honey, I'm home

so so so excited for this new life...

You’ll find out as you set out after your dreams that most people don’t really want you to transcend the situation you were born into. Perhaps they’re scared for you, perhaps they don’t believe in you, or perhaps they’re just nasty, negative naysayers. Whichever it is, I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back. Because, if you’re the kind of person who senses there’s something out there for you beyond whatever it is you’re expected to do, if you want to be extraordinary, you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you’re not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be. We have a saying in New York: when you’re the most happening person at the party, it’s time to leave. _Kelly Cutrone

 

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. _F. Scott Fitzgerald

...well that's just fabulous.

Watching Sex and the City (especially the American Girl in Paris episodes) makes me realize how obsessed I am with fashion and SJP. Totally need to invest in the 'naked dress' and the bubble dress.

Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous.

obsessed

so obsessed with the Oracle Fox blog. there's so many good blogs from australia- makes me want to go.

think like a tree

Soak up the sun
Affirm life's magic
Be graceful in the wind
Stand tall after a storm
Feel refreshed after it rains
Grow strong without notice
Be prepared for each season
Provide shelter to strangers
Hang tough through a cold spell
Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring
Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky
Be still long enough to
hear your own leaves rustling.
-karen shragg

how many days 'til summer...

I desperately need warm weather and sunshine and jean shorts. The seasonal depression is setting in hard.

bass head

I wish this song could be my soundtrack all day long...

heaven

I wanna be Mimi

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Besides the creepy stalker and murder plot, that is my dream lifestyle. Living in Italy in the 1950s.

Saint Theresa's Prayer

May today there be peace within
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith
May you use those gifts that you have received and pass on the love that has been given to you
May you be content knowing that you are a child of God
Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul to sing, dance, praise and love,
It is there for each and every one of us.

r.w.e.

"most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine"

"live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air's salubrity..."

first-timer

As obsessed as I am with following other blogs, I always opted out of having one of my own. I always thought that I didn't have enough interesting things to say but I finally realized that it's not for anyone else. It's just a fun way to share the poems, art, fashion, and pictures that I'm always wasting my time looking at. Better I put them on a blog that I can look back at instead of having tons of web page tabs and bookmarks always up on my computer and magazine cut-outs laying around. So I finally have a place to organize all the stuff I love and if other people like it enough to look at it, thats cool too :)