One of my favorite poems, If by Rudyard Kipling, is a map for becoming an honorable human being. The poem defines guidance that a parent is meant to instill in their children. Though directed to the male this is sage advice to daughters as well as sons and the advice is even more relevant today. To all, Happy Father's Day!
"If" by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master, If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And – which is more – you'll be a Man, my son!
I haven't posted in a while and I am working to update this blog as much as possible. There is just one of me and the coding / scripting takes up way too much time. I definitely need to get organized and one thing that may help is th iGet Organized Challenge.
Unless fashion insiders should take themselves too seriously, leave it to clever comedians to keep things grounded. Sacha Baron Cohen as his alter ego Bruno interviews fashion industry professionals in this very funny video. From the out-of-left-field to the sublime – fashion covers these extremes! Cohen’s craft has a lot in common with Fashion. Fashion is often, imbued with an element of entertainment. And out of the chaotic jumble that artistic and creative efforts can be there is always the possibility that true sparks of originality and brilliance will result.
from wikipedia : Interviewees making outrageous statements
“Bruno often asks leading questions in an interview to set people up to make controversial responses. While it is humorous when they are so easily manipulated, it is often the case that it takes very little prompting to elicit their opinions, no matter how extreme.
Fashion is fun, perplexing, daring and human. Fashion is creative, right-brain, personal, conforming and rebellious. It can be any or all of these things. Fashion can be a a mood, a statement, a uniform to declare visually your point-of-view. It is eclectic or plain, daring or safe. At its best it is unpredictable, unexpected or a ‘breath of fresh air’.
Fashion is well thought-out and considered. Fashion is what you decide to wear on the spur-of-the-moment or an ensemble put together on a whim. Fashion is the most trivial, fleeting trend-of-this-week. Fashion is inspired art for the human form. Fashion is all these things and more. Fashion is above all human and as humans vary so do the reasons for the choice clothing worn by those who subconsciously or consciously and purposefully choose a style.
