Sprezzatura Beauty the late, great Natalie Wood

Gone but never forgotten.

LESSON: "I'd rather be a beggar and single, than a queen and married*."  --Queen Elizabeth I 
*Especially married twice to creepy douchebag Robert Wagner.  You were way out of his league, Ms. Wood.

The Show Must Go On...

LESSON:  ENTER ACTION WITH BOLDNESS
Timidity is dangerous:   Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.

"And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the middle of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together to the supper of the great God." --Revelation 19:17

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

LESSON: Look for everyday miracles. They're all around you.

At First Sight...the way Sprezzatura fall in love

LESSON: Easy peasy...a never fail formula...and it lasts forever.

Momento Mori

LESSON: Momento mori. If you expect nothing, you will never be disappointed.

Let your Life Speak

From p. 89: 

"In our fear of the natural chaos of life...many of us are devoted to eliminating...chaos from the world.  We want to organize and orchestrate things so thoroughly that messiness will never bubble up around us and threaten to overwhelm us (for 'messiness' read dissent, innovation, challenge, and change).  In families and churches and corporations, this shadow is projected as rigidity of rules and procedures, creating an ethos that is imprisoning rather than empowering." 

LESSON LEARNED:  Chaos is the precondition of creativity.

My book review can be found at:

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/50153.Simma_Down_Now_with_a_book_Summer_reading_program_2011_

E-readers violate the essence of Sprezzatura.



"This is why I will never own an E-Reader: because a row of books is more than a compendium of information. It’s a map of all the places your mind has been, a group of friends standing silently by to comfort you.”
 - The Executor by Jesse Kellerman

LESSON:  Oh to have a book, tucked into this cozy nook...There is NO joy in a Nook.