October 2011
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March 2011
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“Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls,
all your waves and breakers...”
– Psalms 42:7
“IF YOU DO NOT STAND FOR SOMETHING, YOU WILL FALL FOR ANYTHING.”
August 2010
4 posts
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July 2010
7 posts
“As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart! You don’t know how lucky you...”
– The Wizard to TinMan, Wizard of Oz (via quote-book)
“I believe I Can, I believe I Will, I believe. I know my dreams are real.”
– Yolanda Adams, I Believe (Honey Soundtrack) | submitted by wallacex. (via quote-book)
“I’m not a box. There are more than four sides to me.”
– Kurt Hummel, Glee (via herbeatingheart) (via quote-book)
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I will not be fulfilled unless my purpose is...
Richard Witmer
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“Do not gratify the flesh, do not violate your...
SP Khong “Faith to Faith”
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“Whoever makes you angry, makes you cry, controls...
SP Khong “Faith to Faith”
March 2010
3 posts
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azienda agricola
[ah-DZYEHN-dah ah-GREE-koh-lah] Italian for “agrarian concern,”
azienda agricola is an Italian term for “wine estate.” It’s used in conjunction with the estate’s name on some Italian wine labels.
Azienda vinicola on a label refers to the winery, the place where the wine was actually made;
azienda vitivinicola to the concern that grew the grapes.
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Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes
“When I started living in Italy, my writing simply changed on its own. The prose came to me spontaneously. Yeats said that when he changed his syntax he changed his world. I changed my world, and my genre changed. I wanted to bring what I practiced as a poet into my new writing. Sometimes I’ve been criticized for a ‘poetic’ style. Well, that’s a...
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Proprietary Red Wines - Are they Superior to...
A mixture of varieties can often lead to better balanced or more interesting wines.
France did it from the beginning. They outlawed naming the grape varieties used for Appellation Contrôlée wines. All the major wines were named after the specific appellation—Gevrey Chambertin, Muscadet de Sevres et Maine, Château Margaux.
U.S. laws provide much more flexibility. A winery can name its wine in...
January 2010
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Tua Rita
Tua Rita, named after Rita Tua who bought the vineyards in 1984 with partner Virgilio Bisti, have managed to do spectacular things to the Italian wine landscape in a remarkably short space of time. The world famous, always Tre Bicchiere, and 100 Parker point awarded Redigaffi (100% Merlot) is something of an institution here in Italy held in huge esteem and traded for the GDPs of old soviet...
December 2009
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November 2009
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Shoebunny.com →
Celebrities Shoes
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Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain
“Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain (b. Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, May 18, 1914 – Paris, France, June 29, 1982) was a French fashion designer. Known for sophistication and elegance, he once said that “dressmaking is the architecture of movement.”
Shakira in Balmain Sandals
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Ann Demeulemeester
Ann Demeulemeester was born in Belgium, and graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp in 1981, along with contemporaries Dries Van Noten and Walter Van Beirendonck. Known as the “Antwerp Six”, this group of breakthrough designers went on to put Belgium firmly on the map for innovative design. Demeulemeester launched her own label in 1985 and showcased her womenswear collection in Paris...
October 2009
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“You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking...”
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“The March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it...”
– The Annotated Alice is a work by Martin Gardner
Say something ? Anything ?
“Peace is harmony.
Peace is intense life.
Peace is being equal to the problem....”
– Highways of the Heart by George H. Morrison
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
