Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Photographs taken at MISO DI RISO, BIO BISTRO, Vegetarian, Vegan, macrobiotic restruant Borgo degli 54r Firenze (FLORENCE)
there should be a two-year period after high school where it is socially expected that kids not work, or go to school or do anything but take road trips, read books, meet new people and take lots of pictures..
-via withshoeslikethat
what a wondrous ‘une période de transition’ from adolescence to adulthood and learning about one’s self.
“There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who
has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
walking the streets of paris, going nowhere in particular
artist painting by the river seine
parlez-vous français?
un peu
we are friends then?
Il n’y a que deux endroits au monde où l’on puisse vivre heureux: chez soi et à Paris.
There are only two places in the world where we can live happy, at home and in Paris
HEMINGWAY
picture borrowed from glamorousmonk.com
will you love me in
december
as you did in may?
-kerouac
sometimes we find ourselves so busy in our routines that we forget to be spontaneous and can miss the magic that is always out there just waiting for us, to pause long enough to simply notice. On this day we did just that, we noticed, stopped, and said hello.
beneath the one who is busy
is the one who is not busy
-buddhist teachings
as the shadow follows the body
as we think so, we become
-buddhist teachings
the only true wisdom is in the knowing that you know nothing
-socrates
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life
― Picasso
Every now and again life can temporally turn you up side down. We are in a moment like that now. There seems to be a few things that i do during these moments, without much thought. Maybe unconsciously thats what Im needing to do. Most of the time I renovate or change something, make something new, leaving behind our world for a while. Fortunatly we have an old house with plenty of spaces to do this to. My latest creation is a kitchen wall. I painted it with chalkboard paint on a spur of the moment thing. I was only really intending to put a fresh coat on our babies chalk board and well just kept going. Surprisingly it’s turned out well. I added an old plank of wood as a shelf and filled a few wine bottles with olive oil. I feel better.
‘These woods are lovely,dark
and deep,
But i have promises to keep,
And miles to go before i sleep,
And miles to go before i sleep.
ROBERT FROST
There simply isn’t any time to crawl up into bed and sleep life away for a while, children are a blessing like that, i guess. They keep you moving, focused and in the moment and always on them; if it were to be any other way, i quite possibly might not get out of bed on this day.
“And you’ll always love me
won’t you?
Yes
And the rain won’t make any
difference?
No
Ernest Hemingway
may our feet be strong enough to carry the weight of life.. let our hands remain open like our hearts
St GEORGIA & Boo 