Laura Christine Ó Donnell

✨🤍✨

Thanks for the chat. Great to learn more about your work and study. I imagine you have many stories. I have a good friend who is a filmmaker/producer and he always has great tales to tell. Another friend designed props/models for film. It is an interesting business with so many cool moving parts.

You were in nice places. I relate on mountains. I was in Chatsworth/Simi and then Valencia/Santa Clarita. Up north when it still wasn't much, running around when tumbleweed still rolled across your path with old dirt roads. I do best when removed a bit. Nice hiking trips for you for respite!

Thank you, Dave. We lost her quite quickly and I was far too young. It was big for me, rather traumatic; and it shifted my entire life— eventually. A lot to say there. I hear you on the traffic (me too), but with your filming hours it would be a lot. I do love the people and cultural variety.

I definitely had some dedicated years, but running is my lifelong favorite. That's good advice. Being in school cloistered me more with local schoolmates who dragged me around. 😂 That adrift description is also very apt. I imagine especially in that situation. It can be a tough business and place.

I love this with the shoes! Calls to mind a sappy poem I once wrote about it. Something like, "too many lonely faces and not enough feet touch the ground" The weather for bike I noticed most. Not so easy to ride in hard rain and all manner of inclement conditions. So a lot of indoor trainer rides. 😊

Wowza, this sounds amazing. What a cool experience that must have been, and for a favorite film. Sounds fabulous. Yes, she was from the area so always immersed in the biz. She went from belting out musical numbers at me to trying out her bits on me. Eventually she started to manage comedians, etc.

Buíochas leat, thanks to you! ☘️✨

Thank you, Michael! 🥰

💚🙏🏻✨

☺️🙏🏻✨

Thank you, Laura. ❤️ If you get that book or any of the other ones, I hope you will enjoy!

I agree, so much to learn there. Yes, I realized I had left out all the good parts! 🥰🤗

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (Official HD Video) YouTube video by CyndiLauperVEVO

Y para esta semana nostálgica, otro regalo de una canción sobre el Tiempo. 🎼🎶 Esta vez de una mujer de los 80. «Suitcase of memories», maleta de recuerdos. «Time After Time». Espero que lo disfrutéis. 💌💃🏻🥰🌹

Gracias de nuevo. ❤️ Palabras hermosas y cariñosas. Te deseo la belleza del momento, y todo irá bien. Un abrazo por una semana preciosa de momentos y recuerdos. 😘💌🎶✨

A Persian carpet designed by Mohammad Seirafian of the Seirafian carpet family. The carpet was processed in traditional methods, using exclusive designs. A large, circular geometric design is surrounded by a border of smaller oval and circular designs. The red, blue, purple, gold, green, and brown colors are achieved in traditional method using plant bark and leaves as color dyes. The rug is inscribed with the poem, "Bani Adam" from "Gulistan" (The Rose Garden) by the classical Persian poet, Sa'adi (Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī (1210 – 1292). In 2005, this Iranian rug was presented to the United Nations by the Islamic Republic of Iran, honoring “Dialogue among Civilizations” which began in 2001. The carpet hangs at the entrance of the United Nations building in New York City.

"Bani Adam"
by Saadi Shīrāzī
Trans., E. Eastwick

“All human beings are members of one frame,
Since all, at first, from the same essence came.
When time afflicts a limb with pain,
The other limbs cannot at rest remain.
If thou feel not for other's misery,
A human being is no name for thee.”

Also I like Rumi, Khalil Gibran, Hafez, and Saadi. Maybe you would too? I think I am inclined a lot to the poetry of mystics...

Oh, you are so right. I feel that nature is a gift to us; sacred, part of it all. That is how I experience it, and perhaps you would say you do too. There is so much love and beauty there that fills all the levels of us. A gift of pure medicine. 🌎💚 You may like Oliver's, "Devotions" 🤗

Oh, I had a feeling! Mon gentil ami, I have actually been wanting to ask you if you know him and what you think. 😊 I have not read Falling Upward yet but am familiar. What a nice retirement gift. I just got The Tears of Things, so I am looking forward to it. I enjoy him. He is also very funny!

It is a great sadness. I love what you said about her heart. Very poetic. 💚💙 I liked how the Indigenous grandmothers just treated her reaction as normal and just her unique constitution and gift. They said she experienced joy with just as much fullness, so that was a nice summary I had left out. 🥰

"[She] makes scent visible here. Rather than painting perfume bottles or an interior scene of adornment, she turns fragrance into atmosphere, rhythm, and symbol. The three women seem less like individuals than personifications, joined in a quiet ceremony of beauty, intimacy, and imagination." 💗

It suits my ethereal leanings... ✨

I understand! 😁 It just lifts right off the paper and comes alive to the senses. Or maybe we enter into it as well...I just love this one. 🥰

"[T]he work reflects [Donaldson's] commitment to a proudly Black, community-centered aesthetic that celebrated beauty, power, and African diasporic connection. Rather than placing women at the margins of revolution, he centers them as intellectual, spiritual, and political equals."

Beautiful and powerful ❤️

I agree, it's beautiful. And I'm about to do some reposting 🥰

How intriguing. This draws me to the search as well. It does seem like there is a lot to know about this...

❤️

❤️

a commute I did not love. But it was also when my mom got ill with other things for my family and so it wasn't a great time, which probably skewed it more. Did you like living there?