After an blog glitch making her comment disappear into the ether. Robyn from Elder Park Book Reviews said the following which I found very moving and wanted to add here: ‘A good friend of mine turned me on to Murakami …
Tag: life
#SexySnippet
#SexySnippets 4th Oct 2014 Every weekend, a group of us sign up at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s mine for the week again from Lily and the Mechanic. It’s a historical …
The role of Beauty
Thomas Dodd is a photographic artist and his current collection is called All Bodies Are Beautiful. I was attracted to his work a couple of years ago. He expresses the feminine so powerfully and uses mythic and symbolic imagery. I like …
Random Musings
What is it about this dark underbelly of emotion that gets me every time? I love slipping on my gumboots and rugging up to go out into this landscape. I think wandering into the areas of love, romance, heartbreak, loss, hope, …
The Four Chambers of The Heart ~ Part 1.
I fell from a hole in my heart And you caught me. A wounded woman, perhaps even broken. You were right where I needed you to be, Under the sky as I came plummeting down. You pulled me so …
Esmerelda
Poor me, She fell beneath the wheels to help me up. This song and its clip has really started to haunt me. The music is very moody and I am a sucker for moody stuff for sure. But what really hooked …
Escher Creating the “Snakes” Woodcut
This is worth a watch, only about 2 minutes long and shows the stages that Escher went through to create “Snakes”. My experience of his work tends to be contemplative. He is very successful at getting us to look at something …
#MySexySaturday & #SexySnippet
#MySexySaturday 20th September & #SexySnippets 21st September 2014 Every weekend, a group of us sign up at My Sexy Saturday and some of us at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s …
The Four Chambers of the Heart – Part 3.
But getting back to you. I sometimes think you deserved a simpler, happier soul than me. People who have broken so many of their hearts Have such a different kind of love to give. It is often more compassionate I’ll …
Ben Howard
Keep your head up, keep your heart strong.
You are not alone.
‘We all break in different ways.’ © Elsa Holland
The Poet
“A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.” —Stanley Kunitz
#MySexySaturday & #SexySnippet
#MySexySaturday 13th September & #SexySnippets 14th September 2014 Every weekend, a group of us sign up at My Sexy Saturday and some of us at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s …
Pocket of Love
There is a pocket of love in the air above an open flower. It reaches out with invisible fingers and draws us in. The kiss is so soft, so tender it is experienced only as the heady scent of its …
Thoughts on a quote by David Foster Wallace
Hmmm…. This quote has so much appeal. I wondered about that, why it rang so true for me and many others. Personally I think it speaks to the dilemma that in highly emotional situations you never …
#MySexySaturday & #SexySnippet
#MySexySaturday 6th September & #SexySnippets 7th September 2014 Every weekend, a group of us sign up at My Sexy Saturday and some of us at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s …
Chocolate and young men
Beatrice Wood lived until she was 105 and was an active potter through her 90’s. When asked what her secret was she said “I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.” Those things which inspires us and make …
What kind of bird are YOU?
From the movie about eccentric young love: Moonrise Kingdom