1. A site that I'm loving at the moment. We heart it! An absolutely fantastic site. You can find so many wonderful images and works of poetry. I've been spending hours (hours that should probably have been spent of my university homework) trawling through this site finding some beautiful images. Here are a few I've stumbled across:
2. This fantastically funny TV show I found on iTunes. Bored to Death. I love it! I love it! I love it! It's something completely unique and utterly entertaining. Anything I write about it would quite possibly misrepresent it so just look at this clip (or better yet download an episode!):
4. The full-stop amazing band of City and Colour! I own and listen to a myriad of music on my iTouch but the best playlists always have lots of City and Colour songs. I just love the simplicity of the music and Dallas Green's voice can just transport me to another place. So whenever I'm having a truly horrifying day I just crank up the volume and just let my troubles float away on the acoustic guitar lick. Check out this clip of two of my favorite songs (and while you're at it check out his tats - beautiful!) :
5. Words of poetry which sing to me, inspire me and comfort me. I lie back into the cushiony softness of words and I am restored. With all the exceptional poems out there it's hard to settle on one... But the one that sings loudest to me in my current hour of need are the overwhelming words of Wordworth. And so I give you...
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on a high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way.
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company;
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is that bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
~ William Wordsworth
And I leave this post happier than when I begun...
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on a high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way.
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company;
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is that bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
~ William Wordsworth
And I leave this post happier than when I begun...
A friend once said to me that she thought God had favorites. I said to her: "Y'know...I think He does. And it's those people to whom He entrusts difficult times so that they may see a broader and deeper dimension to life that others miss." I'm thinking you just might be one of His favorites.
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