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I imagine / Her name is Margaret. It was her mother's name and her mother's mother and, as it happens, her father's mother's name too. Her friends call her Maggie and she's in love with the man who's painting her, but he is in love with art which she doesn't really understand and can't compete with. After their session is done, her best friend Penelope will scoop her up and take her for a walk by the pond to help her forget about The Painter. The ducks always cheer Maggie up. As does the flask Penelope will likely have tucked in the secret pocket of her dress. #thesecretlivesofpaintings ⠀
What is it about home that makes us look for it wherever we go? ⠀ ⠀ The word hotel originally referred to places that provided care for visitors, not accommodation. Maybe that's what draws us to stay in the homes of others (the ongoing brilliance of @airbnb ). We borrow spaces where we don't live but we could, to temporarily start over and create rest for our souls and adopt a way of living that is closer to what we want than what we have? ⠀ ⠀ Maybe they should be called hometels instead.⠀ ⠀ 📷 @ibizacampo plucked from @ibizainteriors ⠀
I'm currently reading a book about quantum physics and adventure through alternate realities that are and at the same time never were, which, of course, begs the age old question- if you were abducted from your life, would you ever be able to find your way back again? It is, at once, exploding my mind and making me homesick. ⠀ ⠀ 📷 plucked from @olssonjensen ⠀
Have you ever set out to repaint and then discovered some drywall that needs patching and then realized you've got mold and then decided, if you're ripping out that wall, you might as well move a few more to make the space more usable and then figured, while you're at it, why not just bulldoze the whole thing and start over from scratch? ⠀ ⠀ Well, if pushed to provide a figurative illustration of what the Pluck re-branding process has been like, that would be it. And, while I have felt a little insane about the whole thing, I am so excited about how it's shaping up. So different than what I thought when I first dreamed this all up. And also so much more aligned with what I actually want it to be. Getting closer to the big reveal, but in the meantime, here's a little moody board I put together for a jumping off point.
Oh how we love definitions. The way they articulate so poetically that which seems ordinary and common. Probably you didn't need a definition to know that @libertyforher is anything but common but just in case, here it is- laid out oh so beautifully. | THIS WEEK | If you're in LA, you can join Liberty Sessions at three different @wework locations for live conversations with the most amazing, creative, entrepreneurial women sharing their journeys and experiences. Our @tamicarey will be part of Tuesday's panel talking about running three businesses and what it means to live with pluck which, as it turns out, is a lot like living with liberty. Tickets are free and also priceless and also available at @libertyforher so go and then come!
Ok, you just stop it right now with your bad, ridiculously talented, selves @1767designs And you- @urbancowboybnb - you lucky, lucky devils. #whatthepluck #livewithpluck
A feed full of blooms and bouquets has got us dreaming about the places where those bundles are born. @swallowsanddamsons is one of our favorites and their shop may just be perfect in every way. If there wasn't a sea separating us, we would be there every week trading our paycheck for flowers and trying to sweet talk them into letting us move in.
Sometimes magic begins before the day does...#risebeforeshine #partywithpluck #eventdesign