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Some see beauty in the broken places…others make beauty from the broken places. There’s a famous technique in Japan known as kintsugi. Translated, it means “golden joinery” or “to patch with gold”. It’s a technique that stitches together broken pottery using gold applied with laquer on the broken places, enhancing the breaks. The technique is also […]

[D]iana Vreeland was many things — Editor-in-chief of Vogue, consultant at the Met’s famous Costume Institute, fashion icon, world traveler, columnist. But one thing that’s overlooked is her prolific way with words — the way she was able to command attention and respect by the way she talked and wrote to you. We can all […]

Ayn Rand was a novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. Born in Russia, she moved to America at the age of 26. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. In it, Rand advocated […]