This blog is dedicated to my daughter, and I’m hoping she’ll find it interesting one day, when she’s old enough. But she’ll probably find this post right here and give me this look. This is clearly just my opinion, but house plants are sexy. House plants and eleven other things. Please feel free to agree.
In honor of Valentine’s Day…
#1 White sheets.
“A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman
than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.” – Marlene Dietrich
Photo from Elephantine
#2 Messy buns.
What your bun says about you.
Photo by Scott Laytart via Kitty en Classe
#3 Carbonara
“Carbonara is one of those dishes that proves that the simple things in life are often the best.”
Photo by Mehdi Lacoste for Sous Style
#4 A tailored suit.
“I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time,
and there’s a tailor I go to in Naples who’s fantastic. But if I told
anyone his name, I’d have to kill them.” – Hugh Jackman
Via Man’s Guilt
#5 Subtle jewelry.
“Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion.
That aspect of jewelry really interests me.” – Ann Demeulemeester
Photo from Vogue Spain (via The Southerly
#6 Song.
“If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare
#7 Plants.
“Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them – waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.” – Hayao Miyazaki
Told you.
Via Wit & Delight
#8 Black outfits.
“Women who wear black lead colorful lives.” Neiman Marcus
Photo from Grace Spain
#9 Art.
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton
Canvass print by Marcelo Romero
#10 The beard.
“I can’t believe we even need to have this debate.” – 21 Reasons Bearded Men Are Better
Photo from Drapeau Noir
#11 Fast cars.
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering. All the rest are merely games.” – Ernest Hemingway
Via crackmill
#12 The Sea.
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” – Vincent Van Gogh
First photo via Ignite Light. And thanks for reading.
*And here’s an Instagram account that proves “there are attractive, literate, men in the wild…“
made beds i love most…. and the rest follows. 🙂
Ayayay anonymous 😉
Very nice! But may I add napes and ankles. The intrigue and mystery of looking at napes and ankles tells chapters of who it belongs to. Almost like palm reading but more for the senses. @Angel Cebu City
Angel, thanks for your comment. Ankles and napes yeah? This thread is getting very interesting 🙂
At 67, I still had to read your article …the title is enticing and the article is interesting. Though I do not like beards nor plants …flowers yes !!! ….Sylvia P. Tarlac
I believe I know one incredible Sylvia P from Tarlac 🙂 Tita, are you kidding me?! No beards?!
May I add Spectacles to this list… Nothing is sexier than a bespectacled man or woman, reading a book or newspaper with a cup of joe in hand. That effortless look of Age and Wisdom, albeit from afar sometimes purely imagined, is just so damn sexy! 🙂