More Dancing, Less Typing (For a Minute)

It's about that time-- the second annual Lux Lotus Summer Vacation! I'm not actually going anywhere*, as you know, but I need to focus on a few work-y things and well, when I'm not at my desk I really ought to go and have some adventures that I can come back and tell you about.

My plan is to crush it on the professional front for the next 2-3 weeks (out 7/19: Trudy Hopedale by Jeffrey Frank, a senior editor at The New Yorker -- an elegant, slim little thing about the desire for power and how it corrupts. Both sweet and vicious, as well as v.v. funny, it's essential summer reading, so join your friends at The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Roll Call et al in falling in love with this one. And join us on August 3rd; already in your tote bag, doves, if you've got any sense at all: Free Food for Millionaires, Throw Like a Girl).

All of my summer projects are listed here, and I do have a few events happening so please consider stopping by if you're in the neighborhood! Also on my agenda this summer: making (or acquiring, but I've long since accepted that most of the things I want don't actually exist yet) the perfect Renaissance-style headband-type thing (scroll down) to go with my recent Lucrezia Borgia fascination.

*If I meet all of my deadlines in record time, plan intelligently for the rest of the year plus scale back my retail therapy of late, I may go somewhere for a week by myself a bit later on, destination TBD. As I've noted before, I'm both impulsive and indecisive, so I suppose I'll make a snap decision later-- with some of my favorite people planning to be in Berlin, Dresden, Dublin, Amsterdam, and possibly Mexico City or Marrakesh in the next six weeks, off the top of my head, I have plenty of options. But don't be surprised if you get a 'Postcard from Florence' (Italy or Alabama-- it could go either way). Or similar. Or I might just chillax at home, feet up on the balcony enjoying the evening breeze. Or... anyway! Back after Labor Day. Promise me something 'til we meet again? (Anything, anything, I know) Make sure you go out and play, okay?

P.S. A thousand thanks to the beautiful, thoughtful and generous Lucille Whitaker for solving my fragrance quandary by sending me Diptyque's Eau De Lente. Intense, brilliant and captivating, it naturally reminds me of her. And I've already gotten multiple compliments. Bisous, darling; yr the best.

Image: Bill Brandt, East End Girl Dancing the Lambeth Walk.

Comments

[lulu]

Lauren ~I adore all the lux lotus highlights for every season: charming music, stylish specs, books recs, writings for bright minds and creative thoughts!!!!! + wow how the ladies fragrances you mention sound divine (don’t forget to tell us your favs for the boys ;)...
Twas just remembering that fall I went to visit you on the east side & u let me into yr fragrance collection & was boldly approached at nearly every serendipitous encounter/event only to shyly reply: i’m taken…
p.s. LUX LOTUS = GENIUS
As for Eau De Lente. Gemini and Aquarius darling & that is all I have to say :)

[Eau De Lente]

Hope u make it to the Greek Islands soon!
Did u see this Eau De Lente write-up---
"All the Diptyque fragrances are natural, whether they are woodsy, spicy, green, floral or fruity. It is Diptyque's proudest accomplishment to have never used a synthetic fragrance in developing its products. Each Eau de Toilette takes you through an exotic journey creations stemming from memories of travels through the Mediterranean and Near East mostly. They conjure up images of the Greek hot summer days, but also an orchard of limes and tangerines, the clear morning of a classical Latin landscape, noon in the countryside or the scent of a green riverside garden." ~Beautyhabit