Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life

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Some tropical plants grow well in water filled containers, which look great on a patio. These jade green ceramic pots are perfect for lush green tropical plants! As the album that shaped the author's understanding and expectations about romantic love at an early age, and which continues to offer comfort and sonic companionship, Blue works here as both a device for her to structure her "own chords of inquiry" and the object she reinterprets in light of this journey. Ultimately, however, Key seeks the vulnerability and emotion of the music to decode her own. In thus examining the life she is making for herself, she attempts to cultivate a new vocabulary of pleasure, one which honours and appreciates moments of quiet transformation but also allows for grief, ambivalence, and all the complex textures of life to exist and take up room. I was attracted to this practice in vulnerability, but sometimes it felt like the author's lamenting left little room for finding genuine appreciation of joy. Having written of my own experiences of reaching middle age without a partner, it’s no surprise to me that women have long shied from this exposing topic. The fear of seeming pitiable, or worse, self-pitying, keeps us quiet; the belief that no one else is quite as hopelessly single as we are keeps us alone.key's prose is luminous and poetic throughout the book, but it particularly shines in the later chapters. i loved the "crazy" chapter detailing her experiences with men which lasted months and years but never fell under the placeholder of "partner/boyfriend" and found it very relatable. key's candour about these relationships (because yes! you are allowed to call them relationships) is so refreshing - i often feel women are pressured into diminishing the impact of the people who treat us badly, especially if this happens outside the limits of a clearly defined romantic partnership. her description of caring for her friend and mentor roddy lumsden through his illness and eventually mourning him after his death is painfully honest but shot through with such tenderness that i nearly cried listening to it. and the final chapter is a beautiful end to the book, with such warm and hopeful reflections on human connection and care outside and within romantic love. Stepping outside categories such as “single” and “married”, Ky explores less easily definable kinds of love, such as the complex relationship she had with her “friend and poetry mentor” Roddy Lumsden. Their connection spanned many years, ending only when Lumsden died in 2020 due to his alcoholism. Key wonders “whether the love I had for Roddy had more significance than our definitions of love and relationships allowed”. Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - an album that shaped Key's expectations of love - as her guide, she examines the unexpected life she has created for herself. Building a home, travelling alone, choosing whether to be a mother, recognising her own milestones, learning the limits of self-care and the expansive potential of self-friendship, Key uncovers the many forms of connection and care that often go unnoticed. Straddling positivity and cynicism, pride and despair, Key's artful inquiry asks us to question our focus on romantic love and consider all that remains outside of it and all that could flourish there, if we let it." Booklist There is a moment in the text where Key discusses her expectations of vacationing as a twenty-something. The glamour she assumed it would bestow, transforming her into a more sophisticated, confident self. But no matter how often she traveled, or where, she always brought the self she was with her. She writes about wanting “the kind of travel I thought went hand in hand with romantic love,” which entailed “staged photos at sunset…hot tubs…to suddenly look chic in a wide-brimmed straw hat.” In other words, luxury was firmly attached to Key’s fantasies of romantic love. “I ached,” she writes, “for the status of relationship that a luxurious holiday would make obvious.” There absolutely is something inherently luxurious about romantic love. Someone outside of yourself appreciating things about you that only another person would notice. Showering you with something beyond kindness. Desiring not only sexual intimacy, but your mere proximity because it comforts them. These are all things that can turn a person into a work of art. Imagine the Mona Lisa coming to life, and holding memories in her mind of the millions who have admired her over the years. We hold ourselves differently when secure in the knowledge of being thoroughly appreciated. This is likely the reason those who are attached get chatted up more often than when they were single. They exude the confidence of the wanted.

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A beautiful, painful, liberating book. Amy Key writes with such tenderness and insight about a life without romantic love at its centre, exacting as to its impoverishments, exultant over its many and unexpected riches." Olivia Laing Plant list 7: Durango Dahlia, Great Balls of Fire White Ivy Leaf Geranium, Yellow Petunia, Bidens ferulifolia ‘Bidy Gonzales’ ( Source: HGTV ) 8. Mixed flower pot plants ideas in showy burgundy colors

I can’t decide which one to start with. But love the mix of herbs and flowers. I’ve not tried this before. Will plant some now. Plant list 15: Rosemary, Lobelia ( Source: Deborah Silver ) 16. Water garden / mini pond in tub planter Thanks for all the wonderful suggestions! i just bought 2 beautiful glazed containers and my question is: Should I keep the plants in their original containers from the nursery or transplant them directly in the glazed containers? Thanks! Arrangements in Blue” had everything to be a book I loved: Joni Mitchell’s Blue, one of the formative albums of my life, analyzed through the eyes of a woman’s life, each chapter a theme (grief, love, home life, vacations).Delicate, tender, vulnerable and utterly gorgeous. I have so much respect and appreciation to the way Amy Key allowed the reader to get such a large piece of her heart and mind in this memoir. I thought this was such a refreshing take on longing, loneliness, and negotiating your own version of adulthood between what you desire, what you should desire, and the idea of the nuclear family and romantic companionship. Arrangements in Blue] asks how to build a good life when you don’t have what you want—and how to do so without denying what it is that you want, or the possibility that what you want may come along." New Republic - Hannah Rosefield Amy Key—a writer “of rare and strange magic” ( Guardian)—probes the art of living without romance in this soul-stirring debut. A Mixed Flower Bouquet costs §68 to craft and sells for §85. A Rose Bouquet costs §96 to craft and sells for §120. Sketch the three Bravais lattices of the cubic system, and calculate the number of atoms contained in each of these unit cells.