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

retrouvailles

 a weekend moodboard 

So much has changed since I was here last (and so many images look like this ). Time to rebuild.
Sometimes you end up right back where you started. I’m still the girl I was in 2011 – maybe more like her than ever.

Monday moodboard

   

“Some writing doesn’t brush up against sentimentality as often as other writing. But whatever ‘bad’ edge your writing brushes up against, I think it’s important to touch it. You can always pull back from it, but at least you know where it is. It’s like when I was a dancer, we were always encouraged to fall in rehearsal, so that you could know what the tipping point of any given movement was. That way, when you did it on the stage, you could be sure you were taking it to the edge without falling on your face. It sounds like a cliché, but really it’s just physics—if you don’t touch the fulcrum, you’ll never gain a felt sense of it, and your movement will be impoverished for it.” 
– Maggie Nelson, in response to ‘Is it important to risk sentimentality?’ in an interview with Genevieve Hudson

“The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.”
 – Tobias Wolff, from “Class Picture,” The New Yorker (6 January 2003)

“I guess my strongest recurring theme is honouring love even when it’s lost, and... staying hopeful and soft even when things get really difficult and hard.”
– Lana Del Rey, in response to ‘What are your recurring obsessions as a songwriter?’

interpol – tidal wave
lana del rey – video games (live at glastonbury)
lana del rey – yayo (rainy mood)
the xx – sunset
the 1975 – robbers (acoustic)
arctic monkeys – love is a laserquest
dawn richard – dark horse (katy perry cover)
lana del rey/jessica lange – gods and monsters (mashup)
the echo friendly – same mistakes
bleachers – i wanna get better
lorde – yellow flicker beat
lana del rey – ultraviolence (live)