HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Our flagship Los Olivos Boutique turns 3.. We love the way back journeys, and here’s another. The “Before and After” story of our Waxing Poetic Boutique in Los Olivos, California (which experienced...
View ArticleWaxing Poetic Muse of the Moment: Patti Smith
Style and Substance and Stubbornness and STRAIGHT UP ROCK AND ROLL (and poems, always poems, and performance, and love, and all of that, and an uncanny and uncommon capacity to forgive and transform...
View ArticleFresh and Local: Farmer’s Market Poetry in the Making
Sometimes, a trip to the farmer’s market results in organic veggies, and sometimes, one is sidetracked by something random and strange, and lovely (the sidetracked one in this case is our own Jessica,...
View ArticleWAXING POETIC HEROS: Granite Mountain Hotshots
When we first saw the news about the devastating Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona at the end of June, we were horrified/amazed/overwhelmed/etc., but it was still ‘just’ a news story – the ‘just’ in here...
View ArticleA Mother’s Blessing
Mother, Mom, Mommy, Ma, Mama, Momma, Mami, Mimi – this is for you who Held our hands, kissed our knees, straightened our stances, and showed us the world One marvel at a time — read us stories, taught...
View ArticleGuided by Wishes
to be remembered to be loved to be cheered to be gracious to be grateful to be inspired to be determined to be stronger to be brighter to be bolder to be truer to be held to be cherished and to...
View ArticleHappy 4th of July!
4 things to be thankful for this 4th of July 1. Family, whether near or far, here or not here, we are thankful for them all. 2. Time. In the sense of taking it. Enjoying the moments and reveling in...
View ArticleThe Mother’s Prayer for her Daughter by Tina Fey
One of Patti’s friends sent this hilarious poem by Tina Fey to her a few years ago, and it resurfaced just in time for Mother’s Day. Enjoy and SMILE in thanks for the wonderful humor in motherhood (and...
View ArticleThe Convergence Ring
The Convergence Ring inspired by Convergence by Jas per Johns “Arrangements always communicate something. In other words, anarrangement of things is not just an aesthetic expression; it is a...
View ArticleRemember this:
Alphabets are comforting. Accidents are often angels. Nothing loved is ever lost. Tweet This Post
View ArticleSomewhere Uncommon
Find secret histories through sidestreets and footnotes The littler pieces, Bright and tiny a minute menagerie instead of chorus> Finding doesn’t always happen by searching. Instead, sometimes...
View ArticleHappy 4th of July!
4 things to be thankful for this 4th of July 1. Family, whether near or far, here or not here, we are thankful for them all. 2. Time. In the sense of taking it. Enjoying the moments and reveling in...
View ArticleThe Mother’s Prayer for her Daughter by Tina Fey
One of Patti’s friends sent this hilarious poem by Tina Fey to her a few years ago, and it resurfaced just in time for Mother’s Day. Enjoy and SMILE in thanks for the wonderful humor in motherhood (and...
View ArticleThe Convergence Ring
The Convergence Ring inspired by Convergence by Jas per Johns “Arrangements always communicate something. In other words, anarrangement of things is not just an aesthetic expression; it is a...
View ArticleRemember this:
Alphabets are comforting. Accidents are often angels. Nothing loved is ever lost.
View ArticleSomewhere Uncommon
Find secret histories through sidestreets and footnotes The littler pieces, Bright and tiny a minute menagerie instead of chorus> Finding doesn’t always happen by searching. Instead, sometimes...
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