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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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“If there is ever a day when you feel tired of saying ‘good for them’ and you’re wondering when things will be good for you, take heart with great hope, and consider all the things this season of growing will lead into. Like an ocean that awaits many miles away, you may not be there yet, but you are surely on your way. So take your time while you are journeying, travel light, be safe. For there will come a time when you finally arrive on the shores and you will be so glad you did not settle. You will be so glad you did not give up. You will be so glad you did not sync yourself to someone else’s pace and chose instead to anchor yourself in the steady rhythm of grace. And after everything you went through, you arrived where you needed to be on time, and everything will be fine. Not perfect, but fine. Every beautiful thing will happen in its time.”
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~ Morgan Harper Nichols : 📷 David Sims

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“I sometimes prefer
All in-betweens.
Autumn, the open road,
Gazing out at the sky
Out of an aeroplane window.
The anticipation, the unknown,
The land on the other side,
The momentum, the magic,
The transition,
And the run before the rise.
Know that the journey
Is often more beautiful
Than the landing,
As the slow build of water
Is the best part of the waves and tides.
Do let the voyage sweetly unfold.
There’s no need to rush the destination
As rushing these sorts of things
Is so sadly overrated.
Carry on. Be with this path.
Explore your current space.
Flow.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Unknown

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“Isn’t it funny all the places
Our feet can take us?
From leaves to sand,
Snow to puddles
Asphalt to the dirt roads of our youth.
Isn’t it funny how they can sometimes
Keep going forward
When all we want to do is sit?
Have the courage
To follow your feet
Because you never know,
They might be leading you
Exactly where you need to go,
Exactly to the person
You need to go to.”
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~ Tyler Knott Gregson : 📷 Stephan Lisowski

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“We tend to think animals are lower than us, but all the scientists in the world couldn’t design and operate a bumblebee’s wing. We can’t jump or run very fast, and we can’t carry vast weights like an ant can. We can’t see in the dark and we can’t fly except crammed in a noisy tube like sardines, which doesn’t count. Humans compared to animals are almost totally deaf. We are finite and separate, and neurotic, while the consciousness of an animal is at peace and eternal. We strive and go crazy to become more important. Animals rest and sleep and enjoy the company of each other. We think we have evolved upwards from animals, but we have lost almost all of their qualities and abilities. The idea that animals don’t have consciousness or that they don’t have a soul is rather crass. It shows a lack of consciousness. They talk, they have families, they feel things, they act individually or together to solve problems, they often take care of their young as a tribal unit. They play, they travel, and medicate themselves when they get sick. They cry when others in the herd die, they know about us humans. Of course they have a soul, a very pristine one. We humans are only now attempting with the recent rise in consciousness to achieve the soul that animals have naturally.”
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~ Stuart Wilde : 📷 Michael Poliza

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“Let’s just sit quietly
And listen to the secrets
The rain wants to tell us.“
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~ John Mark Green : 📷 Unknown

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“Be the person who cares. Be the person who makes the effort, the person who loves without hesitation. Be the person who bears it all, the person who never shies away from the depth of their feeling, or the intensity of their hope. Be the person who believes - in the softness of the world, in the goodness of other people, in the beauty of being open and untethered and trusting. Be the person who takes the chance, who refuses to hide. Be the person who makes people feel seen, the person who shows up. Trust me when I say - be the person who cares. Because the world doesn’t need any more carelessness, any more disregard; because there is nothing stronger than someone who continues to stay soft in a world that hasn’t always been kind to them.”
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~ Bianca Sparacino : 📷 Paolo Roversi
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A slow return to posting after my holiday due to a wish to immerse myself fully in the experience surrounding the passing of Her Majesty the Queen. In a world where people strive to be acknowledged for their achievements, how beautiful that the one person to be loved and admired universally has shown us the true power of a smile, and the lasting impact of caring and kindness.

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“We spend too
Much time in
Our heads.
Analysing.
Wondering.
Asking.
Planning.
Stop.
Come back to
Here, now.
Where I am,
It’s mid afternoon
In late summer.
The sunlight
Is flooding the
Grass and ground.
It feels still.
And that’s all
There is for now.
And all is well.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 The Dreslyn
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Beautiful late summer - the season with that special gentle light. The time has arrived for me to stop and I shall soon be off to spend my favourite time of year in the West Country. I shall resume posting again mid September. I wish you all a wonderful couple of weeks and a very happy Bank Holiday to everyone here in the UK.
With much love Sarah 🤍xx

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