7.12.10

handle














sow




















paint






Every day you may make progress.
Every step may be fruitful. Yet
there will stretch out before you
an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending,
ever-improving path. You know you
will never get to the end of the journey.
But this, so far from discouraging,
only adds to the joy and the glory of the climb.

winston churchill


















6.12.10

5.12.10

so we very quickly learned to be absolutely quiet about it


"Since people didn't deal with children and things like that,
it would have been considered a nonsubject or a silly one.
And at the time, when we said we studied nursery rhymes,
we were considered an oddity. So we very quickly learned
to keep absolutely quiet about it. Also, had we been to
university, we would have realized that everybody knew
so much, but because we didn't know what was and wasn't
permissible and possible, we just went forward. (Iona
learned German and Italian in order to work on our books.)
And, equally, we were not only enthusiastic but also self-
critical; we went on criticizing ourselves until we felt that
there couldn't be much wrong with what we were doing."














images:
m. goose 1691, rare book buyer
alphabet, sc libraries
& street football, gubog

transport














focus


"...it's a daily task:
Focus on the good and the things you can change/improve in your life.
Appreciate what you have and surround yourself with good people.
Live in the moment."

via two favorites (together):










photo via another favorite:
little augury (whom i believe lives by the motto above)








+ another bday shout-out to my beloved [favorite] sister,
who's taught me worlds about these very concepts. xox.


3.12.10

happy, happy days







wishing a most joyful weekend
to both of our sweet birthday girls
(and everyone who wanders by the
little blog for the next few days)















more carter berg


because i thought you needed to see this


really












photos: carter berg


mary randolph carter

su wu: guest curator






su wu
















le wo and we














and here





"make something with your hands, pure of heart"








a fair at the beach.
go, see beth's magic











highly recommended gifts

yes



i wish i had gotten there quick enough
to get a little one at least. oh well. here.















(happy update: snow melted servers.
& now they're back up. want? here)






highly recommended gifts

imperfect postcards V

a little christmas from mary randolph carter:

"Last Christmas day my sister Nell and I dragged in this long weather-worn trestle table from outside and set it up in the front hall of Muskettoe Pointe Farm. There would be forty of us for our sit-down holiday dinner, so it was a last-minute solution! My father had built it and another years ago for one of our weddings. Mother said no one would sit there because it was off the beaten track, i.e. not in the main dining room near the tree and open fire. Her instincts are usually right, but not that night. It was the most popular seat in the house. I think because it was something new and totally improvised. A few hours before dinner began, my son Carter caught the imperfect table perfectly!"




















2.12.10

carter berg: collection

















annual reminder: shop



scintillating ancient industries



















imperfect postcards IV


"This photo of my Mother and Father was taken in the sixties by a good friend who would often visit Muskettoe Pointe Farm, our home in Virginia. It is the most romantic image of them caught in the fields beyond our house. They were in love from the time they were 12 years old."














And how can you say I love you to someone you love?





please see



+














latecomer


entering into silence enables us
to enter into stillness...if
[getting things done, which is important]
is all we do, then we really are
living one-dimensional lives.
we're living on the surface.

















image: lithesome toast








the landscape of our heart


















image: the Most Excellent tea and cactus




1.12.10

imperfect postcards [and splendid lovely style court]

from mary randolph carter:

"This pic from the book (page 213) was taken by my son Carter Berg in his blue Ford pick-up that he lets me borrow to go junking. From the looks of it and the smile on my face it was a successful hunt! I am wearing my favorite old torn-up black and blue checked flannel quilted work shirt that I bought over twenty years ago in a local work wear kind of store. It's so comfortable and comforting."














[there's a truly wonderful post
at style court today. courtney
has chronicled mary randolph
carter's holiday workshop, here.
imperfectly magnificent holiday fun.
style court's earlier & equally
superb post is here.
a pure delight!
vt]










foster and edge

















please




















imperfect postcards from mary randolph carter (a series)

"An old windup clock
that has sat on my desk
in NYC for years and years.
It's never ticked a tock!
(note the dust!)"

hiroko kurihara


blanket shares project
& an event on 12.3.2010