Saturday, January 28, 2012

Thursday, January 26, 2012

even after

even
after
all this time
the sun never says to the earth,

"you owe me."

look
what happens
with a love like that,
it lights the whole sky.

- hafiz, persian poet

(nyc)
there are different wells within your heart.
some fill with each good rain,
others are far too deep for that.

in one well
you have just a few precious cups of water,
that "love" is literally something of yourself,
it can grow as slow as a diamond
if it is lost.

your love
should never be offered to the mouth of a
stranger,
only to someone
who has the valor and daring
to cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
then weave them into a blanket
to protect you.

there are different wells within us.
some fill with each good rain,
others are far, far too deep
for that.

-hafiz, persian poet

(nyc)

spiderman's hideout


an unexpected side effect of the 2010 floods in sindh, pakistan was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape rising flood waters. because of the scale of flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiderwebs - a phenomenon people had never seen before. courtesy of our friends at national geographic!

even in destruction can arise beauty.

(nyc)

day 26

o my lion


my sister: mom, where'd you get this? what kind of animal is it supposed to be?
mom: it's a lion. i didn't like how big the hair looked, it was wild, big, everywhere, so i cut it. (then she starts giggling to herself)

HAHAHAHAHA... i couldn't stop laughing when i saw this!! meanwhile, i thought this teddy bear came with a headband! my mom craaaacks me up :D

(nyc)

Monday, January 23, 2012

day 23

day 22

holy crap i'm late and i almost forgot and i don't even have a post-it note because i'm traveling but i'm here and i showed up. yaaaay!! :) better late than...

Friday, January 20, 2012

5 happy habits


1) focused breathing: visualize your insides blowing up like a balloon when you inhale, and slowly deflating as you exhale. start at 15 and count down. once at morning, once at night, in bed.

2) dancing: you know the one song that always make you get up and dance? blast it LOUD and just get down. preferably in your underwear while no one else is watching.

3) pen and paper: upset? happy? feeling sexy? no matter what the mood, get a piece of paper. write on it. draw on it. get it out of you and onto the paper. look at it. if you're feeling crappy, you'll feel better. if you're feeling awesome, you'll feel even better.

4) smile at little old ladies and children: they'll always smile back. it feels nice, like rainbows and unicorns and marshmallows.

5) fart: get a whoopee cushion. i guarantee it will make you laugh. every. single. time. none of us truly grows up past the age of 5 when it comes to farting, not even the queen of england. she's secretly laughing inside her head :D

(nyc)

day 20