black+white.

{emmas design blogg}

for the weekend...

{here}

this pretty space.

{this pretty space}

move forward...take the light...

I want you to use your voice. I want you to yell and scream and run and jump and use every bit of energy you have to race around the block, banging on drums and cymbals, car hoods and trunks, neighbors’ doors, the bells on bikes, tree stumps, and trashcans. I want you to be loud and fierce and wild, unable to be tamed, eager for knowledge and bloodthirsty for revenge. I want you to slip and slide, get wet in fountains and sprinklers, splash with all your might, and then get back to screaming for justice, for your momma, for another piece of pie, for a world that’s being raped by ignorance and intolerance. I want you to take a stand, find your place, claim an area, and rope off what’s yours. I want to know that every bit of power you were born with has been harnessed and is in full use so that when you need strength, you won’t have to rely on your reserves. You can be sliced neat as bread, stacked like overdue paperwork and library books, but I want to hear your voice and your machinations. I want you dressed in liberty with a grey smile and a flaming torch. Don’t let anyone stand on you. You are special and unique and there is no one like you and believe me, little girl, that is a good thing. You will meet people who will want you to shrink back so that they can step into the spotlight and claim all the warmth. Don’t let them. Move forward, take the light, accept the applause, understand how brilliant you are. People will inevitably say mean things to you or about you; don’t suck those things under your skin and try to make sense of them. Don’t be afraid to grab a megaphone and let the world know you exist. Bust forth, make demands, speak up, don’t shy down. You don’t owe the world an apology for anything and don’t you EVER forget it.

-Chi Sherman

{37 days}
read THIS ONE too.

i ♥ calligraphy.

{lovely calligraphy by lila @ daily calligraphy}

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monday.

{trisha brink}

dream.

happy weekend.

i would love to be staying here this weekend. or forever!

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have you seen "when the levees broke"? i am in the process of watching it now. truly appalling situation, especially looking back now after Haiti. we take care of all but our own.

{flickr photo}

mended spiderweb.

this is very cool.

{thanks, janet!}

someone looking for a star to guide them...

"Ask yourself often, "'What do I see when I see people?"

Like all good questions this will slow you down. And slowing down when it comes to judging others will make you gentle and keep you kind.

Because the first thing we see when we meet others is their mask. But if you pause and think a bit, you'll see someone like you. Someone's child. Someone who is uncertain. Someone looking for a star to guide them.

It's always easier to be kind when you know "they" are struggling just like you."

-Mike Wagner

{37 days + theresa rowe}

burst + bloom.

it is extraordinary how fast the earth rebuilds itself after a harsh winter. in just the first few days of spring sprouts poke their heads up through the snow-wet soil. it is extraordinary how fast we rebuild ourselves after we feel the most lost/empty/hurt. in just a few days/months/moons we begin to once again lift our chins towards the sky. burst and bloom.

{ you are remarkable + lisa golightly}

save our living earth.

{via your secret admiral}

i can do anything good!

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renegade.

i went to the renegade craft fair yesterday in austin with my lovely friend suzannah.
i was surprised to come home empty handed but my heart was full of laughs and my belly was full of hey cupcake! so it was a worthwhile journey.

here are my favorites:
lucky me beads
McCheeks (i almost bought this tiny mug for $38 but refrained.)
clay wood + cotton (their card was even handmade from paper and old fabric.)
jules marie jewelry
lisa chow @ apt 3305
two guitars
katinka pinka
your secret admiral
rose + duke (adorable embroidered baby dresses.)
figs + ginger
viva zapata! (divine bags! i should have got one but forgot to go back to their booth.)
magnolia photo booth (the best part! free + complete with props! suzannah and i chose eye masks and moustaches.)

{thanks for a sparkly fun day, chicken!}

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it would be so fun to stay at the shady dell!
go here for a virtual tour.
the airfloat is my favorite.

a little magic...

{here}

happy weekend!

this wedding is stunning!

:)

i will be here this weekend!!!

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these are fitting.

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i love this idea. i am now searching for an old door...

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{the wheatfield}

monday.

{vol.25}

words to live by.....

If I were asked to give what I consider the single

most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would

be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life,

and when it comes, hold your head high, look it

squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than

you. You cannot defeat me." Then repeat to yourself

the most comforting of all words, "This too shall

pass."

Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating

experience is of prime importance.

-Ann Landers

{thanks, MOM!}

sweet sweet life.

{sweet sweet life flickr}

happy mother's day.

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a day off...

I always felt like a bird blown through the world.
I never felt like a tree.

I never wanted a patch of this earth to stand in,
that would stick to me.

I wanted to move by whatever throb my muscles
sent to me.

I never cared for cars, that crawled on land or
air or sea.

If I rode, I'd rather another animal: horse, camel,
or shrewd donkey.

Never needed a nest, unless for the night, or when
winter overtook me.

Never wanted an extra skin between mine and the sun,
for vanity or modesty.

Would rather not have parents, had no yen for a child,
and never felt brotherly.

But I'd borrow or lend love of friend. Let friend be
not stronger or weaker than me.

Never hankered for Heaven, or shield from a Hell,
or played with the puppets Devil and Deity.

I never felt proud as one of the crowd under
the flag of a country.

Or felt that my genes were worth more or less than beans,
by accident of ancestry.

Never wished to buy or sell. I would just as well
not touch money.

Never wanted to own a thing that wasn't I born with.
Or to act by a fact not discovered by me.

I always felt like a bird blown through the world.
But I would like to lay

the egg of a world in a nest of calm beyond
this world's storm and decay.

I would like to own such wings as light speeds on,
far from this globule of night and day.

I would like to be able to put on, like clothes,
the bodies of all those

creatures and things hatched under the wings
of that world.

-by May Swenson





today i will be like the girl in this picture, skipping work to stay home and solve this poem, and listen to pretty songs.

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In this high place
it is as simple as this,
leave everything you know behind.

Step toward the cold surface,
say the old prayer of rough love
and open both arms.

Those who come with empty hands
will stare into the lake astonished,
there, in the cold light
reflecting pure snow

the true shape of your own face.

~David Whyte

{thank you, patti}

vickytzo.

{vickytzo}

missed connections...

{these never fail to make me smile and rebuild my faith in the world because it means that people are still observant.}

meet me at the rainbow's end...

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{here}