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February 16, 2014
Sunday eve #writing #affirmations #truth #quotes #yrsadaleyward...
Sunday eve #writing #affirmations #truth #quotes #yrsadaleyward #jazz #radio #notes #writer
January 25, 2014
Where is your poem 'mum'?
I’m about to reblog it for you x
January 6, 2014
…and just like that, my story collection ‘On Snakes...
…and just like that, my story collection ‘On Snakes And Other Stories’ makes it onto a film set across the waters with the lovely Jodie Smith. Happy Days. x
Jodie Smith, Fall 2013
BTS “Somebody in Nobody”
Directed by. Lino Brown
Coming soon!
January 3, 2014
Artichokes, by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Until you have been the last ones sitting in the café on the corner and she has kissed the dark rum from the rim of your glass and schooled you in the art of eating artichokes…until then, you are not yet woman. Until you put soft leaf to lip, touch tongue to flesh, bite the lobe, swallow the juice she says will purify you, until you open it up, sigh at the colour, see its very middle and learn what fingers are best at…until you reach further still into that thick, hot, heart
life has not yet started.
Before you had been promised. Before she is a liar. Before you are dismantled, fixed and broke again you are not yet a lover. Remember on the right night and under the right light any idea can seem like a good one and love
…love is mostly ill advised but always brave.
The most important thing to do is not to worry. The lines on your face will never stop the sun from coming up. Your tears cannot affect the weather. There are wars going on. The one in your body is the only one you can be sure of losing…or winning, then losing again.
You drink more water than rum, these days, don’t you? But you drink to her memory, don’t you? And you only take artichokes in salad. Never whole. Not in a café on a dusky street at midnight. Not with her. Never with her, or anyone like her.
my only resolution is heart work.
my only resolution is heart work.
December 30, 2013
"It’s a
gentle struggle
this time of year
in this country
this frightening
colour
of life."
gentle struggle
this time of year
in this country
this frightening
colour
of life.”
- Yrsa Daley-Ward
"It’s a gentle struggle
this time of year in this country
this frightening
colour of life."
this time of year in this country
this frightening
colour of life.”
- Yrsa Daley-Ward
December 29, 2013
December 28, 2013
Thank you so much for being, not allowing the world to end and showing us how you save yourself everyday.
Messages like this mean so much.
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