Jenny Mendes

Kintsugi Rings Qian Yang  is a  London College of Fashion  2014 graduate. In his collection, the jewellery designer with a degree in Fashion Jewellery, blends second hand porcelain inspired from the Japanese gold repair technique, ‘Kintsugi’.

I will remember you as a true friend of my mothers who will be dearly missed, as one who was very generous of  herself to countless students, and above all as a person who absolutely and completely adored her cats, unconditional and total love, I witnessed this in you.

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Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity “Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.” BY MARIA POPOVA The  third volume of Anaïs Nin’s diaries  has been on heavy rotation in recent weeks, yielding Nin’s thoughtful and timeless meditations on  life ,  mass movements ,  Paris vs. New York ,  what makes a great city , and  the joy of handicraft . The subsequent installment,  The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947  ( public library ) is an equally rich treasure trove of wisdom on everything from life to love to the art of writing. In fact, Nin’s gift shines most powerfully when she addresses all of these subjects and more in just a few ripe sentences. Such is the case with the following exquisite letter of advice she sent to a seventeen-year-old aspiring author by the name of Leonard W., whom she had taken under her wing as creative mentor. Nin

"I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better." Mary Oliver - Sleeping in the Forest

"What you're looking at is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain's parietal cortex, which creates happiness. You're looking at happiness." (image source unkown) - 

With Syria. Posted by Banksy on Monday, March 17, 2014

Korean Potter An Si Sung creates an Onggi Jar In the town of Gimje, starting with local clay, An Si Sung uses the traditional methods to build an Onggi jar. Posted by Lee Middleman on Monday, April 18, 2011

I hope you have a lovely day with someone you love!  I'm waiting for my my party to begin!!

Working on some valentines during a date with my dear Valentine making friend.  Not yet in the zone but I've got all week to get it right for my special someones! ❤️😊❤️

Above the mountains the geese turn into the light again Painting their black silhouettes on an open sky. Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you. Sometimes it takes a great sky to find that first, bright and indescribable wedge of freedom in your own heart. Sometimes with the bones of the black sticks left when the fire has gone out someone has written something new in the ashes of your life. You are not leaving. Even as the light fades quickly now, you are arriving. from  ‘House of Belonging’  by David Whyte

Nothing like getting super creative with your instrument!!

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

My oldest friend sent me this video this morning.... with the comment, I know how much you like Ted talks, and this will be my daughter's new roommate!  An articulate beautiful woman with an inspiring message!