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laire Fraser, one of the two main characters in Outlander (with her husband, Jamie Fraser), was a World War II combat nurse in England before she time-traveled back to 18th century Scotland....
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FEBRUARY:
A Dance of Fire and Ice
Cold winds howl.
As a veil of grey cloaks the skies,
turned to frost,
the mood is often heavy
as the snow we lie beneath.
With holiday sparkles but a glimmer in our memories, and the promise of Spring...
The wild dance
that sweeps us off our feet
and into a whirling wind of stars
must then deliver us,
gently,
back to earth.
Is it already that time, mes amours? The end of the calendar year is upon us so quickly as the planet...
“What symmetry! What art! They are the tears of mermaids!”
—A jeweler describing a string of pearls in Desire (1936), starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
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Silvery moonlight can create a surface luminosity, an incandescence, a glow on the skin like nothing else. And in the spirit of our celestial issue, we thought we’d share some heavenly balms and serums—with silky botanical oils like rosehip,...
The way she plays with us, Spring,
coyly giving us a taste of the Sun
only to wave her wand,
and cast us back again into the chill.
But the new season is brewing,
stirring steady and ever faster.
Can you feel it?
March is a...
In the dream of a woman as a flower, she is nestled deep within.
Embraced by silken petals she sleeps
infused with scent, cloaked in the dew of youth
eternally kissed by its beauty.
She awakens as her petals unfurl, revealing to all...