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“We tell ourselves stories
In order to live.
And it is worth pausing to ask:
Are the stories you are telling yourself
Nourishing you?
Are they brave?
Are they generous?
Do they allow for change, for growth,
For the breaking and remaking of the self?
If not, let them go and
Rewrite them with care.
You are the author, after all.”
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~ Joan Didion : 📷 Unknown
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Not quite a story but an interview in @theindustrybeauty
My heartfelt thanks to
@antonyhawman
@ana.stasia.maria
@daksha_c

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“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”
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~ Rachel Carson : 📷 Unknown

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“When you finally realise
That joy is less fireworks, more firefly
Less orchestra, more birdsong
She will come back much more often.

For joy will not fight with
The fast pace of this life
She is not in the shiny or the new.

She breathes in the basic,
Simmers in the simple and
Dances in the daily to-and-fro.

Joy has been beckoning you
For many a year my friend
You were just too busy doing, to see.

The very next time joy wraps
Her quiet warmth around you
As the garden embraces your
Weary body in its wildness.

Tip her a nod...
She doesn’t stay long
But if you are a gracious host
Joy comes back.”
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~ Donna Ashworth : 📷 Unknown

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“At the beginning of the day, I hope you can look up to the sky and let the rising sun remind you: you are worthy of new beginnings. And not only are you worthy of new beginnings, you are worthy of the process of easing into new beginnings. No matter how rushed the day feels, let there be room to ease into the day, in the same way the sun does.”
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~ Morgan Harper Nichols : 📷 Unknown
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Hello everyone,
I hope you have all had a wonderful festive season and my very best wishes for a happy and healthy 2026.
May there be ease and calmness as you navigate the beginning of another new year. Nature slumbers. There is no need to rush.
With love
Sarah 🤍xxx

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A blessing:

“May the sun shine upon you on the days where you need it most. And if it is not shining, may it come in the form of God and human and spirit and the most beautiful interactions.

May the road ahead of you always be ignited enough for you to find your way. But should you stumble, may your feet find solid ground again, even if you’re limping for a little while.

May the discoveries you make in each chapter of your life, serve as a testament to the growth that can happen when you feel at your most broken and vulnerable. May you count every step as a victory and every setback as an opportunity.

May those whose path you cross, be astounded by the measure of grace with which you carry yourself. May they always see something different radiating from your soul and may it be absolutely wildly contagious.

May there be lots of giving and gentle words and hunger for learning. May the distance between you and someone who is struggling always only be the length of an outstretched arm.

May your heart know the depths to which love can strengthen and save and empower and set aglow. And may every blessing you receive be a blessing that you give.”
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~ Ullie Kaye : 📷 Caspar Jade
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I am heading off for the holidays in a few days and shall return to this space in January.
I wish you all a beautiful Christmas and everything that is wonder filled for 2026.
Thank you so much for your amazing support for this account. It’s truly appreciated and I treasure all the connections.
Much love
Sarah 🎄🌟xxx

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“I will not take for granted,
The long roads I was given to walk
Because walking gave me courage
And courage is a gift to be carried
Along for a lifetime.

I will not take for granted,
Those words that came in whispers
And steadied my spirit
When I did not feel
An ounce of peace inside me

I will not take for granted,
The fierce stories of grandmothers and
The solemn teachings of grandfathers.
Or the ten thousand prayers
That were wept on my behalf.

I will not take for granted,
The friends who shone into me
When my own light grew thin.
Those who stayed
When things got hard and
Those who showed me that
There’s a time for everything -
Even walking away.

I will not take for granted,
The music, the birds
The flowers, the skies.
For when I could not find beauty,
They reached in and caused my heart
To pause with gratitude.

I will not take for granted,
That my soul is eternal and
The murmurs of my grief
Are only temporary.

I will not take for granted,
This one life.”
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~ Ullie Kaye : 📷 Unknown

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“Listen for guidance
Among the trees,
Dried leaves fragrant underfoot.
Listen to the crows and finches,
To the whistle of wind
Through pine needles.
Most of all, listen to
The whispers of your soul
And the knowing in your bones.
When your inner compass points
In a new direction, dare to follow.
In the stillness of meditation
Or the tumult of the day,
Listen for what’s next.
Truth will come in many
Ways and contexts.
Listen - - and begin.”
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~ Danna Faulds : 📷 Unknown

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“It is said that before entering the sea, a river trembles with fear.

She looks back at the path she has travelled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages.

And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.

But there is no other way.
The river cannot go back.

Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.

The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.”
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~ Kahil Gibran : 📷 Caspar Jade

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“The secret of all belonging is to somehow learn to belong to yourself first. If you are not able to be at home in your own life then no matter where you are, with whom you are, or what you are doing there will always be a massive ravine of emptiness between you and everything.

There is some lovely way in which it is given to each individual to create the rest of their own belonging in their own hearts and minds and I often think that our souls are always artistically active in trying to shape forms of belonging in which we can truly rest and from which our deepest possibilities can be challenged and awakened.”
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~ John O’Donohue
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Image of Anouk Aimée from the film “Les Amants de Montparnasse” by Jacques Becker

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“You keep asking for a sign to keep going; not realizing that your hunger for one is the sign. That the ache to believe, despite having no reason to, is the belief. You think doubt means you’re off track, but doubt is part of devotion. If it didn’t matter to you, you wouldn’t question it so much. If it wasn’t real, you wouldn’t be this afraid to lose it. Most people stop right here; in the uncertainty, in the in-between, in the part that feels like nothing’s working. But the fact that you’re still here, still searching, still yearning for a way forward, that means something. This is the way forward. You are the only bridge between what doesn’t exist and what someday will.”
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~ Nelly Maré : 📷 Unknown

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Stillness is vital to the world of the soul. If as you age you become more still, you will discover that stillness can be a great companion. The fragments of your life will have time to unify, and the places where your soul-shelter is wounded or broken will have time to knit and heal. You will be able to return to yourself. In this stillness, you will engage your soul. Many people miss out on themselves completely as they journey through life. They know others, they know places, they know skills, they know their work, but tragically, they do not know themselves at all. Ageing can be a lovely time of ripening when you actually meet yourself, indeed maybe for the first time.
There are beautiful lines from T. S. Eliot that say:
‘And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.’
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~ John O’Donohue : 📷 Edu Garcia

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“I will cut adrift
I will sit on pavements
And drink coffee
I will dream;
I will take my mind
Out of its iron cage
And let it swim
This fine October.”
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~ Virginia Woolf : 📷 Unknown