Welcome to August in Love Note land.  You can rest assured that here, we are still in high summer mode - corduroy and chocolate brown be damned.  Fall will not appear on these proverbial pages until the thermometer drops significantly and the sun moves west in the late afternoon sky.    

Today we're going retro.  If you're reading this on your phone, the top of the header image actually says V O G U E (not O G U).  I couldn't figure out how to fix that, so let's just say my techy skills are going retro as well.

Come with me back a few decades, to when French Vogue was 500 francs.  Do you remember packing your beach tote with a stack of fabulous magazines, a few cold drinks (Tab, anyone?),  a bit of needlepoint and a good book?   I bet you can close your eyes and conjure the scent of Sea & Ski.  Or maybe you were a baby oil and tin foil reflector kind of girl?    READ MORE

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Truth be told, I was hoping to get a regular note pulled together for this morning.  And then ...  I was listening to Andy - my favorite meditation guide on Headspace - and he was talking about travel time, and he suggested, as if speaking to me personally, that while on vacation one should "Slow down and enjoy the space you have created".  Message received.

Here's just a teensy bit of what's floating around in my headspace this week.  READ MORE

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I brought a linen cotton scarf of my own design (more on that below) with me to France, along with a favorite ancient Hermès silk scarf covered in 12 meter yachts, and they were both such perfect travel companions that they gave me the idea for today's note.

There's so much good stuff to work with here:

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails."   Author Unknown    READ MORE

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