Have a happy weekend!

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WI$H LI$T

My birthday was this week if anyone would like to give me a belated present! jk that makes me feel gross.

“Don’t save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion.”

—	Thomas S. Monson

The Pleasure of His Company (1961)

In honor of Mother's Day here are some standout and iconic movie moms:

1. Doris Day in My Dream Is Yours. Because Doris just seems like America's mom.

2. Maureen O'Hara in The Parent Trap. One of my personal Favorites.

3. Lana Turner and Juanita Moore in Imitation of Life.

4. Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce. I restrained myself from Mommy Dearest.

5. Anne Bancroft in The Graduate. I never said they were all aspirational!

6. Barbara Stanwyck in Stella Dallas. A tearjerker. 

Anais Nin has been "mentoring" me lately.

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“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” 

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” 

“It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” 

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.” 
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

She's a good one.

A little bit of loveliness...

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