Scales and Arpeggios

haffalump: TRAINS | [listen here] [download here] | (a mix for...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:57:41 -0400

TRAINS | [listen here] [download here] | (a mix for the jostling rhythm of train tracks beneath wheels, as you wind like rope through fingers, threading through the cracks in the earth)

i. amsterdam - daughter | ii. boats & trains - stornoway | iii. drive darling - boy | iv. mt washington - local natives | v. interlude 3 - alt j | vi. sweet disposition - temper trap | vii. 3,6,9 - cat power | viii. sun in your eyes - grizzly bear | ix. bourgeois- phoenix | x. wild - beach house | xi. wild - beach house | xii. how can you swallow so much sleep - bombay bicycle club | xi. wild - beach house | xii. how can you swallow so much sleep - bombay bicycle club

choosechoice: Dove hired a forensic artist to draw how women...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:55:23 -0400

choosechoice:

Dove hired a forensic artist to draw how women see themselves versus how others see them - the results are moving.

cottoncondy: thingsawhovianshoulddo: krifri: I’m in! Mark...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:26:12 -0400

cottoncondy:

thingsawhovianshoulddo:

krifri:

I’m in!

Mark your calendars before you forget!

its on my birthday doidjgij

haffalump: THE GREAT GATSBY | [listen here] [download...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:02:35 -0400

haffalump:

THE GREAT GATSBY | [listen here] [download here] | (all i kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘you can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’)

i. new york, new york - carey mulligan & liz caplan | ii. super rich kids (feat earl sweatshirt) - frank ocean | iii. electricity - the avalanches | iv. million dollar man - lana del rey | v. crest - the antlers | vi. this life - josef salvat | vii. the mall and the misery - broken bells | viii. usa boys - health | ix. goods - iamamiwhoami | x. breaking vows - serengeti | xi. velvet - lykke li | xii. miss america - j cole | xiii. blue blood blues - the dead weather | x. let it go - the neighbourhood | xiv. little black submarines- the black keys

twloha: “True Things”JJ Heller “I’m not the things I lack.” I...

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:05:30 -0400

twloha:

“True Things”
JJ Heller

“I’m not the things I lack.”

I don’t know about you, but I spent the better part of my early 20s feeling like I was missing something. Not like I forgot to put on socks that day—but like I was missing something that mattered.

Did I like the kind of music I was supposed to like? Did I dress the way I was supposed to dress? Was I allowed to like T.V. as much as I do? Should I have finished college? Should I be married already, and was it my fault that I wasn’t? (Maybe I should’ve just said yes when that guy asked me out… I mean, I hadn’t been asked out in a while, maybe that was my shot and I blew it?) Was I supposed to be ready to settle down and have a family? That’s what everyone around me was doing; perhaps I needed to get with the program. I spent (read: “wasted”) a lot of my time worrying I was lacking something.

“I’m not my scars and my history.”

We allow a lot of things to define us. Personally, I’ve caught myself defining who I am based on my circumstances. Which is the silliest thing because, really, circumstances change all the time. When you’re stuck in a tunnel, it can be easy to forget that eventually there will be light. When you’re struggling with life, it’s hard to keep perspective and remember the only constant is change, and things are often temporary. And when you fail at something, it’s tempting to just assume you’re a failure.

But you are more than your scars. Your history doesn’t define you. They hold only as much power as you give them. Choose today to see yourself through a different lens and start listening to that voice that’s been buried for so long. That voice that tells you that you deserve so many things, and all of them start and end with joy.

“In Your love, I’m waking up. There are true things inside of me I have been afraid to see”

For so long, I put myself in this little shoebox labeled “Lauren.” All of my personality traits, likes, dislikes, hopes, dreams, plans, and gifts were contained in there. And if it wasn’t in the box, it didn’t exist. Not for Lauren. Most of the things in that box had been put there by the words of others and by mistakes I had made along the way—and the options in the box were fairly limited.

Then something amazing happened. Someone loved me, and I really let myself feel that love. I let this person love me and tell me things about how they saw me, and I began to trust them with the deepest secrets of my heart. I let air get into the places I closed off long ago, and suddenly I was being healed.

“I am loved, and I am free.”

I heard something this week that gave me goose bumps because of how true it is: “Courage comes from a heart that knows it’s loved.” It’s been terrifying to let someone get that close, but it’s because of this love that I’ve allowed myself to think outside the box. I began to let myself have new dreams and consider a different path for my life.

Please hear this: You are loved. You are loved more than you know, and you are more than you think, beloved. There are so many things on the road ahead of you. Take courage and know that you don’t walk that road alone.

—Lauren

The World’s Most Wonderful Bookstores!

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:17:26 -0400

thepersonificationofperfection:

Poplar Kid’s Republic

Beijing

Livraria Lello

Porto, Portugal

Shakespeare & Co. Antiquarian Books

Paris

El Péndulo

Mexico City

Selexyz Bookstore

Maastricht, Holland

Cook and Book

Brussels, Belgium

El Ateneo Grand Splendid

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ler Devagar

Lisbon, Portuga

OH MY

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Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:57:38 -0400

twitterversecrazies: Cillian reads. Link here. Same group he...

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:41:43 -0400

twitterversecrazies:

Cillian reads. Link here.

Same group he did this for (gif courtesy infinitestarecase)

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

When You Are Old

When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face among a crowd of stars.

I almost cried

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Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:41:12 -0400

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Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:08:22 -0400

Waiting for Shakespeare In the Park tickets w/ @smilekat101...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:27:49 -0400

Waiting for Shakespeare In the Park tickets w/ @smilekat101 #sodarkthatthestreetlampsareon #gettingsoaked (Taken with Instagram)

The Hives at Terminal 5 😄 (Taken with Instagram)

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:27:45 -0400

The Hives at Terminal 5 😄 (Taken with Instagram)

fromlaboratories: This is what Call Me Maybe meant to do.

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:02:08 -0400

fromlaboratories:

This is what Call Me Maybe meant to do.

Did some light painting over the weekend with my friends! I need...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:18:15 -0400

Did some light painting over the weekend with my friends! I need to practice…lol

yummyvegan: Vegan French Toast with raspberry coulis. Photo via...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:26:47 -0400

yummyvegan:

Vegan French Toast with raspberry coulis. Photo via veganmenu.blogspot. Unfortunately, no recipe. If you have one, submit it & i’ll post via edit.

<3

for becca : )

thedailywhat: Movie Trailer of the Day: Emma Watson’s first...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:38:29 -0400

thedailywhat:

Movie Trailer of the Day: Emma Watson’s first post-Hogwarts leading role comes in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which author Stephen Chbosky himself adapted for the big screen. The coming-of-age story, also starring Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller, is out September 14.

[mtv]

i….THERE ARE NO WORDS

Pretty much 3 of the 10 people I like the most 😊 (Taken with...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:01:49 -0400

Pretty much 3 of the 10 people I like the most 😊 (Taken with Instagram at Henry Street Ale House)

Last Night in Cali: Smores and Sparklers 😊 (Taken with...

Thu, 31 May 2012 01:49:15 -0400

Last Night in Cali: Smores and Sparklers 😊 (Taken with instagram)

I’m “officially” a skateboarder! Haha complete...

Wed, 30 May 2012 15:59:05 -0400

I’m “officially” a skateboarder! Haha complete with Purple Vans of course 😊 (Taken with Instagram at Sacramento)

Battleship at The Drive-in for only $5! Okay California, I...

Wed, 30 May 2012 02:12:02 -0400

Battleship at The Drive-in for only $5! Okay California, I officially ❤ you (Taken with Instagram at West Wind Sacramento 6 Drive-In)