Author: chocolatearistocrat

It is not often in my day to day activities I see someone who grabs my attention and causes me to stop in mid sentence. While thrifting with a focus on purchasing a suit I saw on the thrift shops Facebook I became aware of a beautiful woman who entered the door. Was it her smile, graceful walk, or her focus on where she was going?

  

I soon discovered she had placed the suit on hold that I came to purchase! We laughed and I ask her if I could take her picture and share it on my website. Anita is her name and she was kind and agreed after an exchange of information. The sense of giving your all but holding back just a little something is enchanting to me. I felt an air of charm while in her presence or perhaps it was the eyes? As Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who was advised by Diana Vreeland said ” If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.” I believe Lady Anita is proof that books are alive and well!

Time moves on with or without that something special. Or so it may seem. I enjoy beauty in all forms and elegance in its simplicity. Often we’re reminded that the “world is not what it used to be. That is neither good or not so good, it just is. 

   
   
Be it a fine fragrance, a well designed accessory, a state of the art automobile or great service. It’s all in the details of our daily life that beauty, elegance and simplicity show up.

   
 Perhaps you’ll join me in my attempt to accelerate the world’s transition to a sustainable place of Peace and Beauty by doing your part in a small simplistic and beautiful way? For that…I thank you!

“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.”

   
   
“There ought to be gardens for all the months in the year; in which severally things of beauty may be then in season.”

   
   
“The green hath two pleasures: green grass kept finely shorn; the other a stately hedge which is to enclose the garden.”

   
 
“nothing to the true pleasure of a garden. ”

      -Francis Bacon  -The Essays

As I lift each stone and place it gently where it longs to be I smile to the Angels of the Garden. Just knowing that the vision will come through and joy will delight in my efforts of planting a simple garden.

May your weekend be sweet and filled with love and laughter! Mine will be filled with chocolate from Olive and Sinclair. Be sure to find the Joy in you and share!