dust if you must

Dust if you must, but wouldn’t it be better

To paint a picture, or write a letter,

Bake a cake, or plant a seed;

Ponder the difference between want and need?

Dust if you must, but there’s not much time,

With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb;

Music to hear, and books to read;

Friends to cherish, and life to lead.

Dust if you must, but the world’s out there

With the sun in your eyes, and the wind in your hair;

A flutter of snow, a shower of rain,

This day will not come around again.

Dust if you must, but bear in mind,

Old age will come and it’s not kind.

And when you go (and go you must)

You, yourself, will make more dust.

— by Rose Milligan

newly-discovered favourite YouTube channels 

♥ Wendy Outdoors

♥ Baylie Fortier

♥ Julia Christina

♥ Anna Howard

♥ Ruby Granger

girl dinner & snack plate inspiration

black cats as faeries

 

songs on repeat

Damocles — Sleep Token
Cry Cry Cry — King Princess
Kingdom Dance — Alan Mencken
Fantastic (Demo Version) — King Princess

why not now go toward the things I love?

 

Myrna and Flowers, c. 1920s Scanned from Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming by kylarose

by Tatyana Yuganova

a few poems i’ve loved recently

• Grief Work by Natalie Díaz
• The Two-headed Calf by Laura Gilpin
• Everything by Mary Oliver
• The Moths by Mary Oliver

a summer moodboard made from pinterest photos

she did want to live and always had

“But North did not break his stride. ‘The current claims us all in the end,’ he called without turning. ‘If you want to live, you have to fight.’
[…]

The sky had gone dark. She couldn’t see the shore any longer, wasn’t even sure she was swimming in the right direction. If you want to live.

And wasn’t that the worst of it? She did. She did want to live and always had.” 

—Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo

 

♥ I love Millie’s Pottery – these Twilight mugs are a dream come true!

♥ Tammy Dinh has the most relaxing vlogs and cutest polymer clay creations

“I know what happens next. He’s going to deliver the final blow. Lopping off my head. Stabbing through my heart. The strike that’s a kindness, really. After all, who wants to die slowly when you can die fast?

Me.

I don't want to die fast. I don’t want to die at all.”
—Queen of Nothing, Holly Black

Sunday low energy mood

 

This is my favourite iteration of the lo-fi girl. I could live in this image with this music all the time.

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I love cooking reels, especially as I haven’t been doing a lot of cooking lately! The windowsill, plant, and dolsot pot are a dreamy combination.

favourite YouTube channels

☁ Tirion Law is a second soloist with the National Ballet of Canada and I love the behind-the-scenes look at her life.

☁ cari cakes reminds me of someone I could’ve befriended on LiveJournal when I was in high school who has gone on to live a beautiful bookworm life in Seoul.

☁ Kathryn Morgan is a blessing. Who else is putting ballet barres that good on the Internet for free??

☁ Michelle Choi is a forever favourite; her two most recent vlogs were absolute gold.

latest roll of film

 

There’s something uniquely beautiful about picking an old hobby back up where you left off to find that no matter how your life has changed, it still feels the same.

“‘Finding yourself’ is not really how it works. You aren’t a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people’s opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. ‘Finding yourself’ is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you.” 

 – Emily McDowell