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Don’t fall in love in airports

At least not til you’ve boarded the plane

At least not til you’ve entered the gate

At least wait - 

Oh, there she goes again.

Strangers are romantic

It’s true what they say 

But strangers are never as desirable as you might think them to be

And the ones that are, it turns out

Are never strangers anyway

[Jean Campbell for Vogue Russia]

CXXVI

19/01: Here I am, all of twenty-three, and I have made peace with silence. Peace with solitude. Peace with uncertain futures and with the creative frustration on the inside of me. Perhaps not all so fully, but I am well on the road to peace (there is no destination, peace is a road, is a river) and that's a far better place than where I once was.

All these demons of youth - those that make us long for places we are not, and people we've never met, and things we know, deep down, we'll never do (but why not) - they are all gone. Perhaps only their shadow crosses my front porch on very bad days, but otherwise, gone. If only I had known that all this too shall pass (though i think i really did know).

Oh life. Oh difficult, long drawn life. The hellish musings of youth only to give way to the damned knowing of age. I say I'm twenty-three, perhaps I know nothing of these things yet. I probably don't.

[Image: Anna Ewers for Vogue Paris]

CXVII

In life there are no hand outs. You get to high places when you do hard work. Even when it looks like they took a shortcut, they didn't, even when it seems that they had a free ride, they didn't, and even when they made it all look so easy, it wasn't. Learning this is one of the greatest let downs and biggest encouragements you can find. That life can look easy and be hard all at once, do you get that? Bums on seats, feet on pavement, pens on paper, fingers on the pulse. No one gets to be where they are without positioning and purpose. So why would you? And that one time it seems as if someone's beaten the system? Take stock of all the lessons you've learnt and ask yourself, would you want to?

XVIII

"The more digitally dependant we become - and today we really are, we like to press buttons - I think the more craftsmanship is celebrated."

"Imagination and problem solving are a really big part of great work, there are no great artists who don't solve problems. Often it just comes down to finding the most beautiful solution."

- Heidi Moore-Gill, Vogue Australia Oct 2013

The most editorially enthralling issue with such on-point content I've had the pleasure of devouring in a long long while.
Cheers, VOGUE
- S

(Images: Fashion Gone Rogue)