Gentle on the Keys.

{via twentythree}

Yeats: A Man of Priorities.

{illustrated by Jillian Tamaki}

Menagerie.

{via Where the Lovely Things Are}

Goodbye, Pretty Eyes.

{via Art & Artifact}

“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.”

 

— Nick Hornby

Whole Wide World

A very sweet artist that I've come to love thanks to NieNie. She's also performing at The Hotel Cafe on April 14!

Paris Street Style.

{via Lace & Tea}

Trickster Guru.

"Now a trickster guru is certainly an illusionist, but one might ask 'What else is art?' If the universe is nothing but a vast Rorschach blot upon which we project our collective measures and interpretations, and if past and future has no real existence, an illusionist is simply a creative artist who changes the collective interpretation of life, and even improves on it. Reality is mostly what a people or a culture conceives it to be. Money, worthless in itself, depends entirely on collective faith for its value. The past is held against you only because others believe in it, and the future seems important only because we have conned ourselves into the notion that surviving for a long time, with painstaking care, is preferable to surviving for a short time with no responsibility and lots of thrills. It is really a matter of changing fashion."

-Alan Watts

Splendor in the Grass.

On Sunday, I accompanied the lovely Jackie Jones on her photo shoot adventure with the talented Mimi Yip for a day of rolling hills, green grass, formal wear, an old typewriter, a ladybug & some sunflowers. Basically, the perfect Sunday.

p.s. how gorgeous does Jackie look? Hello, bombshell! :)

Out of the Black.

{via WatchYourEyes}

Happy Birthday to My Little Sis.

Today, she turned 23. :)

Pray For Japan.

{by Makeup Your Mind}

{by the cherry blossom girl}

Florentino Ariza.

"And how long do you think we can keep up this goddamn coming and going?"
 

"Forever."

-Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"I Really Love to Blend and Makeup..."

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Overheard on the Titanic.

{via A Cup of Jo}

Time's A Goon.

{via the paris review}

Master of None.

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

-Albert Einstein

The StART of a Beautiful Life.

a celeste and adam production :)

The Story of Citizens United v. FEC

Private Worlds.

I'd like to be both of these ladies at the same time.

{via le project d'amour + lace & tea}

Vintage Kate Moss.

{via Lace & Tea}

Eating Animals.

A truly fascinating interview on where our food comes from and how much our choices matter (especially from the 25-minute mark and on):

One day this will all be gone.

I've been trying to read this without tearing up...and fail every time.

{via le love}

God Of Love.

I love short films and this one looks fun & it just won an Oscar! Gonna make it a point to see it this weekend :)

{via A Cup of Jo}

Charmed Life.

i get to be a baby.
i get to be a toddler.
i get to be a kid.
i get to be a pre-teen.
i get to be a teen.
i get to be an almostwoman.
i get to be a (super)woman.
i get to be a momknowsbest.
i get to be a ladywise.
i get to be a grandma.
i get to be a grandmagreat.
i get to be a womanwise.
i.get.to.be.alive.

Travel Time.

{via unruly things}

{via Anthropologie}

Love Is All You Need.

{by w. scott chester}

Yes, Indeed.

Forever Alone.

From hitrecordjoe: Alright, based on a lot of tweeters/tumblrers reactions to this, it seems I let an attempt at witty brevity get in the way of clarity, so let me clarify what I meant when I said that “celebrities” and “fictional characters” are actually the same thing.

The image, the persona, the character of a “celebrity” is a creation.  It’s not a real person.

“Celebrity” sites, gossip rags, all that stuff, of course it’s not real.  It might be loosely based on some real people, but so is a lot of fiction.

And to quit beating around the bush, I’ll conclude thusly: don’t waste your time on that “celebrity” bullshit.  It’s bad for you.

Now, as far as falling in love with fictional characters — I have no problem with that, as long as they’re well written.

:O)

{by A Place For Twigs}

{by tastes orangey}

Life Plan.

desires-->will-->deeds-->destiny

{via Oh Joy!}

I Wish I Was Your Favourite Girl.

Love this song and can't stop listening (& writing) to it...

Bohemian Romance.

{via 100 Layer Cake}

Can't Wait.

{by shanna murray}

Wishes.

{via Things To Be Happy About}

Another Distinct Person.

Sometimes, when we’re lying together, I look at her and I feel dizzy with the realization that here is another distinct person from me, who has memories, origins, thoughts, feelings that are different from my own. That tension between familiarity and mystery meshes something strong between us. Even if one builds a life together based on trust, attentiveness and mutual support, I think that it’s important that a partner continues to surprise. 

-Barack Obama

{via alkeemi}

"keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird 
will come."

-chinese proverb

Arvin.

I'm a very lucky girl because I get to work with the cuuutest kids in the world, including this little fella:

6-year-old Arvin walks into the room wearing mittens, a beanie, and a bomber jacket.

ME: Arvin, you look so warm!

ARVIN: (near tears and frantically looking himself up and down) wheeere? wheeere!? wheeeere is the worm?!!?!

Erin Flannery.

{via heart charlie}

A Fine Frenzy.

{via designlovefest}

Decade.

{by Bernadette Pascua}

Chance.

{via wit + delight}

{via kissssing}

Teenage Mercury

"I found it hard to keep myself bound to a single best friend, just as I found it hard to keep myself bound to a single version of myself. I had uptown friends and downtown friends, cool friends and preppy friends, stoner friends and straight-edge friends, always my own one-girl reenactment of The Breakfast Club. Looking back at my fifteen-year-old self, it surprises me that I didn’t actually split into several pieces of teenage mercury, all rolling off in different directions, or try to live a double life of some sort, where at one school I was a prize-winning bassoonist, and at another, a patchouli-wearing hippie."

-Emma Straub, My Rayannes

Totally Worth the Hype.

Finally made my way to Downtown LA this weekend, where I stopped into BabyCakes for their much-talked about vegan and gluten-free cookie sandwiches. I was a skeptic, but let's just say that after one bite, they're my new form of h-e-a-v-e-n.

Baby's First Audition

I could watch this over and over!

Baby's First Audition from alex on Vimeo.

{via A Cup of Jo}

{via Little Paper Planes}

I'll Play A Song, You Dance.

Actually, Truly.

You are beautiful, certainly, and, you won't admit it, but you have the makings of what the world was actually, truly made for.

-Jake Kilroy 

Considering Love On A Porch At Night Somewhere In The South During Summertime

The French.

{via Vain and Vapid}

Audrey

{via Leo Fuchs}

{via mimi yip}

{by wirrow}

So True.

{via UPPERCASE magazine}

New Year's Eve, Family & A Deck of Cards

On New Year's Eve, I got the flu and my sister had no plans. My parents couldn't have been happier. They lit the fireplace, laid out a big blanket, brought down pillows, told us to get into our PJs, and brought out a deck of playing cards.

I could barely keep my eyes open past 10pm, but I did manage to realize that this was all far better than a fancy party or glitzy event. 

My parents know how to entertain.