talent, communication, acceptance & shades of blue ~

crystal clear blue, turquoise, baby blue and all the possible shades one can find

captured in the sky and the sea,

are actually colors I grew up with, being born, raised and having lived for 33 years of my life

by the sea.

while strolling in the corridors of inspiring Internet places,

like Pinterest and favorite blogs,

I kept noticing that these past few days,

I'm drawn to these shades...

it must have all started with Desire (Dees) from Vosges Paris,

who has styled her freshly redesigned and renovated apartment with splashes of blue shades,

paired with an energizing green from plants, like aloe veras and cactus. 

The fact that she has spent time in Greece, visiting islands and in fact being totally in love with 

the whole story is manifesting in the effortless way she incorporates blue in her pretty city apartment in Amsterdam.

She currently has two places where blue flourishes in all its freshness:

her corridor, where the picture wall step by step and in time evolves around the poster from Santorini, admittedly one of the most magical places on earth...

and her entrance, where selectively cut images from magazines... 

and favorite magazines with accordingly colored covers, are resting as if nothing planned has happened...

The art of stylism has really been fascinating me since the very first decoration magazines,

which fell on my lap, already some 20 years ago 

(Gosh I shouldn't be mentioning things like that!)

and what has recently been fascinating me is that a lot, if probably not most of the

super talented stylists and interior designers are ones who haven't actually formally attended a relevant school, college or university.

Instead, the love for creating aesthetically beautiful environments is something that seems to have always been part of them, 

mostly being expressed in the way they bring together their own homes.

There are of course those who refine and evolve their talent by studying further.

Or ones who combined a natural inclination with studies.

Everything will do... but before all there seems to be a prerequisite:

talent.

I'd like to ramble a bit about its notion,

sharing some thoughts, while hearing from you,

that is if you actually have the patience and time to go through all this post!

a cup of tea + something nice to chew on are good companions ; )

So my dears,

talent seems in my eyes to be something very natural,

an inclination to something since the very early years,

something that one practices in his/ her life

with exactly the same enthusiasm whether financial profit is involved or not.

something that evolves with time, investing effort in practicing it,

something that sources from a very clear part of ourselves.

Talent is not a hobby, still one can practice his/ her talent as a hobby.

The happiest occasion occurs - both for the individual himself / herself and the community -

when people can support their lives practicing their talents.

Or when it is all right for them to perform another job they like, love or simply find beneficial enough,

while devoting their free time in their talent.

Talent is something that mostly makes others who encounter it feel at extreme ease,

rather than been just astonished,

something that provokes thinking as much as an instant celebration in one' s heart.

Talent can take countless forms!

                                             Talent is something much more common than rare,                                                                

         as there must be as many hidden talents in each and every person as there are people on earth.

Talent provokes admiration rather than envy,

and somehow enriches the lives of those who encounter it.

When talented people cross our lives it' s like a celebration,

one we feel part of without caring about our own current status quo.

Talent could be resembled with a stream of crystal clear water running down a natural source...

The matter seems to be: who is going to conform with his/ her natural inclinations...

who will invest his / her life in becoming the nicest oak tree 

he / she could ever be for example...

Modern societies could be suffering from too many problematic identity

cases, as so often beautiful lemon trees wish to have been born as let's say coconut trees,

and even worse, there is often time, effort and money invested in becoming something else.

I must make a "little" parenthesis here to refer to the by all means

super loving and caring Greek parent, who often "sacrifice" for their child

in order to send them to college, quite possibly also having picked the subject

or "kindly" reinforced a certain direction...

Seems that doctors, lawyers, professors of all kind and scientists

are all Greece needs...

one must wonder...

And I can't forget the years I was working with teenagers & children,

teaching English, while also applying my psychology insight...

Parents going crazy that their son was lazy and a "bad" student cause well,

grades in history and maths were rather horrible.

who cares if this person was already more grown up than expected in his teenage years,

 completely able of doing amazing handwork,

or show responsibility when working part time.

If only parents could keep a connection to their own childhood years,

rather than abruptly upgrade to an "adult",

how much more wonderful, trouble free and neurosis free this modern world would be?

{here comes the parenthesis closure btw}

Happiness and success are with hardly any doubt lying in:

- hard work, 

- planning, 

- decision and action.

Still it seems that for all those to come in a normal, non violent, long lasting and effective way,

there needs to be acceptance,

a deeply felt acceptance and digestion of one's past,

present and future aspirations.

A happy merge of them. A colorful salad,

where the dressing doesn't cover the ingredients' taste.

Purity. Clarity. Honesty. Vision. Love.

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well, there you go, after some time since {the last one},  a life awareness post has just been written,

one I' m sure I'll be wondering how it ever came to life and where did all these words come from.

I can thank the communicative power turquoise and shades of blue carry...

and remind myself of these absolutely beautiful creative moments in our 

previous home residence,

which is still so often getting asked to be published,

while it is expected to be in April's issue of Casa Facile.

{ a little preview + some lovely Italian... gossiping to read here ;) }

The beautiful picture opening this post is courtesy of Mindy Gayer

whose work I recently stumbled up on, only to fall in love...

with the work itself, the way it is presented & the kind, talented person behind it.

oh... not to forget, talent somehow also seems to carry an element of kindness

and certainty, a quiet strength in the most non aggressive ways...

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sprinkling some love to you, through the dance of these characters typed here

and wishing you one lovely day ahead!

lots in my plate, as you probably know, both in the positive + difficulty spectrum,

so I'd better proceed with the day.

which ever project mentioned here recently, might temporarily appear paused is only cause,

life is also about knowing when to recalculate, re access and act accordingly.

till next time,

good thoughts + much positive energy + above a little peek into the new studio and work being done there

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Credits 1st picture: Mindy Gayer, 2nd, 3rd, 4rth dyptich & 5th picture:  Desire for Vosges Paris + Ikea Family Live, 6th, 7th & 8th picture:  Iro - Ivy Nassopoulos