La Vie de Mimi

26yowriter, phd student & aquarius / Prague

[adventuresofourowndesign]

lovely bookshop in Cesky Krumlov

taken in March 2013

[firstfullmoon]

mary oliver, “heavy” / ana carrizo, “reflections” / anne carson, “glass essay” / benjamin alire sáenz, aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe / richard siken, “turpentine” / florence + the machine, 100 years / rainer maria rilke, “the last of his line” / margaret atwood, “november”

[laviedemimi]

“The hunter sinks his arrows into the trees and then paints the targets around them. The trees imagine they are deers. The deers imagine they are safe. The arrows: they have no imagination.”

— Richard Siken, from War of The Foxes; The Stag and the Quiver. (via xshayarsha)

[kosmia]

Chris Niedenthal, All Souls’ Day (Bieszczady Region, Poland), 1970s

[luthienne]

“Don’t be afraid to suffer—take your heaviness / and give it back to the earth’s own weight; / the mountains are heavy, the oceans are heavy.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Poetry of Rilke; “Sonnets to Orpheus” (tr. Edward Snow)

[marvelia23]

Museum Hours (2012), Dir. Jem Cohen

[genterie]

Jane Fonda by Francois Pages in Paris (1963)

[heleionomaia-deactivated2021051]

“Stop cringing — at your future, at your failure, at yourself in the mirror — and stand up and look directly at who you are. Not who you should’ve been, but who you are now. Let that person in. Let her be as mediocre and wrong and shameful and sad and miserable and brilliant and hilarious as she wants to be, because she knows exactly what you need to feel good. She has plans for you. She wants to show you what comes next. She wants to take you into the future you’re dreading and say, “See? You never would’ve imagined this.”

— “Ask Polly: Is Life All Downhill From Here?” by Heather Havrilesky (via weltenwellen)

[geritsel]

Carl Thielmann and Walther Klemm - a mixed bag of Prague woodcuts

[yuyuuyuyuu-deactivated20230726]

[mjalti]

“The difference between comfort and nurture is this: if you have a plant that is sick because you keep it in a dark closet, and you say soothing words to it, that is comfort.If you take out of the closet and put in the sun, give it something to drink, and then talk to it, that is nurture” 

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

[weltenwellen]

Jonice Webb, Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

[itsthesmallthing]

[ginger-by-the-sea]

[makeuphall]

[weltenwellen]

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

[apartmenttherapy]

Great bathroom with a new/old feel, spotted on T Magazine