Gabriele's Hand

07/21/2024

06/13/2024

New York Times best-seller

06/10/2024

03/15/2024

Hyacinth are great for bouquets this time of year

01/25/2024

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01/25/2024

A perfect springtime bouquet and spring will be here before we know it

01/15/2024

Since the winter is devoid of flowers why not reflect that in your bouquets. Berries, pine cones and greenery are just as beautiful.

01/14/2024

EDIT: There’s something so important that a lot of people are missing here, it’s not that somebody like Taylor Swift sits in some smoky back room of her studio cackling while she plots how to exploit people, it’s that the economy is specifically designed that way so she doesn’t even have to.

The bigger she gets, the more exploitable levers of power become available. Using some of those levers is a choice, like overzealous copyright violence, others operate invisibly and require active counter maneuvers to overcome.

I’m pretty sure Taylor probably will morph into like a Dolly or a Madonna who go out of their way to do really generous things like the Books program or the schools in Malawi. But the money that they are giving away is still “gathered” by exploitation. Multiple things can be true at once.

I’m a huge Madonna fan, in my eyes she can do no wrong. She could get a green alien face transplanted onto her face and I would be like oh my God she’s beautiful and still run to the record store and get her new album at midnight. But she does exploit people.

You can be a fan of someone and want to support their work and also recognize that our economy is not functioning in a way that benefits everyone and that we need to address that. Their art will still be brilliant, and they will still benefit from it, the rest of us will just benefit more from our role in their success, and vice versa.

So please if you love Taylor’s art, continue to enjoy it, go to a concert, do whatever you need to do to experience joy while you are living. And also, I can only speak for me, but I plan on using a portion of my time here to try and leave things better than I found them, because that also brings me joy.

One final thought, I put pictures of ridiculous old, rich, white dudes on my page literally all the time, rage bait is a well-known tactic that I use to keep the algorithm juicy so the rest of my content can get seen.

Taylor isn’t special. She’s just useful to drive home the point of the text to this meme, which is essentially “literally every billionaire”. That doesn’t land as hard unless you use a billionaire that many people want to exempt. If all means all, then all means Taylor. I don’t know what else to tell you.

01/02/2024

So true

01/02/2024

New Years Eve magic

11/13/2023

Saturday's wedding at Yale

10/28/2023

Amazing Amanda & Jen wedding at Tunxis Country Club!
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Flowers Gabriele's Hand
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10/28/2023

10/28/2023

Love fall!

07/04/2023

The roses are in full bloom at Elizabeth Park’s Helen S. Kaman Rose Garden in Hartford.

07/02/2023

06/22/2023

So look I get it. I, too, am transfixed by the horror of dying that way and I don't wish it on anyone. That said it is hard to pretend you can't see the irony.

The fundamental indignity of billionaires is that the rest of us make do with too little so they can have too much. Now the tables are turned, they have to die like that so we can have the catharsis of these memes. It's the kind of thing you can't look away from, and I don't think we should. I do hope everyone is letting the light it shines on your inner monologue reveal something helpful.

For me I can say, I'm not only horrified. Some portion of me is also delighted, and I needed to know that about myself, for vengeance is a cornerstone of the state. In the long run, I don't want to indulge that, I want to transcend it.

From that perspective, this moment in history that we're sharing together is a great gift, not just for the memes, but for the insight. Let it not be just an ending for them. Let it be a new beginning for us all.

06/06/2023

Pretty as can be bridal shower

04/26/2023

(Chris)

01/18/2023

Just a touch of blue delphinium in a wintry bouquet to hint at the promise of spring.

06/23/2022

Absolutely loved the colors of these floral arrangements 💜💗

06/13/2022

The grand staircase💜

05/26/2022

A lovely baby shower & two stunning sisters! Lisianthus, delphinium, ivy, & eucalyptus was included in the beautiful arrangement they requested!!! Beautiful blues as far as the eye can see 💙😊

05/23/2022

Flowers on an Arbor from a wedding this past April, beach side with muted pinks and soft yellows for a scenic ceremony 💐💛💖