Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts

20100309

eleven things i love


1. north avenue beach. 
we used to walk there in the summertime.  i won't forget will and drew dragging the cooler full of beer, stopping frequently to drink some to lighten the load.



2. hanging laundry, and the beautiful color of this house.



3.  this birds-on-a-wire wall decal



4. this look.  (funky sweater, skirt with tights, and the camera looks beautiful too!)



5.  dearest neil.  an eternal favorite.




6. this minty blue nail polish



8. the beautiful sound of the sitar




9. these paintings by rosiemusic



10. riding in cabs at night



11. delicate dresses with dark tights


unsourced photos from weheartit

20100306

well at least


if there's not a reason to celebrate
you should look for one.



you can be calm for now.
(somebody else is driving)




you may discover
over tea and toast
that i'm not who you think i am.


today is a saturday that feels like a sunday, which is like saying i saw a sparrow that looked like a crow.  the thing is, it's been a long week of successes and mistakes.  incidentally, i've decided it's better to have just one category.  successes or mistakes.  what's hard is the combination.  you feel bad celebrating when you've spoiled it with something else that went wrong.  so you just sit in one place while your mind bounces between i can't believe i phrases and  well at least i ones.

well at least i'm healthy.
well at least i have will.
well at least i have a job.

tonight we go to the levines' for dinner and the company of the alexanders.  we'll bring our records back to their massive record library and come home with a lovely new batch.  i had a dream that i accidentally ruined all of the records we're borrowing right now.  that's the way i've been dreaming lately.

well at least i have my violin to play.
well at least i have all of my limbs.

there's always something to worry about.  the only thing i do about that is to stop feeling worried.

well at least it's sunny today.

[thankyouforreading]

20100301

eleven things i love

1. chuck taylors - the dirtier the better.



2. interesting bed spots




3. moleskine journals


4. fingerless gloves


5. this photo (making music, drinking tea)


6. this look


7. the smell of sunscreen


8. red lipstick (and audrey, of course)


9. big sweaters + floral print



10. ornate thrift store dessert dishes


11. bird tattoos




20100225

on happiness

will and i were talking last night about how to be happy.  there are too many reasons to feel stressed out and star to feel down.  luckily, when one of us is down, the other is usually up enough to talk sensibly.  we discussed that being happy is something you have to do, like an act.  to be happy.  a choice, we decided (or remembered, because i'm sure we've had this conversation before.)

it's one reason that i blog.  i'm collecting things that i love.  allowing my brain to bathe in what it enjoys looking at, writing, listening to, etc.

and now, a few favorites.



delicious diet coke.  and i like this print, but i do prefer to drink it from a can.  something about the metallic taste.  two cans a day, sometimes.  i think it's to blame for keeping me up at night once in a while.



sushi.  really really fresh sushi.  and i think if u were to ask will or me where our favorite place is we'd say clark st., chicago - sushi para II.  all you can eat sushi and byob.  the best deal ever.



great pens.  i write a lot and have too many journals to keep track of anymore.  most of what i write is fluff, but when you write often enough you find something to say. so i have a thing for good quality pens.  they're one of those little luxuries that are worth the extra dollar or two.



regina spektor.  she owns her style and has such a pretty voice.  one of her songs makes me think of the part of will and me that took place three years ago in the city.  my studio apartment.  the 12th floor on west wrightwood, around the corner from the lake.  he told me around that time that the song "fidelity" made him think of me.  because our relationship would be nothing without chance or fate, which has always made it feel very delicate and special. 
suppose i never ever saw you/suppose you never ever called.





thank you for reading.  :)


20100224

enjoy some nice images

deep sleep.

too young to know what they want.

i'd like to escape to this place once in a while.

the perfect spot for writing, i bet.

peace.

vintage sheet music.

a sushi purse.

urban spring.

michigan & randolph
chicago, il

the character i probably pretended to be most often when i was little.

20100220

and now my pretty, something with poison in it

i was on etsy this morning when i typed "poppy" into the search.  i don't know what brought it to mind.  poppies are one of my favorite flowers, and some of the things i found were really lovely. enjoy.














le coquelicot - or a painting of a woman in the style of a poppy






















this april, my 7th grade orchestra will be playing somewhere over the rainbow for our pops concert.  i think my fondness for poppies grew from the wizard of oz. i imagine dorothy falling asleep in the field on her way to the emerald city and the shrill, treble sound of the wicked witch's voice.