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“Leave guilt on the floor
By your slippers and robe
Your worries may nestle there too
Let shame and embarrassment
Slip through the door
There’s no place for such things
Here with you.

Let memories of laughter
Words aimed to warm
Fill up any space in your head
Remember the smiles
Of the people you love
Let those treasures
Come with you to bed.

You did all you could
With the day that you had
You led with that heart full of love
You toil and you care
And that’s always enough
So release that dark load to above.

Now rest, close your eyes
Let your fears melt away
Give in to the slumber you crave
You are giving your all
To this cycle of life
Welcome dreams and
Await a new day.”
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~ Donna Ashworth : 📷 Unknown

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“Is tenderness
A practiced thing,
Hours of struggle
Before it falls into place?
Maybe it’s born in us,
And the practice comes
After the forgetting of it all,
Maybe It, like grace,
Gets lost and buried
Under time and ache
And regret and excuse.
Maybe It’s not practice we need,
But excavation.”
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~ Tyler Knott Gregson : 📷 Gregory Colbert
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There will be no post next Monday as I’ll be in Paris for the Easter Holidays.
I wish you all a beautiful Easter and many blessings for Holy Week.
With much love
Sarah 🐰🐣🌷xxx

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“At any time you can ask yourself: At which threshold am I now standing? At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter? What is preventing me from crossing my next threshold? What gift would enable me to do it? A threshold is not a simple boundary; it is a frontier that divides two different territories, rhythms and atmospheres. Indeed, it is a lovely testimony to the fullness and integrity of an experience or a stage of life that it intensifies toward the end into a real frontier that cannot be crossed without the heart being passionately engaged and woken up. At this threshold a great complexity of emotion comes alive: confusion, fear, excitement, sadness, hope. This is one of the reasons such vital crossings were always clothed in ritual. It is wise in your own life to be able to recognize and acknowledge the key thresholds: to take your time; to feel all the varieties of presence that accrue there; to listen inward with complete attention until you hear the inner voice calling you forward. The time has come to cross.”
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~ John O’Donohue : 📷 Unknown

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“When you’re hard on yourself because you think you should be doing or completing or achieving more, remember this: if all you do in this life is stay true to yourself, create meaningful connections, give people a safe place to land, cultivate your unique gifts and offer your wholehearted presence to every new experience that finds you —you’re doing so much more than you’ll ever realise. And if all you ever do is have one honest conversation each day. If all you ever do is show one person that they’re truly seen. If all you ever do is make someone laugh. If all you ever do is remain brave and open and curious and kind. If all you ever do is honour your beating heart. If all you ever do is sit with your pain and give yourself compassion and heal and keep healing over and over again. And if all you ever do is lean deeper into grace. If all you ever do is offer love and acceptance in rooms where it feels like there is none—then, I promise, you are doing so much more than you think.”
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~ Zanna Keithley : 📷 Unknown

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“Tears are a river
That takes you somewhere…
Tears lift your boat off the rocks,
Off dry ground,
Carrying it downriver
To someplace better.”
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~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés : 📷 Unknown

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“The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here that love gathers within you. Love is absolutely vital for a human life. For love alone can awaken what is divine within you. In love, you grow and come home to your self. When you learn to love and let yourself be loved, you come home to the hearth of your own spirit. You are warm and sheltered.”
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~ John O’Donohue : 📷 Unknown

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“Sometimes, healing consists of sitting in coffee shops and writing the years from your mind. Sometimes healing is laughing until you cry, it is kissing your friends faces and being moved and inspired by your life. And sometimes, healing is rest, it is hiding from the world, it is having everything inside of you be still and quiet and eerily bare. Sometimes healing feels like nothing at all, like you are a silhouette of hope and hurt at the same time. Do not fight it. Whatever your healing looks like today, whatever it consists of — just allow it to be what it is. Just take care of yourself.”
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~ Bianca Sparacino : 📷 Unknown

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“The Horse Year is not about waiting for the right moment. It’s about moving when the truth is clear. This is the year momentum returns. Where courage replaces hesitation. Where life responds when you choose direction. The Horse doesn’t stand still. It moves forward with purpose. And it takes you with it.”
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~ The Spiritual Magic : 📷 Unknown
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Chinese New Year of the Horse
February 17th 2026 - February 5th 2027
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Gong Xi Fa Cai 恭喜发财 🧧

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“I can be in my house for days
No soul to disturb my inner silence.
This silence is sacred and necessary.
My soul will arise from it with a loud roar.

It’s days like these that matter
Not for the world, but for me.
Days where I sit with myself and listen
Even if the sound is just a whisper
Its value is not measured in volume,
But in depth.”
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~ Ruxandra Tiple : 📷 Sylvia Salmi
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Coming soon:
Frida: The Making of an Icon
Tate Modern 25 June 2026 - 3 Jan 2027

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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