weekends are for

1. sunshine, surprise snowstorms, and robins outside your window

2. marathon watching downton abbey

3. sweatpants

4. catching up with friends via Skype and hearing about their world travels

5. brainstorming vintage photoshoot ideas

6. catching up on laundry

7. spending quality time with people

8. SLEEP

9. eating a rather unhealthy amount of carry-out chinese noodles (they came with broccoli?)

10. obsessing over this website. seriously, if Downtown Abbey had a closet, it would be this. and if I had more money, I would buy all some of their things. drooling.

Friday Inspiration

“Our lives are mere flashes of light in an infinitely empty universe.

In 12 years of education the most important lesson I have learned is that what we see as “normal” living is truly a travesty of our potential.

In a society so governed by superficiality, appearances, and petty economics, dreams are more real than anything, anything in the “real world”.

Refuse normalcy.

Beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence.

Embrace it.

I love all of you, all my friends, family, and community. I am ceaselessly grateful from the bottom of my heart for everyone. The only thing I can ask of you is to stay free of materialism.

Remember that every day contains a universe of potential; exhaust it. Live and love so immensely that when death comes there is nothing left for him to take. Wealth is love, music, sports, learning, family and freedom.

Above all, stay gold.”

― Dominic Owen Mallary

*photo by me in Edinburgh, Scotland May 2011