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Wake up and smell the honeysuckle sunlight. Bite into a warm Saturday afternoon and let its nectar drip through your fingers. Listen for the taffeta skirts of June brides, the lazy bark of a dog-day afternoon, the silent pause between twilight and full night. Go barefoot on a hot sidewalk and feel it bake the ache out of your winter. Track the shadow journey of your plane over a lonely farm far below or watch the wind ruffle the long grass of a field. Make Coppertone your pheromone and climbing roses your “Stairway to Heaven.” Caress the sun-filled curves of a hometown tomato and wed it to smoky slices of bacon bedded on butter lettuce. I now pronounce you BLT. Let your eyes make love to aquamarine pools, whipped-cream clouds and bold gold sunflowers. Have a sensational summer!

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“Lose your mind and come to your senses.” Fritz Perls

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Nikki Hardin Creative Director Caitilin McPhillips caitilin.mcphillips@skirt.com Market Manager Kate Cooper Metts kate.metts@skirt.com Contributing Editors Jenny Maxwell jennymaxwell@mindspring.com Gracie Shepherd gracie.shepherd@gmail.com Sales Director

Lisa Dorn lisa.dorn@skirt.com

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Doressa Hawes doressa.hawes@skirt.com Lisa Taylor lisa.taylor@morris.com Maidi McMurtrie Thompson maidi.thompson@morris.com Mary Porter Vann mary.vann@morris.com

Features Girl Before a Mirror Melissa Ann Sweat ...........................11 Summer All Year Long Dean Lofton .....................................13

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Sara Caldwell Molly Harrell Advertising

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2014

june

xoxonikki Founder of skirt! Magazine

Where I find the magic:

I do more armchair than actual traveling,

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

All winter, I long for

and Suitcase magazine is

summer, dream of week-

one of my favorite guides

ends that last a week,

for those fantasy journeys.

imagine flowering vines

It covers fashion, music, art

twining around my life. The

and travel in a style I can

reality is different, of course.

only dream about. Next

Sweat. Dust. Pollen. Global

stop…Istanbul from my

warming. But somewhere

armchair. SuitcaseMag.com

in my genes is a barefoot Kentucky kid who grew up without TV or A/C,

this month I am loving~

who played outside until lightning bugs turned on, who climbed into bed after washing her dirty feet and then fell fast asleep instantly. Goodnight moon.

BANANA TREES, CHIE MIHARA SHOES, BLUE PORCH CHAIRS

June days

Clicking It Old School with the VSCO Cam app

will find me:

...And Blue mood songs on Lykke Li’s new CD

Visiting

the beach mid-week

Saluting the summer solstice

Floating in a Key West salt water pool

Walking More, sitting less. Playing with watercolor crayons.

Who are you when no one is watching?

may

“Play is a form of worship,” goes one of my favorite quotes. Summer is made for play, maybe because we relegate it to “vacation” time. When I’m playing with my camera or paints, time bends in a funny way. It both stops and flies. Hours can pass before I know it, but I’m also in a time-less space that feels a lot like being a child again. Before I was old enough to know I was “wasting” time, I spent whole days setting up a sacred pretend space on my grandmother’s bedroom floor and constructing elaborate lives for my paper dolls. That’s when I really knew how to worship. Follow Nikki’s blog at fridaville.com. 34  june/july

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