January 2012
30 posts
Looking outside my window, I could almost imagine this scene unfolding in front of my eyes:
ahh If only James McAvoy was wandering around my front yard…
what a tattoo!
Nature is Awesome.
DO: enjoy some silence
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I need to remember to take a moment out every once in a while to be quiet and rejuvenate. Especially this week.
“To those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. But to the movers, the makers, and the shakers, the world is all around, an endless invitation.”
Source Unknown
i’m feeling a little bit like the former right now…
I’m going to make myself a pair of mustache shoes. It’s going to happen. And no twinklings of maturity are going to stop me.
True.
So here I am sitting on my grandmother’s balcony in Florida. While reports of snow and wind back home surround me, I’m wearing shorts on a balmy, sea-side night. I am surrounded by family, and by my little niece.
And yet I’m homesick.
Florida, while amazing, is anything but home and family undercurrents are beginning to stress me out. Everything is so focused on the baby, (a...
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art - write, or draw, or build, or sing, or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
- Neil Gaiman
"Wake me Up" - Ed Sheeran
I should ink my skin, with your name.And take my passport out again,and just replace it.See I could do without a tan on my left hand,where my fourth finger meets my knuckle.And I should run you a hot bath, fill it up with bubbles. ‘Cause maybe your loveable,and maybe your my snowflake,and your eyes turn from green to grey,in the winter I’ll hold you in a cold place.And you should...
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Muhammad Ali
“Buy a blank notebook. Draw a huge heart on the cover. Don’t write anything...”
– Kim: Advice from a Mermaid in a Manhole (via julie911)
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of...
