Beautiful things

"'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word"

2010-07-28T09:33:00.000-07:00

I will love you

2010-07-24T15:54:00.001-07:00

Scrapbooking

2010-07-24T03:04:00.001-07:00

The Book Thief

2010-07-24T02:49:00.000-07:00

"People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them."

- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Atmosphere

2010-07-22T17:44:00.000-07:00

Source

The Poisonwood Bible

2010-07-22T10:03:00.000-07:00

"Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow."

- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

If nobody speaks of remarkable things

2010-07-22T10:02:00.000-07:00

"You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?"

- Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

The prettiest butterfly.

2010-07-18T02:36:00.000-07:00

Show the world your colorful wings

The dark side of tetris

2010-07-17T11:04:00.001-07:00

2010-07-15T06:38:00.000-07:00

“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist”

- Edgar Allen Poe

Violence breeds violence

2010-07-13T23:13:00.000-07:00

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

Life, I love you

2010-07-13T17:04:00.000-07:00

"Hello lampost, how you glowing?
I've come to watch your power flowing...
Ain't you got no rhymes for me?
Life I love you, all is groovy"

But if you try some times...

2010-07-13T17:00:00.000-07:00

Freedom

2010-07-13T08:30:00.000-07:00

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
- Albert Camus

Anything can be

2010-07-13T08:28:00.000-07:00

Relaxing sounds

2010-07-13T05:58:00.000-07:00

Rainy moods [link]

Unquote

2010-07-13T03:37:00.000-07:00

“He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.” — Danish proverb

Locke was asked how he had contrived to accumulate a mine of knowledge so rich, yet so extensive and deep. He replied that he attributed what little he knew to the not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to the rule he had laid down of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics chiefly that formed their own particular profession and pursuits. The best-informed men are undoubtedly those who adopt this rule.

– The Leisure Hour, 1883

Futility Closet

Never Knowingly Undersold

2010-07-12T13:46:00.000-07:00

Somebody like you

2010-07-12T13:42:00.001-07:00

Acoustic sounds:

the original:

The mist over Beachy Head

2010-07-11T07:19:00.000-07:00

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."
- Aaron Rose

You're a part-time lover and a full-time friend

2010-07-11T06:58:00.000-07:00

Taken from
Mouldy Peaches : Anyone else but you

You're a part time lover and a full time friend
The monkey on your back is the latest trend
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you

I kiss you on the brain in the shadow of a train
I kiss you all starry eyed, my body's swinging from side to side
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you

Here is the church and here is the steeple
We sure are cute for two ugly people
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you

You are always trying to keep it real
I'm in love with how you feel
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you

We both have shiny happy fits of rage
You want more fans, I want more stage
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you

"I think this is something we need to be on the watch out for"

2010-07-11T06:51:00.000-07:00

"Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!”

This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise.

I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for."

Taken from Douglas Adams: Parrots, the universe and everything

You are free

2010-07-11T06:44:00.000-07:00

A little about this blog

2010-07-11T06:30:00.000-07:00

For a while I've been thinking that I should do something like this. I spend far too long online, and I discover things in my travels that I find beautiful or meaningful or just funny and interesting, and want to share with people - but don't want to spam all of these things on facebook, or think that some of my facebook 'friends' might not appreciate them.

And so, I decided this may be a good place to post things. There will be a combination of things - photographs, poetry, songs and lyrics, prose, cartoons - basically, anything I find that I like.

This is going to be very self-centred (and may well not even get read) but I thought it could be therapeutic for me to do something like this, to essentially scrapbook some of the lovely things I find.

Feedback/suggestions are more than welcome.

Enjoy.