Sugar, spice, romanticism, resilience & everything nice

Artwork: Anonymous. Pinterest.

One where we obsess over woeful love. V caj.

As, in the song ‘This Time’, that he wrote for the movie August Rush (go watch it, you’re welcome), Jonathan Rhys Meyers crooned,

I've been sitting, watching life pass from the sidelines

Been waiting for a dream to seep in through my blinds

I wondered what might happen if I left this all behind

Would the wind be at my back?

Could I get you off my mind

This time?

Artwork: Degas, Edgar. Le Fauteuil. 1858-1860, Watercolor gouache on black pencil lines.

Hazaar gham hain, ghamo ka ilaaj hai umeed –Faiz

Artwork: Anonymous. Pinterest.

Do not resign yourselves to the world as we know it. As Faiz Ahmed Faiz said, “Chale chalo ki woh manzil abhi nahin aayi; jhoote hain log jo dete hain aasra tum ko — Keep going, for the destination is yet to come; deceitful are they, the ones who promise you refuge.”

Artwork: Renoir, Pierre-auguste. Bouquet De Roses Un Vase. 1906, Oil on canvas.

Mind first! – Don’t be afraid to take it slow to keep it steady.

PS aren’t onions, with their gossamer peels and many layers, just so pretty?

Artwork: Nott, Belinda. Still life with vegetables. Oil on canvas.

Like the lovely Anne said, we’re so glad we live in a world where there are Octobers 🤎

Artwork: Bishop, Richard Evett. Wild Geese. 1936, Etching.