“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
~ Marcel Proust
For an avid mountain biker, soccer player, off-road enthusiast, husband to a beautiful wife and father to two delightful children, news that you’ve been diagnosed with brain cancer doesn’t conveniently fit into your life’s plan. That was four years ago for North Carolina native Johnathan Tisdale, who said in the midst of his struggle, “There are very few things that I can control. But the one thing I can control is my attitude.”
It happens every year. You open an invitation for a wedding, party or fundraiser and written there amidst the details is a cryptic term that is supposed to tell what you should wear. While some labels make sense, others leave too much up to the imagination. Use these guidelines to help you interpret your occasion’s attire etiquette.
Designed for Bearings by Phil Brane
Photo by Killy Ridols
“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At some point during childhood, every boy stood on the bank of a body of water, skipping stones for hours. The seemingly rudimentary activity captured our imagination and became nothing less than a grand quest. Somewhere along the way, the fulfillment and enjoyment of such a simple pastime was replaced by far more complex, yet not necessarily better, interests and distractions.
If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians will not appreciate the determination and pluck of the South, and Southern politicians do not appreciate the numbers, resources and patient perseverance of the North. Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I foresee that our country will pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins.
~Robert E. Lee – May 5, 1861
