don't need money, don't need fame

just a fool in love

headdresses

I'll take the gold one and her magic stick

happy we were ever

I had you all to play with. I had a piece of each of your hearts, and now you've slipped away into your own lives and I am left with the happiest heaviest memories. I would give so much to peek back into those late nights and stand with you under the stars on the open grass rim we called home. Your honest little hearts, belting things into the night. I miss you ever so, so much.

an old poem I wrote in grad school

First you love me, Then you fade away.

Sings Lindsey, as if his guitar could pronounce the word.

Between you and your own excitement, I say, speaking about myself.

This premonition ceases to disappoint, out of all of this dinosaur breath.

Beginning with the smashing and smothering together of ten thousand years before this hour,

Ending with the realization that this hour has not yet been born.

Seeping into the space that resides silently as the hills flooded with fog.

Saving it would only allow that time to quicken its split into light and dust.

Can I imagine the consistency of fermions created before the sun could blink?

But I can find you in a crowd over and over again.

Touch the sleeve of a stranger and know its you again.

Go to sleep dreaming of the escape I will commit, again.

To late tonight, to drag the past out into the light.

Those boys sweetly sing, smoother than Lindsey can.

Bottles and bottles and bottles of ocean foam.

Two hours pass and I’m still singing along.

Singing and humming and whistling Pack’s song.

lovely drops

Julia Fernandez-Pol makes pretty work

Conductor: www.mta.me from Alexander Chen on Vimeo.

sweet valentine

new favorite daydreamy store

love + such

heart

best newest (to me) blogs for booklove

vintage children books my kid loves title says it all... for sparking ideas for new illustrations, and having major memory lane love

fifi lapin well, I have to admit, when I first stumbled upon this illustrator I was just really annoyed. A hotbed for fashion magazine 'as seen in' namedropping fills the front page of fifi's website, but you know, a cute bunny in stylish clothes just makes every day a little better and I gotta give props to this viral creation.

charlie harper okay so, not so new, but I hadn't looked at his work online before, and this site seriously showcases almost all of his works, pretty sweet.

best for last...

kevin waldron just go look. love.

*booklove = illustration inspiration

my reality is your fantasy

The Brittle Stars Danced. The stingray smoked a pipe.

Perfect article from the New York Times today. Especially since I just started my job at the zoo as archivist and spent the day looking up images and corresponding latin names of animals of all sorts. My favorite find today was the Kookaburra, which I haven't thought about for a while.

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,

Merry merry king of the bush is he.

Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,

Gay your life must be!

the taste of love is sweet

why were we ever so mean to each other? who breaks hearts? we do, we do!