PERFECT Huckleberry

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

PERFECT Sense

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.
James Hillman

PERFECT James

To change one's life:
1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions.

William James

PERFECT Just Sayin ...

So, would you go to a dentist who has bad teeth? A skin doctor with acne? A psychiatrist in meltdown? Then why, women of a certain age, are you even considering buying Jane Fonda's new book? She might be a survivor but, hey girlfriend, she is no role model. We must separate the glitter from the gal - and see that beneath all her chatter, and there is a lot, is a fragile woman who has made a mess of marriages, children, aging (she's heading into some serious Faye Dunaway territory with the new face, new teeth, and poufy hair that if not a wig, should be) and career. She has a spanky body, to be sure, but doesn't it exhaust you - this struggle to look 5 years younger than you really are and find yourself a "boyfriend" (can we drop this turn when a woman reaches 60?) who is known for the women he dumped, odd looking creature that he is.

Turn away from this snake oil woman and walk in the direction of women of merit. Buy the Dame Judi Dench biography, the Diana Athill biography - listen at the feet of lusty women with age appropriate bodies who have real stories to tell, coming from lips untouched by filler.

I mean, come on.

PERFECT McQueen

This gold feathered coat from McQueen's last collection looks like an avenging angel, yes?

From a quote not long before he committed suicide:
"I’m 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I’m dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth."
Alexander McQueen

PERFECT Reminder

Mindfulness rocks!

Einstein said it but everyone should intuitively know it:
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy to truth.