Alice in Water

A curious girl, collecting this and that.

[flamelikeme]

Each generation has found a way of telling women which foods they must resist, what dietary path they must follow to take up less space in the world, and every book of mine tries to find a way to undermine this reductive ideology. Recently, I have been particularly alive to the power of food to make us stronger and, as I get older, feeling well and vital is more central.

Nigella Lawson, My Life in Food (via flamelikeme)

[nubbsgalore]

photos taken this week by mark bridger of a hedgehog who should be hibernating this late into the season, but is still awake due to the unusually warm weather. hedgehogs are now listed as an endangered species, with experts believing that they may become extinct in ten years time. (more hedgehogs in autumn)

[expressions-of-nature]

by Lana Gramlich

[aliceinwater]

Perhaps the most deeply hidden motive of the person who collects can be described this way: he takes up the struggle against dispersion. Right from the start, the great collector is struck by the confusion, by the scatter, in which the things of the world are found

Walter Benjamin

[aliceinwater]

Love is not consolation,it is light.

Simone Weil

[lsleofskye]

Autumn Storm

[luxuryera]

Gᴏɴᴇ… | Photographer

[awwww-cute]

[aliceinwater]

Ahhhhh so cute! Wouldn’t every cd store be better with cats?

[aliceinwater]

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then — and only then — it is handed to you.

Annie Dillard

[aliceinwater]

"Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems."

-Rainer Maria Rilke

[garnetbirch-deactivated20131208]

[the-right-writing]

If she starts cleaning up imaginary lint from the sofa, one sort of person is suggested. If she spills her scotch and lets it sink into her skirt without seeming to care, that suggests another. Something prosaic like sitting down and reading the newspaper does not tell the readers much. But if she turns at once to the medical column, that might tell us something. The actions you give your characters should be densely informative.

Jerome Stern, Making Shapely Fiction (via the-right-writing)

[coral]

It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via stxxz)

[cabinporn]

Abandoned A-frames in Lago General Carrera, Chilean Patagonia.

Contributed by Joanna Young.

[explore-blog]

If you haven’t yet, treat yourself to this soul-stretching 1992 interview with Leonard Cohen on songwriting, creative process, and working for the right motives.

[fleurdulys]

The Artist and His Model - Alexei Harlamoff

1875

[aliceinwater]

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Meditations in an emergency, by Frank O’Hara