Snow Yogi

I traveled with the beautiful Mari Valen Høihjelle, who took these photos (thanks Mari!!)
For more photos check out my art blog www.i-art-rachel.blogspot.co.uk

Advice to my kids...

"...Learn to be good at change. Change is the one constant in life. You will suffer by trying to hold onto things. Learn to let go (meditation helps with this skill), and learn to have a flexible mind. Don’t get stuck in what you’re comfortable with, don’t shut out what’s new and uncomfortable.

Open your heart. Life is amazing if you don’t shut it out. Other people are amazing. Open your heart, be willing to take the wounds that come with an open heart, and you will experience the best of life.
Let love be your rule. Success, selfishness, righteousness … these are not good rules to live by. Love family, friends, coworkers, strangers, your brothers and sisters in humanity. 

Love even those who think they’re your enemy. Love the animals we treat as food and objects. Most of all, love yourself.

And always know, no matter what: I love you with every particle of my being."

A fantastic read: Advice to My Kids by Leo Babauta.

Yawn

Watch and see if it makes you YAWN.
Found via swissmiss

Norway

A few holiday snaps... Northern Norway is MAGICAL.

all images by Me.

Found here

The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject...And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate...Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

-- Seneca, Natural Questions, Book 7, first Century

Deger Bakir

Works by Deger Bakir found via ilikethisblog

Found here

Bjorg Jewellery

Striking jewellery from Bjorg, found on my trip to Norway.

1. Odyssey 538, 18 ct rosegold plated bronze. Solid handmade spine cuff with seven ribs.
2. NEW DAWN BONE COLLAR Neckpiece, Silver and Rose Gold Plated, Bronze

Mother and Daughter

"This is a continuing photo series with my mom and me. It is inspired by my uncle always joking with my mom and asking her if she is wearing my clothes."
Mother and daugther by Carra Sykes

Found via The Guardian Weekend

Happy Mum Day!!!!

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND YOUR VALUE AND MERIT!

(Source: mollyrstern)

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!

Let them hear your voice today

WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE ON THE LINE.

Our daughters deserve equal opportunity.

STAND UP FOR EACH OTHER.

(source: mollyrstern)

Holiday

I'm going to chase the Northern Lights...will be back in a week. x

(image source: dancingdownthetrail)

Holiday

I'm going to chase the Northern Lights...will be back in a week. x

(image source: dancingdownthetrail)

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Odette

More beautiful jewellery and a new website from Odette NY. Love the photography.

(found here)

(found here)

Callum Innes

Callum Innes

Found here

"Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it." 

 

—  Sylvia Boorstein

Votive offering

Votive offerings

From here