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Happy birthday! Love this list of inspirations, I totally forgot about gurl.com omg what a throwback!!

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Thank you!! Gah wasn’t that era the best 🥹

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It was :')

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Loved reading about your inspirations! Happy birthday!

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Thanks always Melissa!

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This is fantastic! Thank you for sharing. Happy birthday!

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Thank you dearly!! 🫶

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Sep 27Liked by Carolyn Yoo

Happy Belated Birthday! I loved 33 - was a magical year for me, hope yours will be too!

I had no idea Sister Corita Kent had written a book - how did I not know that!?! I will add that to my must read list. So jealous that you got to see Hilma Klints work in the Guggenheim- WOW! It’s a reminder of how profound it can be to experience great work in person. I visited the Hauge a couple of years ago but was unable to see The girl with the Pearl Earring. Gutted! I hope you get there one day.

Thanks for sharing!

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Sep 28·edited Sep 28Author

Ahh the book is wonderful, hope you can check it out soon! And ahhh the Guggenheim is a perfect museum to see an artist retrospective, especially Hilma af Klint :) Here’s hoping both of us can make it out to the Hague to see Vermeer!

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Happy belated!!!

Just put Sunlight on my electronic work playlist 🥰

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Yay thanks Jamal! Happy to hear it 🥰 would love a link to your playlist if it’s public!

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This may seem wild, but I’ve actually never thought about making a playlist public!

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I've been very blessed to have seen and been inspired by Edgar Degas' artwork to the point of composing music based on some of them, but the ONE that I keep missing is L'Absinthe so I understand your disappointment in not seeing Girl with a Pearl Earring! I hope one day we'll both get to see our respective favourites in person 🤞

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Happy Belated Birthday!!

Thank you for sharing this wonderful list of inspirations with us all.

You had me at Roald Dahl books. I love his books. Quentin Blake's illustrations are beautiful, whimsical, and inspiring.

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Happy birthday, and thank you for this beautiful list!

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Happy birthday Carolyn! And going down this list was a bit of memory lane. I totally forgot how much I loved Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. Now I want to read it again. Polly Pocket reminds me of my kids' toys. I also love the Frida self portrait and yes, Kilma af Klint's show was incredible. I still look at the photos I took of that exhibit on my phone from time to time.

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Happy birthday! What an inspiring list. I usually make a list at the end of the year for the year, but have not thought to do for the years of my life, I may just try it!

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Happy belated birthday Carolyn ✨️ from your list sounds like it have been a 33 magic years, I love how much memories we can collect through and they can influence, sometimes change, our life's perspective! Wish you another beautiful round to the sun 💛

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