birthday weekend

 

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Celebrated with seaweed soup 미역국 and pointe shoes. Here’s to another year with more watercolour paintings and deeper stretches.

If there’s one thing this past year has taught me, it’s that time moves far too quick not to prioritise the people, hobbies, moments and dreams that bring you joy, love and peace of mind. And that it doesn’t matter, not even a little bit, what other people think about what those things are for you or how you do them – you’re the one that gets to live with your choices. ♥

mid-April mood-board

It’s funny, but I like being “pink and helpless” – when I know I seem that way, I feel terribly competent – and superior. I keep thinking, “Now those men think I’m purely decorative, and they’re just fools for not knowing better” – and I love being rather unfathomable. – Zelda Fitzgerald, from a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, May 1919

Even before it became officially so in the United States, April has long been the poet’s month. “April” (or “Aprill”) is the third word of one of the first great poems in the English language, The Canterbury Tales, and the first word in The Waste Land, which does its best to feel like the last great English poem. April — “spungy,” “proud-pied,” and “well-apparel’d” April — is also the most-mentioned month in Shakespeare, along with its springtime neighbor May, and it has given a poetic subject to Dickinson, Larkin, Plath, Glück, and countless others. Why? Do we like its promise of rebirth, its green and messy fecundity? Its hopefulness is easy to celebrate — and easy to cruelly undercut, if you’re T.S. Eliot rooting his lilies in the wasteland of death. – Tom Nissley, “April Books: A Reading List for Rebirth and Taxes”


♥ ♥ ♥ ON REPEAT: “West Coast,” Lana Del Rey’s new single from her upcoming album Ultraviolence ♥ ♥ ♥

beginning of April

monday mood-board

songs on repeat:
Miley Cyrus’s cover of ‘Summertime Sadness’ by Lana Del Rey
Tennis Court – Lorde
Do I Wanna Know – Arctic Monkeys
This is the Last Time (live) – The National


“It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.” – Sofia Coppola, trying to explain what Lost In Translation is about