XXXVII

“My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”

— Anaïs Nin

Feb 2016 aesthetic: 

Also, check out this new song by Chairlift, I love love love. 

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Despite the rough start to 2016 with getting ill, I am very optimistic about the New Year. My resolutions for this year share a common theme: minimalism.

One goal, I'll share with you: start to shed layers of unnecessary stuff (both physically and emotionally) that I have accumulated. 2015 was a great precursor to this movement, and in my bones I know that letting go of Things will allow me to reach a more basic lifestyle of bliss and ease. My first step is to go through my apartment and get rid of as much as I can. I have done purges in the past, but I now have a desire to donate it all and keep as little as possible. 

Minimalism: "be more with less." With each task accomplished, my mind will be clearer and my soul more at peace.

XXXI

“In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress Street, ‘I don’t know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.’”

— Linh Dinh, Poetry Sightings

XXVII

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

— Benjamin Britten

Magic

Friends joke I cannot do anything without music.

It is incredibly important in my every move.

I wake to music, walk to my car to music, fall asleep to music.

I put music on to cry, feel empowered, get energized. 

Here are some songs I adore.

Songs that make me feel intense contrasting/conflicting emotions at once.