C'on Archimedes, live a little.........!

Say what you will about levers, there's a lot more than moving the earth.
There are souls to heal.
Souls to recognize.
Souls to be liberated.

Pearl says, give me bungee cords long enough, strong enough and make them blue, and I can secure the world.

Throw in kindness, intelligence & laughter and we have a deal.

If firefly martinis were included, it wouldn't hurt.

A miniature golden doodle would be nice.

Bubble baths for two would not be a deal-breaker.

Holding hands at midnight 'neath a starry sky?

I'm yours.

What Does Your Joy Battery* Look Like?

Joy battery. Lori Ellison, über-talented NY artist, posted on Facebook this morning that she has "a joy battery that keeps her going."And that got us to thinking: a joy battery is a necessity. Non-stop joy is unrealistic but the access to joy should be 24/7. That is, as adults, or at a certain point in our lives, we should know how, have the tools, to create joy for ourselves. Unless you're one of those phlegmatic types for whom it makes uncomfortable. So be it. Go for it. But we digress.

After writing about gold lamé last week, and only owning two thin belts made of the material, we decided a larger gold lamé objêt was necessary because if a tiny thin belt made us smile, think of the potential of a bigger dose...... and voilà! Feast your eyes (sunglasses might be required) on this....

Today's the first day we carried it (and that was *before* reading Lori's post). Plus it's a cold rainy spring morning.

The p/e is ridiculously high.



*coined by artist Lori Ellison

The Samé is Not Lamé

Would it surprise you to learn gold lamé is inspired by Medieval cloth of the real stuff? Probably not. It's come a long way from clothing Jewish high priests in ephods. Not to mention, fencer's jackets. 

When you wear gold lamé (not silver, copper or bronze), do you feel differently? And we're assuming you do wear it or you wouldn't have read this far. If it doesn't make you feel differently, why bother? And since it does, how would you describe it? 

Pearl has a hunch it makes us feel differently not because of Elvis. But because of our hard-wiring back to the Middle Ages. Our bodies know lamé isn't real gold but our minds, ahh our minds, have a faint memory of this fine cloth unlike any other.

And that is to what we are responding.

And if a shiny polyester fabric with a metallic sheen the color of sunlight brings something back, is that so terrible?

Are We Roaring Yet?*

International Women's Day was first observed in the US in 1909, according to http://www.internationalwomen'sday.org , after the NYC march the previous year by those who thought they should get equal pay for equal work.

Unlike Mother's Day, the day was not meant to drive Hallmark greeting card sales but presumably do something more.

More of what probably depends on your POV.

If you observe International Women's Day and month, is it because you feel strongly about:

Equal pay?

Freedom of choice over your body?

Greater representation in government?

While not getting involved politically in today's and this month's activities other than this post, Pearl does feel strongly about the issue of female body image, having spent her adolescence pudgy. Instead, we'll let the Divine Miss M explain it all for you in the video below:

http://www.magisto.com/video/L1EWIlkVQmspQQZgCzE

*http://youtu.be/MUBnxqEVKlk

There's a Fourth Wall?

About how many can be said cause us to 'lose consciousness' from laughter?

That is how New Yorker writer John Lahr describes below the effect of Dame Edna on him. 

And it is the same for me. Dame Edna is my patron saint. She, the giver of laughs, with her sardonic smile and wicked sense of humor, first imprinted my consciousnessness a mere eight years ago. It was the appearance of Jerry Hall in an identically matching dress on Dame Edna's talk show that caused the first loss of consciousness.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j327xDa-Txo

Sadly, Dame Edna (Barry Humphries) has begun her farewell tour at the London Palladium......but maybe it will be like Barbra Streisand's farewell tours, of which there have been several.

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/12/dame-ednas-eat-pray-laugh-reviewed.html

It's been a busy week here..........

...........at Pearl.

Magisto, the fabulous app for making music videos, featured us on their blog.

http://blog.magisto.com/2013/11/21/creativity-magisto/

What an honor.

Pearl would not be who she is today without www.magisto.com.

@Magisto gave us the courage to develop ourself [sic] a little further, one video at a time......

http://www.magisto.com/album/cH14BA0AQAkOdXwA

Who knows where it will lead???

All the World's a Stage*

If you think you've never auditioned for anything--think again.

You may not be an actor, or even a belter (that's code for Ethel Merman), but trust me, you've auditioned. Shakespeare called it. (see above).

A job audition? It's called an interview. 

A life partner audition? It's called a date.
A friendship audition? It's called playing.

Did you get the part you wanted? 

I hope so.

If not, try, try again.

Like how to get to Carnegie Hall.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202207948107157

*As You Like It A2S7