Velvet Verbosity

Softness delights and soothes me. Things that are soft.

• My daughter’s fingers dancing across my face when she is 10.
• My sea green cashmere t-shirt.
• The surface of a still pond.
• Kitten fur.
• A lover’s mouth.
• Waking up to Spring mornings.
• A newborn cry.
• The letter V.
• The soles of my feet.
• The Genuine Heart of Sadness

Painting by Robert Popick

“There is nothing more awkward or crude than a person absorbed in self-importance. And there is nothing more graceful and elegant than someone who is not.” — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

“Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Things that are Elegant…

* The hands of a lover…
* A string of pearls…
* Bare slender birch trees…
* The tall Dutch gardener carefully tending his plants…
* Fingertips…
* Fighting entropy…
* Water flowing down a gentle slope…
* Miss Ellie Rothman…
* Tea served in delicate china…

Please add your own list in the comments area…

Dear readers,This is Post III in the “Things That are…” series. It is meant to be a call and response. I do hope that you will add your own items to the list in the comments.

“If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is not befitting the human mind.” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Things that are…Simple Pleasures…

* Socks…of the cashmere, fuzzy, colorful or knee high variety…
* Hot tea with honey…
* Laughing…
* A favorite pair of jeans…
* Strangers smiling at one another…
* Hearing the first movement of water in the Spring…
* Cinnamon toast…
* Bare feet in cool grass…
* The delightful owners of my local market…
* Fresh warm strawberries straight off the vine after working in the sun…

Post II in the series, “Things that are…”. Please add to the list in the comments area.

“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” -Richard Bach

Things That are Lovely…

• Watching your children laugh…
• Answering the knock at the door and opening it to an unexpected visit from a dear friend…
• Sisters…
• The tiny fingers of a small child grasping yours…
• The scents in a chocolate shop…
• Reconnecting…

“Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Things that are Elegant…

* The hands of a lover…
* A string of pearls…
* Bare slender birch trees…
* The tall Dutch gardener carefully tending his plants…
* Fingertips…
* Fighting entropy…
* Water flowing down a gentle slope…
* Miss Ellie Rothman…
* Tea served in delicate china…

Please add your own list in the comments area…