Ha ha a bit of writing on my future husband (#145772 and counting) Sufjan Stevens. You should listen to this song, though, it's amazing.Orly’s Every Thought During all Seventeen Minutes and Two Seconds of ‘Djohariah’ by Sufjan Stevens ( Read more... )

It's begun to rain, but it's only summer rain. So it's coming down fast and light and makes the air smell like the earth. It's all the elemental elements in one - the heat of summer for fire, the rain for water, air and earth becoming one. It's refreshing. Up until now the heat has been so still and so heavy. It made me walk between my Mum's office ( Read more... )

I've been using this time to imagine myself in a new way, cosmically ordering things into place ( Read more... )

You find me mid-beginning of a fresh life experiment ( Read more... )

There's a poem by Mary Oliver that I'm reading and re-reading constantly. It's kind of my new year's resolution for how I want to carry on...

Here's the full poem, and here's a piece of the poem ( Read more... )

In the words of Evita... so what happens now? Another suitcase in another hall. So what happens now? Take your picture off another wall. Where am I going to? You'll get by you always have before ( Read more... )

This is the most beautiful season. Even when the air is solid with wet, and the sky is infinite slate, the golds and greens and bronzes and reds of the trees and falling leaves take my breath away. A bright yellow leaf fell in front of me with a loud slap coming home last night. It felt like the full stop of something ( Read more... )

Sunny Sunday last, some of my team-mates and I skated 26.62 miles (a marathon) around the Goodwood motor circuit track. We were raising money for the work of the NSPCC, but also to see if we could finish it, for the challenge of it ( Read more... )

I absolutely love Talya!

She send me such beautiful letters, written on the backs of delightful finds:


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I love a good list.

Latitude 2010

Thursday
Failed to see Tom Jones play on a tiny stage in the forest (-)

Friday
Phil Jupitus (ok)
Ballet Black (+)
Holly Miranda (++)
The Good Natured (+)
Apples (a play) (+)
The National (+)
Jon Ronson (+)
Robin Ince's Book Club (ok)
Gavin Osborn (+)

SaturdayBelle & Sebastian ( Read more... )