how I might be able to combine them a little differently.
Lately I'm also seeing color combinations as revelatory. There are certain color combinations that hit my brain like umami - they make me aware of what eyes are for...that they are attached to my brain...that my brain can light up with pure joy! Oh, what pleasure could be derived from wearing orange slides with an otherwise neutral outfit!? Why not see lavender as a neutral? (I have bought nothing, but the mere thoughts make me feel alive.) And when I leave the house, I remember my own orangey-red bag that is years old, and it gives me a little joy jolt as I throw it on with my own monochromic look.
Yep, I'm alive. Thank goodness.
All joy jolty photos via links!
Love,
Jane
I'm beginning to see discoveries like this one as sort of scenic overlooks along the winding road toward a destination of enough + less + fair.
Today's recognition seems ever so related. It is just another tiny spark that keeps things interesting + makes it all feel like - yes! there is beauty here. This insight came in the form of an image of basics being worn in a way that I just hadn't been thinking of before. A perfectly hip grazing sweatshirt worn with a ribbed skirt? Yes! An oversized button-up with oversized jeans? Well, yes! These are not necessarily the basics that I see myself wearing, but they are just the spark that sets me off toward my own basics wondering how I might be able to combine them a little differently.
Lately I'm also seeing color combinations as revelatory. There are certain color combinations that hit my brain like umami - they make me aware of what eyes are for...that they are attached to my brain...that my brain can light up with pure joy! Oh, what pleasure could be derived from wearing orange slides with an otherwise neutral outfit!? Why not see lavender as a neutral? (I have bought nothing, but the mere thoughts make me feel alive.) And when I leave the house, I remember my own orangey-red bag that is years old, and it gives me a little joy jolt as I throw it on with my own monochromic look.
Yep, I'm alive. Thank goodness.
All joy jolty photos via links!
Love,
Jane
