XXIV

Its raining. Hard. And I’m reminded that life is a beautiful, heady, overwhelming thing. So much feeling crammed into so few hours of every day. You wake up tired, or hungry, or hungover, or anxious, sometimes you wake up peacefully or with great anticipation. You stagger – we all stagger – into your daily routine. Breakfast, lunch, dinner; for the lucky amongst us they sign post our days and help to compartmentalize our thoughts. “If I could just submit this report by lunch,” “I’ll meet you at 6 o’clock for dinner,” “Its only been 2 hours since  breakfast!? I’m starved.” We love the moments that we love and every other moment falls into a category of fear, anxiety, regret, stress, pressure, embarrassment, anger, frustration, uncertainty, oh the list goes on. All of these in a day, sometimes, and a million more besides.

But that’s life at the micro level. That’s life lived small, moment-to-moment, taking stock of everything that go’s right, or go’s wrong, and tipping the scales of our minds with them to see where we end up.

I do not wish to live a small life.

(Image: Oracle Fox)

XXIII

Hang my locket around your neck, wear my ring on your finger. Love is invincible facing danger and death. Passion laughs at the terrors of hell. The fire of love stops at nothing - it sweeps everything before it. Flood waters can't drown love, torrents of rain can't put it out. Love can't be bought, love can't be sold - it's not to be found in the marketplace.

(Source: Bassike, Song of Solomon)

XXII

Days like these lead to

Nights like this leads to

Love like ours

You light the spark in my bonfire heart.

People like us we don't

Need that much just some

One that starts

Starts the spark in our bonfire hearts…

(Source: James Blunt, The Lane)

XXI

[Wordsworth] attributed to imaginative literature the primary role in keeping the human beings who live in such [new urban, industrial] societies emotionally alive and morally sensitive. Literature, that is, could keep humans essentially human.

(Norton Anthology, Fashion Gone Rogue)

XX

To not just say love, or write love, or tell of love.
To not just speak it or sing it, or whisper it.
To not just articulate my love, but
To show it.
To show it to you.
That is a promise I make.
Love is a verb I always want to show you.

IXX

I want just to take a breath and take in the universe. 

And then the planning. And then the to-ing and the fro-ing and the buy the house, buy the land, make an investment, upskill, take another job, change career paths, pursue the dream, make it count, make it count, impress someone, do something righteous with my time, make money, save money, earn money, spend money on things that will last, build a home, build a future, collect things.

I’m not ready for that yet. I’m ready to be free. And then in a little while… okay. 

XVIII

"The more digitally dependant we become - and today we really are, we like to press buttons - I think the more craftsmanship is celebrated."

"Imagination and problem solving are a really big part of great work, there are no great artists who don't solve problems. Often it just comes down to finding the most beautiful solution."

- Heidi Moore-Gill, Vogue Australia Oct 2013

The most editorially enthralling issue with such on-point content I've had the pleasure of devouring in a long long while.
Cheers, VOGUE
- S

(Images: Fashion Gone Rogue)