"I need to tell you." The man had returned to me after already taking a few steps in the opposite direction. I looked at him. He had a smile that reached his eyes. I like that kind of smiles. Some people only smile with their mouth. He smiled with his whole being. "You are a person that makes people really happy, just by being there." He was still smiling. I was a bit confused. "Maybe it's just you that I have that effect on." I stumbled in my words as I tried to laugh the matter off. "No, it's not just me. Your life must really be all good for you to be that way." He had no idea of how wrong he was. My life certainly was not all good. Not bad - but not all good either. "I feel I won the game just because I'd seen your smile before I started." He was waving his tennis racket in the air. "Congrats." "Now don't go have an accident with your bicycle." I mumbled something of an answer. The words came out in the wrong order. He now must think I'm foreign. As I bicycled home, all I could see was that smile of his - always making me feel so happy.
Almost a week ago I had the possibility to listen to this country's President speak. It is a person who is very down to earth, has a great humour, and best of all, is humane. Humanity is something we'd need at the front line of many countries in this world, I'd say. The President said something like "We only have one life. We need to live it as we like to, we should not feel obliged to sell all of our time to an employer. There is more to life than work." The President was speaking of the importance of family.
In my mind, a thought started to shape. We all live our own lives and it is up to us to do our best in doing so. We can worry, complain and talk about the world around us, as if it was something we are no part of. It feels cold and wrong and too big to be changed by ourselves.
Well, we all know that a great forest can start from one little seed. Also an ocean has its first drop of water. Humanity is inside of us. A change for the better is inside of us. We are like micro-universes inside this macro-universe of ours. We can make great change starting from within. All we need is the ability to believe. Not even so much in the possibility to achieve greater change, but in the good that will come out of the change within ourselves.
We are the waves in that ocean. It won't move if we don't.
I enjoy a lot of different kinds of music and that is a definite plus. During a couple of weeks I have had the luck to find some new sources of inspiration. It is an enjoyable mess, all together, but I'm sure there's something for almost everyone.
1. N.A.S.A.: Spirit of Apollo
Oh my. This album goes straight up to my all time top 5, and it doesn't even seem hard. 17 tracks out of which 17 are great! Top that! Great mixture of really talented featuring artists. The best example there is to give is Gifted with Kanye West, Lykke Li and Santigold. Others to mention on every track, but I'm going to settle with M.I.A., David Byrne and Tom Waits. Check out the videos as well (A Volta is excellent, even though so violent it's a bit over the top), many of them pure masterpieces.
I started to dig into the new album of John Mayer (haven't we all waited for that!?), Battle Studies. I like Who Says, especially the video. Digging, I found the somewhat older Say. I especially like the lyrics and the part
"Have no fear for giving in Have no fear for giving over You'd better know that in the end It's better to say too much Than never to say what you need to say again
Even if your hands are shaking And your faith is broken Even as the eyes are closing Do it with a heart wide open"
3. Melanie Fiona: Give it to me right
Here we have it all: the mood, the beat, the woman, the voice. I like the old style feeling, the smokiness, the sassy attitude. I feel like lighting a cigarette. Enjoy!
I've got some good music coming (this week has been all about finding excellent beats and great sounds), but I'll have to save that for the next post.
The holiday season is coming up and that calls for some fancy clothing. I know, I am a natural-born shopper, but I also did feel like making the effort to dig into my grandmother's treasures and make something myself. Pics below. I hope my grandmother is approving my way of using her handmade lace. Well, it all went on smoothly so I guess her spirit didn't disagree too much at least.
Thanks grandma for the decoration!
Some say less is more, my mantra is "It's all in the detail".
Tonight I was moved. To my soul, to the bone. I got the chills as I sat there. A feeling of intense movement within every inch of my soul. This is it. One man whose light was so bright that I am amazed if everybody couldn't see it. A soul so fragile, a mind so misunderstood.
Even through the screen it is showing so obviously well - a heart that is so filled with love that it oozes out.
For a moment I feel a bit sad. I´m not sure if the light can remain when the keeper doesn't? I just hope, hope that all that love, all that light has inspired others to find the light as well. A strength so great in such a fragile person. It is amazing.
Life. Ain't it strange. All those hopes we're living on - Carrying us from day to day. When to move and when to whisper When to wait, when to shout. How to know what's going to be Beautiful. How to see beforehand Hurt coming. Love and be loved. It will hurt us all. We will stumble, we will hold our heads high We will fall. When to stop and when to continue When to go back.
How can we be right when so many things can go wrong? A fear of falling keeps me from walking on the edge. A fear of drowning In my own tears.
And then again It brings a smile to my face Just thinking of the moments when Hope Words Dreams Scent Touch -- It all came together As fingers cling Entwine.
All in one moment. It'll go on forever.
Yes. I grasped for so many things So many words shouted, So many thoughts whispered. Some of them heard, others Forgotten. Yes. Life. Ain't it strange. Sometimes like shouting towards the sea. Words will be scrambled And at times I hear them whispered back to me. Smudged. Or even more beautiful. Life.
Do you know that warm, all conclusive feeling under your skin, around your heart and in your chest? That feeling of wanting to check if your skin glows from the light within? So that everybody around it can see? Yes, that is love. And just minutes ago I felt it strongly. Within seconds it filled my veins with a rushing feeling, almost like the feeling one gets from standing just a few inches away from the person whose hands one would like to feel on one's skin. Exhilarating, vibrating. I was shivering from the top of my head all the way down to my toes. Loving, unselfishly.
Love growing from the pure beauty of a soul speaking to another, from the amazing, yet invisible strings, that connect people to each other. From the magic of sharing thoughts, words, dreams. Yes, it doesn't take much to make love grow. Between ordinary things and ordinary days, it can be found in the shape of a golden seed, there to be spotted, if one looks carefully.
Who ever said that love, going in only one direction, would leave us miserable? Who ever it was, was wrong. Tonight I'm filled with a sensation of perfection. I feel satisfied, both in body and soul. From loving, unselfishly.
Love. What a beautiful force! And it's right there, within ourselves! Go on, waste it! Because the more you do, the greater it grows.
Small pawprints in the snow, that is what my sweet little cat left behind her today, as the first snow covered a good piece of the landscape. She is not doing good and I worry she won't recover as fast as she should, making a little cat's life miserable.
I took a few shots of the first snow, as one is supposed to. Hope you like this one!
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