Make me a record

Our chuppah, hand-sewn by me and my tasslemaster, gently waiting to be raised on Sunday.

cloud-building

Harf Zimmerman

Come home, love,/I want to thumb your pages/one at a time. -"Night Reading" by Sally Ashton

Elizabeth Taylor, 27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011.

Beautiful spitfire, you will live on in deeds and work.

The slow reveal

Heroïna Romanticam Dolorosa

Can we reconvene when I am married? I commit to him, I commit to you. I will visit, between now and then, because I need to. The usual coffee and you routine is my sunshine and diamond stamen.

Sketch

The more it changes, and it how it does change, this stays the same.

"Beware the ides of March."

Jezebel graveyard, Jezebel festival? Depends. Did Edward borrow your rose-colored lenses?

Sugar moon, sap moon: beware Mars today. Do not be irritating.

(2010)

JAPAN

spectacle bridge of Otani at Kyoto

I think of you, Japan. So small and paltry and mean a thing, thinking, and really of no help at all. Why this hiss, this roar, this rumble from the belly of the earth? What for? When the wind blows hard, the order we've built crumbles to the floor. Look how much we have made! None of this existed. We live in two worlds: that which is, that which we create.

Fly with me

Alexander McQueen fall 2011

We are going to scheme again, together, the tap tap tap every morning, and the luxurious sip from grandmother china and saucers, those, I've never had those before. There has been a space invasion, and a pile of lace waiting to be sewn, I wake early and I think: for there to be change, there must be a change.

Little fish, big fish.

bronze butterfly necklace by Jezebel, $220

It showered yesterday; rain, love, lingerie, swan cream puffs, aunties, cousins, childhood dreamtime, mothers, daughters.

The newest piece in my collection is cast from my grandmother's brooch. As I've told you before, and I'll tell you again, I am an only daughter's only daughter.

One Month

Candice Bergen at Capote's black-and-white ball

I smile on the inside, too.

Night of Joy

Rene Gruau

In the mailbox, little pale pink postcards say, "Yes!". The pile grows, warmth ensues.

In the event you are a billionaire's baby, born in March

David Webb aquamarine and black enamel earrings, $39,000

Tony Duquette aquamarine ring, $26,000

aquamarine and pistachio pearl ear clips, $7400

Elizabeth Gage 18k and aquamarine ring, $4000

I've picked out some jewels for you from 1st Dibs, featuring your birthstone, the aquamarine. Let me know which one you get.