DISILLUSION- illusion, delusion, and dreams and should never come true....

“His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

hmmm....amid mermaids and heroes, pumpkins and monkeys, reason and passion, and all the shades of both cool and warm greys between (and those are myriad) such entities..or ideas...lies a basic meaninglessness. 

harrummmmphh......my sage thought of the week.....
------sds

TUMBLR

hey..im on tumblr...
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Thinking in pictures-- August 3, 2013

CBK Style fourteen years ago today...7-16-1999

 On July 16, 1999, we lost our American Prince and his stylish, iconic wife....a small tribute to them.....

Rest In Peace, Carolyn and John

OUR 'ALL AMERICAN' STYLE ICONS....PATRIOTIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF AMERICAN STYLE

      Fourth of July is upon us...in honor of AMERICAN STYLE, I will post about American style icons this week... there are so many, but today I will focus on : BABE PALEY .
Bio of  BABE....
.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Paley   Wiki posts a brief wrap up of her life, for those of you who are not familiar with her. To read about her Fifth ave home, the WSJ published a great article, linked here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304636404577299831059349576.html

   This is merely a doodle from my sketch pad, below:

This, to the right, is a superior and masterful illustration by the late Kenneth Paul Block

•  Here is an article from ALLURE Magazine,