maggie and millie and molly and may

went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang

so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

millie befriended a stranded star

whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing

which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and

may came home with a smooth round stone

as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)

it's always ourselves we find in the sea.

e.e. cummings

goodbye, summer!  wish you could stay a bit longer.

photo by Jocelyn Marie

Marie Edwards

from weheartit

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

e. e. cummings

There is a certain part of me that wants to live in New York…

And live in this little brownstone! Look familiar?

Her bedroom...

The dining area and the kitchen...

I love the adorable little kitchen :) and the lamp and the wreath.

In this shot you can see the beautiful woodwork around the doors.

-Meg Ryan's New York brownstone in You've Got Mail

My favorite parts of The Book Thief...

It’s probably fair to say that in all the years of Hitler’s reign, no person was able to serve the Fuhrer as loyally as me. A human doesn’t have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be at the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

***A Small Piece of Truth***

I do not carry a sickle or a scythe.

I only wear a hooded black robe when it’s cold.

And I don’t have those skull-like

facial features you seem to enjoy

pinning on me from a distance. You

want to know what I truly look like?

I’ll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.

For now, Rudy and Liesel made their way onto Himmel Street in the rain.

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.

She was the book thief without the words.

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.

"I bless the Lord who gives me counsel;

in the night also my heart instructs me;

I have set the Lord always before me;

because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole

 being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.

For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,

or let your holy one see corruption.

You make known to me the path of my life;

in your presence there is fullness of joy;

at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

Psalm 16:7-11

http://fiftypeopleonequestion.com/films/4-london-uk

Where would you wake up, if it could be anywhere, at any time?

photo from here

"I love thee, I love but thee

With a love that shall not die

Till the sun grows cold

And the stars grow old."

-William Shakespeare

"Do not ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive."

-howard thurman

photography by Amanda Gilligan

A family reunion this past summer in Lincoln City, Oregon...it was absolutely beautiful! (:

Some of the prettiest sunsets I have ever seen!

We got up early to go see the low tide...

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away"

-maya angelou

Photos by cherylraharjo on flickr

Photos by Nastya Pirate on flickr

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid"

— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

I spent plenty of time this summer reading, both for school and for fun. Here’s my list, from a new all-time favorite to one I couldn’t even get through!

1. The Book Thief- Zusak

2. The Great Train Robbery- Crichton

3. 1984- Orwell

4. Shiver (I succumbed to YA!)- Stiefvater

5. The Hound of the Baskervilles- Doyle

6. All Quiet on the Western Front- Remarque

7. Catcher in the Rye- Salinger

8. Bella Tuscany- Mayes

9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Twain

10. Brunelleschi’s Dome- King

"and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"

-anais nin

"the fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can"

-robert cushing

Lazareva Valeria photography