Things that are... | velvetverbosity.com https://velvetverbosity.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 28 May 2019 09:28:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 194740957 Things That are Elegant https://velvetverbosity.com/2020/01/31/archives-things-that-are-elegant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=archives-things-that-are-elegant Fri, 31 Jan 2020 09:28:05 +0000 http://velvetverbosity.com/?p=277 “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… Continue Reading Things That are Elegant

The post Things That are Elegant first appeared on velvetverbosity.com.]]> “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…

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The post Things That are…Simple Pleasures first appeared on velvetverbosity.com.]]> 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…

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