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prettybooks:

Books are magical (by nikynator1993)

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by coffeestainsandcigarettes

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Who I Follow

Visited the Out of Focus exhibition at Saatch Gallery over the weekend - it was the first photography exhibit at the gallery for years. The first Gallery you walk in is a series of portraits shot by Katy Grannan. These two stood out the most to me.

The older lady on the left, she looks like she’s lived and lived well. Yes, her skin is worn, yes she has wrinkles but I think all those wrinkles just show how much she’s laughed in her lifetime. Her blue eyes still look so youthful, so vibrant, so willing. She has the expression that I would want to wear on my own face when I get to her age.

The lady on the right. All dolled up, wearing someone else’s costume she looks like.. she’s watching something turn away, something or someone slip away. Like she had just been shattered or rejected. I don’t ever want to wear this expression…

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

daring greatly : my next tattoo.
- Theodore Roosevelt

There’s got to be something else - Laura Izibor, Shine

Decidedly obsessed with Laura Izibor at the moment. Love love. Adding to my playlist =)

My cheese monster will never be satisfied with cheddar. Only with accomplishment.

LOVE IT.

Meant to Live - Switchfoot

Music always seems to remind me that I’m making the right choices…

I was trying so hard. To find a song, a video. Something. Anything. Something that captures what I’m feeling. Shock, grief, anger. So many emotions have been running through me since I got that message today.

I wanted a song that would show my frustration. My grief. And I couldn’t. I couldn’t find a song that captured all of that.

You were so young. And it’s so UNFAIR. SO unfair that you had to leave so early - you were a newly wed with a baby and you’ve left so early. Because you live in an unfortunate place on Earth, you passed within days - you didn’ get any chance. That would never of happened to me.

I can’t understand it. I know it happens all over the world and it’s something that I’ve always felt strongly about. Now? Now that it’s happened so close to home. My own cousin. I can only imagine what millions of other people fear everyday. And it’s horrible. It’s terrifying.

I couldn’t find a song to capture everything. So I went with this.

I wish you were here Joy. It was too soon.

Some statue at Kensington Gardens that symbolises Ambition..

Walking through Hyde Park, Mr said this area was ugly. I saw a little wanna-be wilderness amongst civilised, tamed greenery. haha.

Brighton, UK.

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Let The Good Times Roll

It’s been awhile since I’ve worked on my playlist. This song is added!