Summer Sidewalk Sale, Stay-cations & a fresh batch of Sircuit Skin just arrived.

Come on down Friday & Saturday, July 16-17th from 12-4pm and take advantage of our Sidewalk Sale deals & have some lemonade. Now, that's Summer in a glass.

Spending some time poolside? Your skin needs extra TLC.

If you're needing products or services, now is the time. Just arrived! A fresh batch of Sircuit Skin. You need some. And why not take a few minutes to relax, repair & rejuvenate with a Skin Spa & Massage treatment? It's a little stay-cation.

Speaking of vacations, please notice:
Melissa will be gone from July 24 - August 5 & Amy will be gone August 5-7. Call us soon (or stop by) to schedule.

Summer, Summer, Summertime. Get on down here for deals! Like what, you ask?

All Project Alabama is now 50% off original prices. Organic cotton & bamboo fabrics naturally colored in vegetable dyes. Fashion forward pieces like this one shoulder dress.

25% off rings by J. Fein Design. Sustainable wood bases topped with vintage baubles makes each one unique. Your finger wants one.

Hand blown glass floats from a guy named Zeus. Lovely light catchers at $20 a pop.

The last handmade Jess B. ragdoll looking for a loving home. Little vintage chair included.

Only 2 silk ikat pillows from Sheherazade New York left. 

And there's more...

The latest items to enjoy this month are:

Feather + stone earrings.

We have a small selection of new earrings from Demimonde. They're light & lovely and won't bring you down in the heat of Summer. Come choose a pair.

Natural beauties.

Summer is here and to me that means longer days that are hopefully filled with some lazy time in the shade, book in hand. Of course, I love a good novel but it's also great to wind your way through a collection of poetry. I have my favorites including Pablo Neruda and Rainier Maria Rilke. Right now, I'm reading The Grace of Necessity by Samuel Green, borrowed from my friend Stephanie. I also like the work of Japanese haiku masters Matsu Basho and Oshima Ryota. One of the interesting things about haiku to me is painting the picture within the contraints of structure. Traditionally, a haiku is a 3 line poem of 17 syllables or Japanese onji. The first and third lines consisting of 5 onji each. The form is short so that it may be read in one breath, expressing the idea of the moment's immediacy in one exhalation. A haiku should bring the reader directly to the experience of sharing an ordinary moment, presenting the whole of life in that one event. One of Ryota's:

All the rains of June
and one evening secretly
through the pines the moon

Then there's American haiku. Its development was shaped by Beat poets like Allan Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac. Kerouac discovered haiku when he began studying Buddhism through his friend and Zen poet, Gary Snyder. Just as he changed the standards of prose, Kerouac reworked the definition of the haiku form. He believed that Western haiku need not be 17 syllables. In his Scattered Poems collection he wrote, "I propose that Western haiku simply say a lot in three short lines in any Western language. Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastorella." In The Dharma Bums, he writes that "A real haiku's got to be as simple as porridge and yet make you see the real thing." Perhaps one of Kerouac's best and most well known:

Missing a kick
at the icebox door
It closed anyway

Photo taken with my Hipstamatic app for iPhone. Happy Summer reading...

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