A week from today I will be returning to university to teach my first class of the year. My summer break has been stimulating, inspiring, colorful and full of new experiences and people. I return with new perspectives, the realization of new possibilities and diverse new friends that add sparkle to the routine and rhythm of the everyday life of a university professor. I have learned more profoundly than ever before that taking risks, reaching for and grabbing the unfamiliar, and diving headfirst into sometimes anxiety producing experiences can turn what was a fairly ordinary life, into something extraordinary.
Fashion right now is like the sunburst on my sweatshirt; boundaries are fragmenting and so much is possible. Yesterday during a photo shoot that pushed limits in every possible way, it dawned on me that I am now part of the pushing. Somehow during all of the unique transactions I had this summer with make-up, clothes, gemstones, hair products, lingerie, music, ideas, people and spaces my identity has once again transformed and I enter into this semester as me/not me.
I come away with the belief that there is no reason to live a life of regret. Regret is a state of mind and therefore fluid and can be changed. There is no standard protocol or timetable of how and when we must live our life. We do not have to be linear about this life of ours. Now I am always in motion. I am always coming away from and coming into. Here I come to you with my face to the sun, ready and eager for what today will bring.
See my Wednesday Details for the story of the people, the ideas and the process behind the sweatshirt I am wearing in this photo.
How are you part of the “pushing” in fashion or how could you be?
Gorgeous as always!
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Loved wearing this and we did shoot in the early morning light.
You are a wonderful companion!
I am on the journey with you,Lyn.Pushing my own boundaries and trying to "seize" every day!
You are a wonderful companion!
Thanks for the encouragement!
Oh yes. You are definitely part of the pushing. Push away, my friend!
Thanks for the encouragement!
I am glad, I felt very centered writing it.
I really appreciate the spirit in this post.
I am glad, I felt very centered writing it.
A beautiful post and very inspiring. I am of the same mind, in that taking risks and pushing boundaries are life enhancing. I love following your journey!
And I love following yours and seeing all the risks you have been taking, you super model you!
Congratulations and isn’t it fun to have companions along on the journey?
A beautiful post and very inspiring. I am of the same mind, in that taking risks and pushing boundaries are life enhancing. I love following your journey!
And I love following yours and seeing all the risks you have been taking, you super model you!
As always, I love reading your posts, your writing style challenges me to improve my own writing. I too have had to put myself out there, take chances, grow, be very uncomfortable at times and slowly, often very slowly, I see change and feel that I’ve grown this past year. Have a wonderful semester!
Congratulations and isn’t it fun to have companions along on the journey?
So inspiring! I will add some spark in my life every day! Today I will give my smile to everyone!
A jewel of a gift!
Yes you need a stable core that gives the good foundation from which to improvise.
So inspiring! I will add some spark in my life every day! Today I will give my smile to everyone!
A jewel of a gift!
Keep on pushing all boundaries, Lyn! I devour all fashion magazines and browse and shop until I am happy I m pushing and moving forward – yet true to my own style. I do not believe you can legitimately push until you have a true personal style. Style is all about personal expression and should be fun and full of experimentation.
Yes you need a stable core that gives the good foundation from which to improvise.
You, and so many of the other women I’ve met in New York are continually pushing the boundaries of what women "of a certain age" look like, act like, and participate in society. Keep doing what you’re doing!
You, and so many of the other women I’ve met in New York are continually pushing the boundaries of what women "of a certain age" look like, act like, and participate in society. Keep doing what you’re doing!