December 2011
54 posts
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
– Anne Frank (via milkandbookies)
Winter break finds me inhaling books like fresh country air.
thewoodbetweentheworlds asked: You're welcome dearie, and oh, you followed me! - thank you. I'm so pleased to hear that you're able to start making music, just as you wished! Do tell me all about it. xx
Zielschmerz
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency.
thewoodbetweentheworlds asked: Darling Raia, I saw that you wanted some questions but I didn't like any on the list, so I'll ask another instead. What is your favourite season, and why? xx J.
weissewiese asked: 19 and 29.
2012 will be: drawing, sewing, and music making EVERYDAY.
List of People who Have Mysteriously Disappeared →
cheers.
Work today: walk through a delightful neighbourhood, snow falling, hot chocolate in hand, cheeks pink.
Anonymous asked: Where have you travelled?
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Anonymous asked: Describe your fashion sense?
Anonymous asked: Are you rich?
“I’m such a tiny constellation, but thank you for noticing me.”
– (via wintersbones)
picked up two new books the other day from the thrift store:
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Road to Yesterday - L. M Montgomery
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
– Anthony Burgess (via misswallflower)
I have a longing to watch a good movie, a beautiful movie. Might you suggest one to me?
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
– Maya Angelou (via mirroir)
halfstrippedtrees:
How wonderful it is for those who have so many words at their disposal. The way they stroke the words the right way, like honey in their hands. I do envy eloquence in a person. It’s a trait I only possess occasionally. I have cats, I would know.
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– SLEEPING IN THE FOREST I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as...
“I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted...”
– Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
I am such a perplexing mixture of shy and outgoing.
kaleidoscopedreams asked: Oh my, what a marvelous treasure I have tiptoed into! Your tumblr is spellbinding; it reminds me of morning frost and old parchment and steeping tea. I will wrap your words and images around my heart to keep warm on these winter nights. Shine on, precious diamond.
Taking a ridiculously long candelit bath while listening to the Hobbit audiobook.
“We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea....”
– Paul Tillich (via thewoodbetweentheworlds)
Mountain Man - Dog Song
Phosphene
awainwright:
A sensation of light caused by excitation of the retina by mechanical or electrical means rather than by light.
Or, the beautiful strings of light that dance when you rub your sleepy eyes.
I am so tired today.
