We do a ‘spring clean’ of the house every three months – at the summer/winter solstice and spring/autumn equinox. Today was the summer solstice clean. My hands are dry and wrinkly from scrubbing. The house looks beautiful though – all fresh and sparkling. There is a certain loveliness, I think, to performing deep cleaning in… Read More
What can I say … it was windy outside today. Windy, I tell you, it was a very windy day.
Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but nothing is infinite, not… Read More
When I was a child, my mother’s go to remedy for all sorts of spills and ills was something called Gentian Violet. It came in a muslin covered bag, and to apply it you added water so it functioned like a kind of weird purple tea bag.
There is something inside me that is more than just my features arranged in a pretty picture.
This afternoon a thunderstorm rolled in so I pointed my camera through the window and stood outside in the rain. I love the drop of water on the end of my nose and how the rain on the glass looks as though I’m crying.
You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.
― Roman Payne
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still… Read More
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Each person you meet
is an aspect of yourself,
clamoring for love.
We live in an age in which youth is glorified and deified, and a society that equates beauty with young women, perfect women, of a certain size and shape of face and body
Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down.
If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven.
Once you have seen deeply and have been deeply seen, you know that nothing has ever, ever been as it seemed.
