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My life, as Amelia Edwards once said, is the "satisfaction of a purposeless curiosity."

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WHY DON’T YOU? #195

February 4, 2019by Benjamin Phillips Leave a comment

Monday: Why don’t you spend the entire week in bed under a heated blanked since the polar vortex is descending once again? The windchill is supposed to be a balmy […]

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advice, Diana Vreeland, dreams, fashion, inspiration, Paris, shopping, suggestion, weather, Why Don't You?

WHY DON’T YOU #187

October 22, 2018by Benjamin Phillips Leave a comment

  Monday: Why don’t you start a dream journal? In my early 20s, I’d scribble out my dreams each morning with more dedication than I’ve ever shown to anything before […]

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advice, Diana Vreeland, dreams, election, fitness, health, inspiration, suggestion, travel, Why Don't You?

Why Don’t You? #135

March 20, 2017by Benjamin Phillips Leave a comment

Monday: Why don’t you slather yourself in coconut oil, turn on the fireplace, and sleep for fourteen hours? Everybody needs pampered once in awhile. So, save yourself some coins and […]

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advice, Diana Vreeland, dreams, food, inspiration, restaurant, suggestion, Why Don't You?

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"If you don't do it, you won't have done it." --Patsy Stone

"Things are fine, and life is fine. And life is so much fun. It’s one big movie." --Joan Rivers

"Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful — a mélange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?" --Diana Vreeland

“My only ambition in life is to wear size 28 jeans.” --Karl Lagerfeld

"Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed; remember you can go anywhere." --Joanna Lumley

"Only the shallow know themselves." --Oscar Wilde

"I know of a cure for everything: salt water--sweat, or tears, or the salt sea." --Isak Dinesen

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