When Harry Met Sally

This is honestly one of my favorite movies. For one, I love Meg Ryan… Scratch that, I love pre-2000 Meg Ryan. I think she is adorable.  You’ve Got Mail – also one of my favorite movies, but what I’m getting at here isn’t my love of (pre-2000) Meg Ryan, it’s this  really lovely part of When Harry Met Sally.  Throughout the movie, the main story of Harry and Sally is inter-cut with little interviews of old couples in love, mostly how they met.

Photographer Lauren Fleishman has recaptured this magic in her photo series “Love Ever After”. You probably can’t read that text (unless you right click and pick “view photo”), but it says:

“You don’t really think about getting older. First of all, you’re aging together and when you see a person constantly you don’t notice big changes. You don’t notice, oh, you are getting a little wrinkle here and tomorrow you say it’s a little deeper. Those are things that just happen. You don’t pay attention to those things. I mean, I am not thinking everyday, oh my husband is 83 years old and my goodness I am married to an old man! And I hope he feels that way too.”

- Angie Terranova, Staten Island, New York on December 26, 2008.

Awe man, now tell me that doesn’t brighten your Monday morning just a wee bit?

Tomorrow I leave for Montreal! Hopefully I come back a little less restless and without frostbite.

Little Late

So this one time, Nate and I went to Niagara Falls…

Quote of the Day

To Be Alone With You

OH NO! I accidentally skipped three!

Day 08: 3 things that turn you on.

Sincerity• Intelligence • Confidence

I’m also an absolute sucker for a good head of hair.

My new favorite word is  “homophrosine“, courtesy of The Odyssey.  Translated from Greek, it means “like-mindedness” or “harmony”. Odysseus and Penelope are said to possess  homophrosine: they share an intimate bond that magically connects them. There is an old and ongoing debate as to whether or not Penelope knows at the end of The Odyssey that the beggar before her is Odysseus in disguise.  The tension created by the ambiguity of this one fact defines the whole end of the epic. Practical people argue not — she hasn’t’ seen him in twenty years, he left a young man and returned middle aged, how could she remember his face after so long!? Others, however, say that somewhere, somehow, Penelope knows that this is her husband and without explanation, or even a word, knows to act unaware in order to help him succeed in his plan. Unaffected by distance and time, they are cosmically connected – one mind in two bodies — homophrosine.

Have a wonderful weekend! I’m finally going to see The Social Network tonight- so excited!

Quote of the Day

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.” – Katherine Hepburn

phots via the Neotraditionalist