We talked last Monday about classic style. Yet we just scratched the surface. Let's pick up again with classical design. A friend of mine wrote a book about the physical response you get from seeing beauty, “Feeling Beauty”, by Gabrielle Starr Harpole. While I can't do justice to paraphrasing the neuroscience she lays out in exquisite detail, I do intimately know the physical feeling she's describing. You walk into a magnificent building or a beautiful room, and your involuntary response seizes control - you take a pause, an audible deep breath, then emit a sigh, while a smile takes form.
One of my favorite spaces in Washington is the National Building Museum. I get that pause/big inhale/sigh/smile every time I walk in. READ MORE
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Be Bold 2/19/24
In December of 2022, I was sitting around the fire before dinner with a glass of wine, my husband, and a good friend who was visiting us. She (my friend, not the wine) said, "I'm going to Rome next month. You ought to come with us." I thought, "oh, there's no way I could possibly go to Rome next month". And then
"But what if I said yes?" In fact, I did. The trip wasn't a super luxe trip, and January is a wonderful time to travel to Europe because no one else thinks so. (It rained a lot and we even saw snowflakes, which is virtually unheard of in Rome.) And it became one of my favorite trips ever. READ MORE
"But what if I said yes?" In fact, I did. The trip wasn't a super luxe trip, and January is a wonderful time to travel to Europe because no one else thinks so. (It rained a lot and we even saw snowflakes, which is virtually unheard of in Rome.) And it became one of my favorite trips ever. READ MORE