The Titles of These Postcards Make for Such a Dreamy Life...

I've got these three postcards up on the bulletin board in my office at the moment, making me happy. They're reproductions of my favorite pieces seen at the last museum I visited, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. (Amazing museum, by the way--one of the best ever. I like my museums small, so you can spend some time with each piece. If you ever get a chance, go by all means.)

What I'm really loving today, however, is the titles of these three pieces. I didn't pick them for their titles, but the titles, taken together, make for such a dreamy life.

We are, God willing, going to have our first child this year, and six months later, my husband will finish college, so there are lots of changes in store for us the next couple years. I think a lot about our future and I'm very hopeful. Anything could happen...there's so much in my life that's not yet set. But a life described this way would be lovely:

On the Beach

Setting for a Fairy Tale

Empire of Light

Maybe it means something that these are in my day-to-day living space at the moment?

The pieces, top to bottom (all part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection):

1. On the Beach (La Baignade), Pablo Picasso, 1937

2. Setting for a Fairy Tale, Joseph Cornell, 1942

3. Empire of Light, Rene Magritte, 1953-54