Mmm. Can you guess what kind of deliciousness this is going to turn into? #MyFavorite (Taken with instagram)
"I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder."
— Zelda Fitzgerald (via thatkindofwoman)
(Source: sweetannasour, via thatkindofwoman)
I just started this book I’ve been meaning to read for awhile. How to Be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson. I appreciate the mindset of learning to slow down and be happy. Happy with less, and happy doing less. Learning to enjoy the moment with what you have and with who you’re with. Because life shouldn’t be about the endless pursuit of attaining the bigger and “better” in an effort to impress others or ourselves; toiling away doing something you hate only to stress and obsess about what you don’t have, what you think you need to be happy, and how you’re going to get it. For some this is fulfilling (is it really?), but for others it’s empty obligations built on someone else’s dreams.
Not everyone has the luxury of quitting their day job and loafing about. Which isn’t entirely what this book suggests you do. But it asks you to question the real cause of working 60-80hrs a week, why people live outside their financial means in order to drive luxury cars and live in 4,000 square foot homes. Now if you can have all that by working 40hrs a week at a job you love then so be it. But that’s not generally the case. And that’s not luxury to me.
If we had lesser ambitions maybe we’d have fuller happier lives? Perhaps. I would. I don’t live to work. I work to live. And I’d rather be able to spend my free time enjoying my life than worrying about unnecessary problems I’ve created out of material desire. I think less really is more in this case. Now I could go on for seemingly forever waxing romantic about a simpler life but I’ll spare you. One day I’ll get there, I know I will, and it won’t be after retirement. I seek the simpler moment now. And will be mindful of how my decisions effect my pursuit of it.
P.S. If you need me, I’ll be in my hammock.
"Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it."
— C. Assaad (via modernhepburn)
(Source: pigcharmer, via modernhepburn)
The Lumineers at Radio Radio in Indianapolis last night put on a glorious show. The band and the crowd sang their hearts out. They came out in the audience and played on the tables. I adore this venue, and this band. I like seeing a band like this in a smaller more intimate setting before they get too big and you loose some of that connection with the crowd. This was a show to remember, and they were pretty spectacular.
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Penny & the Quarters // You & Me
The movie Blue Valentine introduced me to this. And I can’t believe I lived so long without it.
