Yay New York Tote Bags!

Oh, the marriage equality totes are here, and they are awesome. I’ve been carrying mine around since Monday, and it’s kind of my favorite new thing. And they are selling out super quickly, so get yours while the getting is good. shop here.

photo of Meg & me sitting at a bar in fancy shoes: Emily Takes Photos

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teach them to long

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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books I’ve read lately – July 2011

  1. Heartburn by Nora Ephron. Darling, smart, funny, quick read. A perfect intelligent beach vacation book. “(…That’s how bourgeois I am: at the split second I picked up the pie to throw it at Mark, at the split second I was about to do the bravest – albeit the more derivative- thing I had ever done in my life, I thought to myself: Thank God the floor is linoleum and can be wiped up.)”
  2. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller. This book is very male (and no, I’m not sure what I mean by that) and very inspirational, which is, well, usually not my bag. But, it somehow was really lovely, generally not hokey, and I found myself highlighting heavily while reading it. “I don’t know why we need stories, but we always have. I’d say it’s just that we like them, that they’re entertaining, but it’s more than that. It’s a thing in us that empties like a stomach, and then needs to be filled again.”
  3. Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness by Dominique Browning. Captivating memoir about how to make life lovely when things don’t end up at all the way you planned. “I have just begun to accept the relentless flux that is the condition of my life, of all our lives. Not young, not old; not betrothed, not alone; thinking back, looking forward; not broken, not quite whole anymore, either. But Present.”
  4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. This was probably the seventh time I’ve read this book (I’m a big re-reader.) This book changed my life when I first read it, and was a huge influence on me from the ages of 17-19 years old, and to a lesser degree through my early twenties. And 17-19 will always be some of my favorite years of my life – not the best years, but some of my favorite. And so I still love this book deeply, because reading it reminds me of that former version of myself.
  5. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. I saw Patchett read while she was on tour for this book, and she made a comment that she thinks she writes the same book over and over again, with different characters and different settings. This is not untrue. It also doesn’t stop every book of hers from being wonderful.
  6. Gimme Shelter by Mary Elizabeth Williams. I have to say, I found Williams pretty annoying through the first third of the book, and this certainly is not something you should read if you ever want to buy real estate in New York City, as it makes it sound about as appealing as eating raw potatoes. But I ended up liking it more than I thought I would, and Williams ends up being semi-likeable enough that I couldn’t help but root for her.
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Yay New York! tickets

tickets for Yay New York! are now on sale! Click here to buy yours before they’re gone!

Also – we announced our couples this morning, and could not be more excited about them. Yay Leanne & Anne and Aaron & Cory!

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back from workcation

Things have been crazy lately – I’m getting ready for a SUPER busy August and September, as well as for Yay New York!, tickets to which are going on sale tomorrow! But I got to spend last week working from the beach, which was as much of a vacation as I’m going to get until late fall, and was exactly what I needed. Workcation for the win, I suppose. Some other things on my mind:

 

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Yay New York!

We’ve announced some more details about Yay New York!

And there are many more exciting ones to come in the next few weeks. Stay tuned…

 

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delicious ambiguity

“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.”

-Gilda Radner

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Five Marriages + One Universal Right

Just a quick note to say – we’ve started taking applications for “Five Marriages + One Universal Right” Yay!

Head on over to A Practical Wedding to apply!

logo by the super fantastic Kathleen of Jeremy and Kathleen

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maxi dress

I’m a big fan of maxi dresses, and all of my current favorites are now several years old and wearing out. I’m liking the backs of both of these dresses from J. Crew:

left: Doria Dress right: Summerstock maxidress

In general, I find J. Crew clothes to be overpriced for their overall quality, and these most likely wouldn’t be exceptions, but it’s also shockingly hard to find simple clothes, and sometimes it’s worth paying more for something that you will wear until it fall apart (assuming that won’t happen after 3 washes.)

images: J. Crew

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Do All the Good That You Can

I love this photo by Christina Richards, and am pretty sure that a print of it is going to have to make its way into my collection at some point:

The sign above the door reads: “Do all the good that you can/to all the people you can/in every way you can/as long as you can”

yes.

image: Christina Richards, via L Bascom Gallery

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