JJ - Your Love

A Swedish band I've been getting into lately. Here's a lovely acoustic song I hope you enjoy...

"I just wanna use your love tonight.
I don't wanna lose your love tonight.
I ain't got many friends left to talk to
No one's around when I'm in trouble
You know I'd do anything for you"

The Original

Brilliant in its simplicity and the best advice for me right now

Elegance

Quote from Muriel Barbery's L'élégance du Hérisson

Image from This Isn't Happiness

Graphic by Me

Love Letters of Great Men Pt. III

Mark Twain to Livy,

Love Letters of Great Men Pt. II

I've been enjoying this collection of love letters from great men to their great loves. I'll probably be posting a few more before I get it out of my system!

Love Letters Of Great Men

Oscar Wilde to Bosie

Macklemore X Ryan Lewis

Not all hip hop is about drugs and groupies.
I promise.

"Fight, until the day that God decides to wave us in"

And when Macklemore does rap about women, he does it like this:

And when he raps about drugs, he tells the truth.

I am such a huge an of this artist and Ryan Lewis (his producer). Hope he comes to Atlanta again sometime soon.

A Thousand Splendid Suns Quote

"When this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance."

Reading one of my favorites! It's good to read this novel again, like talking with an old friend. 

How true is this quote?

I think Babi understands the importance of the Girl Effect.

Riddle #8 (FINALLY) Answered

Thought after a year I might should answer that last riddle. I know I left you all hanging! ;)

I am addictive
I am blue
I am a film
Everyone hates me when I am new.
You'd be a nobody without me.
I'd be nothing without you.
Who am I? 

yup. went there.

And, of course, they were royal...

Royalty
BY: ARTHUR RIMBAUD

On a brilliant morning, in a city of lovely people,
A wonderful man and a wonderful woman
Were shouting out loud, in the middle of town:
  "Oh my friends... I want her to be queen!"
  "I want to be a queen!"
She kept on laughing and trembling,
While he talked to his friends about revelations,
And tribulations at an end.
They laughed and they leaned close to one another.
And, of course, they were royal...
All morning long, when scarlet draperies hung upon all the houses,
And even in the afternoon,
When they appeared at the edge of the gardens of palms.

 Photo by Fanny Latour-Lambert