she who daydreams

[shewhodaydreams]

I swear, since seeing Your face, the whole world is fraud and fantasy The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf or blossom. The distracted birds can't distinguish the birdseed from the snare. A house of love with no limits, a presence more beautiful than venus or the moon, a beauty whose image fills the mirror of the heart.

Rumi

[shewhodaydreams]

[shewhodaydreams]

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

[shewhodaydreams]

Our amazing videographer/photographer/superhero Jeff joined Jason on the road at the end of last week and this song is the first piece of content I asked him to capture. Tonight, I share it with you.

I try not to dwell on the negative because everyone has their own shit going on and I'm certainly not the first/only person to feel despondent or disheartened. These are weird, uncertain times. Life can be fucking hard.

Each night I send Jason setlist requests from fans and every single night, without fail, this one comes up. It’s funny how a song can reappear at just the right time... and with every person who requests this song at a show or shares their story in the comments or listens alone on repeat in their room -- I'm reminded that we are in this together. Everything will be fine.

[shewhodaydreams]

I'm hesitant to write too much about Hamilton because I feel like everyone who's seen it will emphatically say that it's worthy of the hype and exceeds all expectations (it is and does), but no amount of raving about it will convert the skeptics who are sick of hearing people rave about it. But I will say this: Watching last night's show reminded me of the first time I saw Les Misérables. I was 10 years old and the intricacies of the score blew my mind, the way that recurring melodies were woven throughout a story that, while set in a very specific time and place, was emotionally accessible and thematically relevant. Hamilton is that kind of show -- a classic, timeless piece of art that is deserving of all the praise and accolades it receives. I'm most grateful to have sat in the room where it happens. #hamilton (at Hamilton: An American Musical)

[shewhodaydreams]

Here is the truth: You have value. You have worth. You are loved.

Depression lied to my sister, told her that she was worthless. A burden. Unlovable. Undeserving of life. I imagine these lies were like a kind of permanent white noise in her life — a running narration of how unworthy she was. After years of the lies and the torment, my sister believed that depression told her the truth. In the notes she left for my parents and me, Aletha wrote, “don’t feel sad, I’m not worth it.”

She was so wrong. Depression lies. I have to tell the truth.

[shewhodaydreams]

#NowPlaying Music Monday: new (& not so new) songs to shake up your week

[shewhodaydreams]

James Bay covers HAIM's "Forever" for BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge and it's brilliant.

[shewhodaydreams]

To the Strangers in Whole Foods Who Surrounded Me After News of My Father’s Suicide

"You could have kept on walking...but you didn’t."

[shewhodaydreams]

[shewhodaydreams]

#NowPlaying Music Monday: new (& not so new) songs to shake up your week by Philly Brentnall

Since I incessantly hound the artists I work with to create and maintain playlists… I've decided I'd like to practice a little more of what I preach.

Week 1's picks are up now. Enjoy (and please follow if you do)!

[shewhodaydreams]

I've hung my happiness upon what it all could be.

[shewhodaydreams]

This is perfect. 

[nto1927]

this nightmare keeps repeating we’ll never get to the end of this fire we’re feeding  the hottest love has the coldest end

WHEN YOU WERE MINE feat. Tegan and Sara from Everything’s Coming Up Roses // DOWNLOAD // BUY // STREAM

[nto1927]

I’ll Always Take You Back.

[shewhodaydreams]

Epic underwater shoot with Night Terrors of 1927.

[writerswritecompany]

Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

Nikki Giovanni

[tylerknott]

Typewriter Series #1017 by Tyler Knott Gregson

*Chasers of the Light, is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, IndieBound , Books-A-Million , Paper Source or Anthropologie *