"This week, after you’ve fed yourself and taken a nap and paid your rent, use all the energy left over for watching the way your take up space in the world, for being gentle with the people around you, for being as generous as you can with your good thoughts. It’s a week for listening and doing favors and sharing everything you can. It’s a week for cultivating feelings of kindness in your own heart, for tending to them carefully, for watching them grow in your heart like a garden, like a field, like a forest."

-- Madame Clairevoyant
(This was for Aries, but I think its more of a one size fits all!) 

sometimes i skip workouts to eat burgers and drink beer.
sometimes i make really bad decisions at 2am.
sometimes i love more than i am loved.
sometimes i fall asleep with all of my eye make up on.
sometimes i fuck up.
sometimes i’m supremely on point.
sometimes i get so hopped up on coffee it’s insane.
sometimes i play beautiful music.
sometimes i do absolutely nothing.
but most times…. i have a really good time.

From tarafirma

songs about somtimes

sometimes

ˈsʌmtʌɪmz/

adverb

adverb: sometimes

1.

occasionally, rather than all of the time.

"sometimes I want to do things on my own"

synonyms:

occasionally, from time to time, (every) now and then/again, every so often, (every) once in a while, on occasion, on occasions, on the odd occasion, at times, off and on, at intervals, periodically, sporadically, spasmodically, erratically, irregularly, intermittently, in/by fits and starts, fitfully, discontinuously, piecemeal; More

Ariko Inaoka

Two and one.
 Ariko Inaoka

Twins

www.aarriikkoo.com

yep.
Screen shots from Une Femme est Une Femme.
Found here.

Libra: This is a week for indulging in all of your weird curiosity, it’s a week for seeing as much of your world as you can, it’s a week for going out and moving through your town. This week, the world has strange and beautiful things to show in the concrete of your sidewalk, in the clouds, in your friends’ bright faces. This week, let your curiosity live, let it grow strong and wild, let it run in wide loops and circles through your life; it’s the thing that can make your world bearable, the thing that can help you live.

-- Madame Clairevoyant

"Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion."

- Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

Remember Remember

Happy 5th!
Photo of sparklers found here.

Bonfire Night!

Rings that look like fireworks...
1900s Edwardian European Cut Diamond and Turquoise Crossover Ring, 14K Gold  and 1900s Art Nouveau Ring From Erie Basin.

“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”

― Gwendolyn Brooks

Egor Shapovalov

Merging.
Egor Shapovalov

Somersaults from here and sea polaroid by me.

Shapes

Teamwork and tumbling from 1925, 1929 and 1935 at Washington State University. Above is Tumbling Team 1929—them girls are powerhouses in harlequin print bodysuits. Dang!
Found here

it’s all about the follow through.

‘Two hands, one heart, Till death us part.’

Posy ring with pictogram inscription
Made in England in the 17th century (British Museum).

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Blooming Marvelous

I prefer this look to lycra.
I'm sick of lycra.

Bloomer wearing ladies of 1914 from retronaut

Ruth Van Beek

Ruth Van Beek's The Arrangement
 All the artworks are made using a collection of books on flower arranging. She has been collecting books on this subject for years, mostly instructional books dating from fifties to the the seventies.
www.ruthvanbeek.com
www.rvb-books.com

Recommended Read

Lovely article from Judith Hanson Lasater on home practice...

"I don't have a rigid view of what my practice is going to be. My practice needs to listen to my life. We're trying to make our life listen to our practice. So let your practice conform to your life. Don't make it something outside the boundaries of where you are and what you're feeling and what you're needing. "

--  Judith Hanson Lasater

Do something you love this weekend.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left! 

--Ginger Rogers

EYES AND HEART WIDE OPEN

Amira Fritz (again) becuase her work makes my heart melt.

www.amirafritz.com
www.facebook.com/Amira-Fritz
www.wow.sportmax.com

I would tell her, never apologise for the space you occupy in the world. Make your strides long, wide and sure. 

---Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

No place like home...

I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home. 

--Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange

Found here.