Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Saint-Exupery

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You come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
-Sam Keen

Donna Karan has announced that all her Fall 2009 lines will be fur-free and that she has “no plans” to use fur in the future.

Karan’s turnaround came days after peta2 launched their online campaign and after Tim Gunn - Project Runway’s mega fashion guru – sent Karan and designer Giorgio Armani a video that he narrated for peta2 showing animals skinned alive for their fur and urged them to open their eyes to the violent and bloody fur industry.

While Donna Karan has followed in the footsteps of top designers – including Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, and Calvin Klein – Armani still refuses to stop using fur. Armani claims that he “only” uses fur from rabbits who are butchered for meat. We hope that you will take this opportunity to contact Armani to tell him that while the meat of gentle rabbits killed for their fur in China is sold to be eaten, the suffering that they endure is exactly the same.

The passage of time, coupled with an openness to the messages gleaned from our conversations with others, can provide answers we need for the way out of painful situations. Life is ebb and flow, peaks and valleys, struggles and sweet times. What we fail to realize, all too often, is that the struggles make possible the times that are sweet.

Our conflicts are our special lessons in life. We can learn to flow with them, move through them, trust their value to us as growing, changing people. How good it feels to have found security with one another and that power greater than ourselves who can, when we are willing, show us the path to resolution.

Life will never be free of conflict – nor should it be. Our lessons move us to higher planes of awareness. We can experience the joy hidden within the conflict. We can help one another remember that the sweetness of a moment is tied to the pain of a former, forgotten moment.

All events, all experiences, are connected. The path one travels, alone and with others, will bring brighter days. You must trust your path. It’s right for you.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

It is best to love wisely, no doubt;
but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Thackeray

Before the first model hit the runway, Luisa Beccaria sent out her young daughter and son, along with two other beautiful little kids, to scatter rose petals. Whether or not you appreciated the flower children is a good indicator of how you might feel about the collection itself: For some, Beccaria’s party dresses are the very essence of romance; for others, they’re just too sweet. But there’s no arguing that this was one of her most accomplished shows. It was cohesive, well-made (although she’ll have to address the sheerness issue before retail), and utterly charming.
Here’s some of our favorite looks from the show.

Romance is the glamour
which turns the dust of everyday life
into a golden haze.

Elynor Glyn

Exactly who started this season’s trends for transparency, pale color, and bouncy crinolined skirts, we may never know. All that’s certain is that it takes a practiced eye to handle all three of them at once—but if anyone can get away with it, it’s Karl Lagerfeld. On the Fendi runway, he made bell-shaped dresses—with their accompanying three levels of sheer fabric in the skirt—look molded in a graphic way, rather than ingenue-cute or dubiously sleazy (pitfalls that have been encountered by others who’ve gone the way of see-through).

With that, Lagerfeld established a modernist, cinch-waisted silhouette, further de-cloyed by up-sprouting quiffs, that ran throughout the collection—and he cleverly dispensed broderie anglaise, tablecloth lace, and laser cutouts as he went along. It made enough of a statement to carry the show, but, as always, the real news-making content was the shape of the Fendi bags. This season, it’s the “kangaroo pouch”—vaguely similar to the Hermès Birkin, but with one side draped open. (By Sarah Mower-Style.com

There is always some madness in love.

But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

IN THE PROCESS OF GROWING TO SPIRITUAL MATURITY, WE ALL GO THROUGH MANY ADOLESCENT STAGES

Acceptance of our past,
acceptance of the conditions presently in our lives
that we cannot change, brings relief.
It brings the peacefulness we so often,
so frantically seek.
We can put the past behind us.

Each day is a new beginning.