A couple walked into Nectar, mid-December, Nat King Cole singing The Christmas Song, lights twinkling around the window displays of fancifully wrapped gifts, tables and furniture overflowing with items from all over the world.
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At Nectar I witnessed relationship dynamics every day for 12 amazing years until I closed my last physical shop this past November.
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Meet Zofia Wolicki, Director of Sales and Marketing for one of Nectar's favorite small businesses: Hand in Hand.
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This is the story of a furniture and gift shop owner who lost her way. “Focus on the beauty,” my Indian mother Kumi says, ever evolved. She does not mean this in a superficial way, as in beauty of the body, she could give a rat's ass about that.
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The summer months are hectic and as wonderful as it is to get outside and spend time with friends and family, it’s also important that we find moments to recharge.
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…it wasn’t ordinary at all, this inherently elegant thing. It was something much more: a cord that connected them before me in an overt way and to the women they secretly carried within them. Then the daughter turned her wrist over in a careless motion to indicate the way it was bound…
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The joyous, open-hearted man in this photo worked in a gorgeous antique shop in a town on our way back to Marrakech, Morocco where I went in 2015.
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While in a foreign country, an ear for language and bartering abilities are only part of the picture when it comes to making connections.
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