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“Sometimes the people with the greatest potential often take the longest to find their path because their sensitivity is a double edged sword - it lives at the heart of their brilliance, but also makes them susceptible to life’s pains. Good thing we aren’t being penalised for handing in our purpose late. The soul doesn’t know a thing about deadlines.”
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~ Jeff Brown : 📷 Unknown

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“A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretence and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.”
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~ Maya Angelou : 📷 Fritz Henle

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“So many feel lethargic,
Unmotivated or worn out
In this hemisphere.
We are really not made
To rocket straight
Through winter,
Ablaze with energy.
Look at nature.
The ground and plants
And animals
Are deep at rest.
This is the natural
Way of things.
Spend some time
With the long nights,
The moon, solitude,
The bare earth, stillness.
Be easier on yourself.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Colin Varndell

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“You’re going to realise it one day – that happiness was never about your job, or your degree, or being in a relationship. Happiness was never about following in the footsteps of all of those who came before you, it was never about being like the others. One day, you’re going to see it – that happiness was always about the discovery, the hope, the listening to your heart and following it wherever it chose to go. Happiness was always about being kinder to yourself, it was always about embracing the person you were becoming. One day, you will understand. That happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself, that happiness was never in the hands of other people. It was always about you….it was always about you.”
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~ Bianca Sparacino : 📷 Ode to Sunday

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“I wish I could tell you everything was beautiful about starting over. I wish I could tell you January the 1st was going to be the most perfect new beginning. I wish I could tell you that you were going to get the phone call you were waiting for and that you were going to get that knock on your door that finally made you think, ‘all of the waiting was worth it.’ But I cannot tell you that. So, I will tell you this: you are still free to delight in the small joys of literal horizons, that fine line between earth and sky, holding space for the morning sunrise. You are free to notice every hint of orange, pink, yellow and gold expanding like Promise over the barren, rugged landscape that are holding your gaze. Let the unapologetic glow of the rising sun remind you of all you have overcome, all that is behind you, before you, and how glorious it is that Light is still pouring through. May you see every sunrise for the elaborate feast of new beginnings that it is, and dig in.”
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~ Morgan Harper Nichols : 📷 Unknown

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“As with rosy steps the morn
Advancing, drives the shades of night,
So from virtuous toils well-borne,
Raise Thou our hopes of endless light.
Triumphant saviour, Lord of day,
Thou art the life, the light, the way!”
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~ Thomas Morell : 📷 Kent Shiraishi
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These words come from Irene’s exquisite aria sung in Act 1 of Handel’s dramatic oratorio ‘Theodora’ as she attempts to instil her fellow Christians with courage in the face of religious persecution. (Classical music enthusiasts might enjoy listening to mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s legendary rendition on her 2006 album Handel Arias).
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With the Winter Solstice approaching, our thoughts turn to the great Light as we reflect on the Solstice’s significance - the symbolic death and rebirth of the sun. After passing through the shortest period of daylight and the longest night, we begin to see the light-filled days starting to return. We need not lose hope. Darkness does not last forever. This is the order of the world.
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This shall be my last Monday post of the year and I shall resume again in January. My heartfelt thanks to all of you for your beautiful presence here. I truly treasure our connection. You have been so incredibly generous with your likes, lovely comments, and sharing of posts via your stories. It gives me such delight to hear when a post arrives at the perfect moment for someone. Trust me when I say that sometimes it seems as if the posts form themselves, as well as finding their own divine timing. To those who follow from private accounts, please know that your appreciation doesn’t go unseen and I’m very grateful for your continued support.
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Finally I would like to wish all of you every happiness this festive season. A very merry Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year.
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With much love
Sarah ✨xxx

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“I expect I shall feel better after tea.”
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~ P. G. Wodehouse : 📷 Rodney Smith

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“Don’t dismiss the elements.
Water soothes and heals.
Air refreshes and revives.
Earth grounds and holds.
Fire is a burning reminder
Of our own will and creative power.
Breathe them in.
Swallow their spells.
There’s a certain sweet comfort
In knowing that you belong to them all.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Gleb Derujinksky

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“In a world where so much is expected of you, one of the most important lessons you’ll ever learn is that growing up doesn’t mean leaving behind who you are - that acting your age doesn’t mean letting go of your youth.
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The truth is, you’re never too old to dance in the rain until your skin turns blue. To ride a bicycle through the night with the wind on your face and all of your troubles long behind you.
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You’re never too old to blast the volume on your favourite song. To mark your name into the wet concrete on the sidewalk just because you want the world to remember you were here.
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You’re never too old to run away from home. To put down all that is expected of you and wander lightly into the wild unknown. You are never too old to rediscover yourself. Dream and hope like anything is possible. It is.
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You’re never too old to make love like it is for the very first time. Full of nerves and clumsy laughter, and hands that don’t know what to do with themselves. You are never too old to take a chance. To be as reckless and bold as you were with your heart before years of rejection left you cynical and cautious.
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You are never too old to reach out for help. To fall apart gently in the arms of a friend. To hold onto your mother like she is the last thing anchoring you here to the earth.
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You’re never too old to remain young at heart. While maturity may bring you wisdom and strength, it is the playful, curious child in you that makes the world magic - that makes a life enchanting and worth living at all.”
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~ Beau Taplin : 📷 Tony Cunha
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Beatrice Wood was an American artist who although deeply spiritual, was renowned for her lightness of being. She had the wonderful ability not to take everything so seriously, possessing a huge capacity to laugh and enjoy life. When asked about the secret of her longevity - she lived until 105 years old - she would often say “I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.”

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“Do not seek the answers. You do not need to know what happens next, you do not require a step-by-step account on how to achieve meaning in this unpredictable world. Think about past moments that you took your breath away. They were unwarranted, they surprised you. Think about all the unexpected beauty you stumbled upon while you were simply living, while you were simply making it up as you went along. Choose that over the answers. Choose the lump in the back of your throat the first time you made someone a home in your heart. Choose the nervous energy that tucked itself within your chest when you got lost in a new city. Choose uncertainty, choose discomfort, and in doing so, choose the freedom to make mistakes, to start again, to discover with childlike wonder how you want to exist. Be deeply curious with your life. Be uncontained. Burn for what you love.”
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~ Bianca Sparacino
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Image of Georgia O’Keeffe on Ghost Ranch Roof who said:
“To create one’s own world takes courage”

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“The things we create,
The things we make
And dream up
And invent
And are inspired to write
Or photograph or build
Or sculpt or paint,
They make us.
They are the sticks
And the stones
And the resin and the clay
That shape us
Into the people
We become.”
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~ Tyler Knott Gregson : 📷 David Attie
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Lenore Tawney, pictured in her New York studio, was an American artist who worked primarily with fibre, but also in drawings, collages and assemblages. She is often credited with transforming the beauty of weaving into the contemporary medium known as fibre art, incorporating Zen philosophies and spiritual questions along the way. Katharine Kuh wrote of her art “In all Tawney’s work, the past confronts the present, the East the West, the mundane the visionary; but more often it is the visionary that predominates.”

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“The secret is to never lose sight of the simple, every day miracles in life. Good food, literature, laughter, music, compelling conversation, nature and art. Look for them in every day, and even when it feels like your whole world is unravelling, you will never be too far from a needle and thread.“
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~ Beau Taplin : 📷 Hermann Landshoff
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Model in front of “The Big Glass” by Marcel Duchamp, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1954

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