Confuscious has been quoted as saying “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” I feel that is a good quote for our Fran. I was missing her today and had pulled this photo to use this spring and felt that today was a good day for that.

There are those people who for whatever reason have the ability to appear timeless and classic. I have never felt that way. There are times I feel awkward and the least put-together version of myself. Those are the times when I tend to look at my possessions and question if I really need them. This photo of Fran to me is just that timeless and classic. I feel that one could dress in that skirt and shirt today and it would not be out of style.

Leo Babauta, a writer, former journalist and former editor of the Pacific Daily News gives us this bit of advice for simplistic living. “Simplicity boils down to two steps. Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.”

Fran was good at living simply and showing us all that something didn’t have to be new to be valued and that we can all learn to be timeless and classic.