Bits & Pieces August 2023

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The month of August on the 12th is International Youth Day. This day brings a global focus on the development and protection of our youth. This is a great time to recognize and empower our future generation. And to identify the issues our youth face daily in life. Uplifting and educating the youth today makes them better leaders for the future. Their voice needs to be heard and listened to. Connect with communities that cater to the youth and together let’s protect and develop God’s beautiful creation.

August 12 International Youth Day

Over time the corset changed from an undergarment into fashion statement pieces. Worn less and less as an undergarment but as fashionable statement pieces.

The Perfect Shape Accessory

Trending since the 1820’s commonly worn to hold and train the torso into a desired shape, for a smaller waist and larger bottom. The corset maker would make them to the individual to their body type and size. To help the clients fit into fashionable clothing, shaped with smaller waists.

(Picture cited on Pinterest)

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This Portugal Textile leather corset and jacket is the perfect addition to your fall and winter wardrobe. Crafted with luxurious and supple leather, this tonal camel crop jacket and corset will keep you warm and stylish in any weather. The flattering fit and classic design will make this piece a wardrobe staple for years to come. With endless styling possibilities, this jacket and corset combination will take your look to the next level. (Cited on Pinterest)

This black leather corset double buckle belt is the perfect addition to any wardrobe. With its two buckles and shoulder straps, it looks great over a blazer, dress, shirt, sweater, or any other outfit. It adds an extra touch of jazz to any ensemble and is sure to take your look to the next level. Whether you're dressing for a special event or simply for everyday wear, this belt is a must-have piece. (Sold by Myra Skelton Designs)

It’s kind of like your feet dangling over the boardwalk as you sit here and watch the sparkling waves inches below you slosh back and forth. It will never sit still. Not when there is a breeze dancing with the trees every second of the day simply because the world’s orchestra doesn’t stop. If the music is good, why stop dancing at all? Sometimes the music isn’t good, though. Sometimes we hear these screeches from trenches we can’t even fathom. Sometimes we can’t feel a heel-toe heel-toe rhythm. We jam up, the cobblestone kicks up, dust disorients us, and suddenly we are 2 steps back after 1 forward.

Whenever we think we have a dance down pat we are introduced to this new style and we don’t understand why we can’t just dance what we’ve gone over a thousand times before.

But then we go through the steps like time and time before in our heads and we stumble and fall and bruise our legs. Day in and day out until we lay our heads down we are dancing this dance trying to keep in sync with everchanging tempos of the ensemble, erratic beats, and genre changes. Bloodied feet trying to accommodate this feature arrangement.

Looking down, the dirt beneath is dyed pink and we think, “It can’t be...Why can’t it be me!?” More vigorously we slam our bodies to and from until we know we can’t stand anymore...until Life says enough.

So, we find that pier that we sit down on for a moment. Observing how the orchestra’s members don’t break with us and we have the audacity to wonder why.

That’s Time though.

TIME

Time carries on forever no matter what you do now or later. It’s this overflowing abundance of force that cannot be cut, frozen, prolonged, sped up or slowed down No matter how much we like to believe otherwise. It’s the opposite. We are the ones who can be sped up, slowed down, cut short, prolonged, or frozen in place by the myriad of facets that are embedded in time; tragedy, love, pain, depression, euphoria, joy, and so many other beautifully impactful facets that make up our real love: Life.

The one we blame without remorse, apology, or a second thought, Time is that long love we’ve had that we have practiced managing but that keeps elusively escaping every turn there is. Off on some adventure. Without us.

It's going to be there regardless if we are or not and maybe that's what the problem is that we have with it. Instead of trying to impress what we can’t control, let go... but keep the intent. The intent is what attracts Life to you and all you desire, not Time. When we focus on Time so much we miss this dance with Life we are supposed to focus on.

If we can’t focus on the dance with life, we miss the steps anyway and we never reach the music’s crescendo, the build-up we’ve been waiting for, the end result we put our effort into, therefore, what was the intent behind you learning the steps?

Truth be told we do not hold all of Time’s secrets and we cannot control the timing of our own lives. Time is an orchestrated dance but Life is that which grips us from start to finish as we hear the musical arrangement around us day in and day out. How it grips us is totally up to our current circumstances, past experiences, and what we THINK we may want out of life at this moment. We do not control the music and we do not make it. The maestro creates the music and we are simply conduits for its energy to manifest through us. What we can control, though, is how we dance to it.

Remington ControllingHer Dance

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