below a thousand degrees
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Clouds
"So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there
that the sky and sea looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea"
~Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Friday, August 19, 2016
Thursday, August 18, 2016
5 Years Ago
Ruminating the prompt 5 years ago, I knew exactly where I was in my life at that time.
As I lie on the sofa, taking a break from the day, I scrolled through timehop for photographic evidence of who I was 5 years ago, and there it was, me in all my 5 years ago contentedness, though I remember now that was not the truth.
5 years later, so much loss, tragedy, change, and grief. I existed through many of those days merely longing for sleep and the chance to start again another day. When I look at my reflection in the mirror, it appears that those 5 years were more likely 10 or 15, never 5.
I quickly shot an updated photo, and surprisingly, not much had changed. I was in the same place, no make-up, hair pulled back in the same manner, while now gray, the hair that had gone through many transitions in the past 5 years, was exactly at the same length. I was not that much different after all, except for the honesty; this photograph was honest.
Feeling as though you will never "be yourself" again is a scary, but coming through it and realizing that who you thought you were is just a part of who you are, and only a small part of who you will be, leaves your future wide open
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Monday, August 15, 2016
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Friday, August 12, 2016
Secret
"imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been
would have appeared to them to be otherwise"
~Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Green
" At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change"
~Gregory Maguire Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Monday, August 8, 2016
Sunday, August 7, 2016
Saturday, August 6, 2016
Friday, August 5, 2016
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Sweetness
the face of a baby
emerges from a slumbering girl
a girl who
in any waking moment
would have you convinced
she is all grown up
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Leaf
"The day a dead leaf makes it way into my cell and I pick it up, close my fist over it and let the broken pieces fall to the ground. There is no wind to blow it away so I let the fragments surround me like an homage to it's once beautiful life. Here I am with the dead and here I sit waiting to crumble into pieces"
~ Ceclia McMahon, Skye
Monday, August 1, 2016
Morning Light
"Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness"
~Leonardo da Vinci
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