HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

“It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting, conditional, unconditional, imbued with sorrow, stoked by sex, sullied by abuse, amplified by kindness, twisted by betrayal, deepened by time, darkened by difficulty, leavened by generosity, nourished by humor and “loaded with promises and commitments” that we may or may not want or keep.

The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.”
― Cheryl Strayed

(print by Adrian Henry)

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Friday!

Have a lovely one. Try not to get caught up in the things you are worrying about. Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

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on my mind today....

" Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. "

1. Head, Heart by Maria Kalman
2. Floating. Shirin Neshat with Sussan Deyhim, Logic of the Birds. 2001
3+4. Dewey Nielsen. His videos (and instagram) are full of gems. He's very generous with what he puts out there. Take a look.
5. Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
6. found here.

Spirit Moves

The hands the hands!
I think the spirit is in the hands....most definitely an extension of the heart.

Gabriel Orozco
'my hands are my heart'

Straight? What’s straight? A line can be straight, or a street…but the heart of a human being? 

--Tennessee Williams from A Streetcar Named Desire

Emma Dajska

Image by Emma Dajska

Irish Dance

Coco Rocha on JIG from Coco Rocha on Vimeo.

Red Hot Rhythm's 'Rhythm Junkies' - Teaser Trailer 2: The Irish

I used to do this. Yep.
It's still my favorite kind of folk dance, especially the tap. Dancing those rhythms is like laying your heart beat on the floor.

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Health Stamps

NHS 'Health Stamps' (1998)
 found via collectgbstamps

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...Enough to break your own heart from time to time....

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Love

Gorgeous neon pink/red heart print on dove grey paper from Banquet.

Heart

Emilie Faif "Coeur"

Yoga, yoga good for your heart...

...the more you practice the more you "can help reduce episodes of irregular heartbeat and improve the symptoms of anxiety and depression often associated with atrial fibrillation."

 

The first ever yoga study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found yoga to be a safe, effective and relatively cheap therapy for improving the lives of heart patients.

click here to read!

(source: jeweledqueen)

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