Perla

Perla Black Label

Such renowned Perla luxury. Aside from the painfully skinny model I’m loving that lush purple tint which completes the black label look. Oh, the new Perla site is a dream, featuring a 1920’s art direction for this season. Hmmm! Back to reality, David Hume’s Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, include:

“Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.”

Within reason. I would argue certain beauty requires zero contemplation. It just is (example: Campagnolo)

The Warrior

Can scarcely tell a scarlet tanager from Scarlett O’Hara, but The Life of the Skies had me transfixed from the first page. Jonathan Rosen writes with astounding insight, wit, and compassion. The story he tells here is the best kind of odyssey, an outward journey that ends up highlighting the beauty and daring that live inside of us. Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament – pick up The Warrior and read it right away. Fran Richey has written some of the most powerful stories I’ve ever encountered. It is obvious that her life was changed by living these poems; yours may well be changed by reading them.