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Love. Art. Words. Rain. Coffee. Beauty. Soul. Books. Tea. Yoga. Travel. Photography. Happy. Dance. Music. Ocean. Stars. Clouds. Trees. Color. Smiles. Experiment. Food. Quiet. Mountains. Solitude. This Universe. And you?

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this is what it means to be human

Everything, Mary Oliver

The Breathing, Denise Levertov

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Mohammad Shaheen)

Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

The Orange by Wendy Cope

The Quiet Machine, Ada Limón

To Go Mad, Paruyr Sevak

Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Peace XVIII, Khalil Gibran

Your Unripe Love, Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

Here and Now by Peter Balakian

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What's Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

You Are Tired (I Think) by E. E. Cummings

Living With the News by W.S.Merwin

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

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Blessed are they who live by the ocean...

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Blue is the colour of happy

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Spring in Sydney.

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Perfection is distance from humans and proximity to the wild and volatile ocean 🩵

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Mennagio. Lago di Como, September 2022

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There, I drank in the sunlight to quench my thirst. And ate ravenously of the silence. What balm for the soul it was!

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What a marvellous feeling. To be wholly who you are with another human.

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The gorgeous ceiling of Lafayette Galleries in Paris.

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The dawn, the dusk, the dawn, the dusk. Earth's unending beauty. Run to it when you need energy. When you need love. Solitude. Space. It always restores. 💜

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Paraiba 💎 Diamond

No other jewel has the vivid glow that distinguishes the Paraiba tourmaline, also known as cuprian elbaite. A product of the trace element copper, colours range from startling turquoise to majestic blue-green...but it is the incandescent glow that appears to light up the stone from within that makes Paraiba tourmalines incomparable to any other gem. It also reminds me of the ocean, especially the colours of the great barrier reef in Australia.

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Montalcino, Italy.

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Pienza 💜

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And then I tripped into Florence one autumn. Nov 2021.

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The loveliness of crafting..

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Mornings like these.