(Source: prematureweddingplanning)

friendship

another excerpt, this time talking about two friends.

on cici and dessa. basel, switzerland

“We sat in a cafe that night, near our hostel, and talked for hours, about everything and nothing.  I really appreciate both of them, and that I have the chance to know them, to be a part of their lives.”

flying

an excerpt from my journal, paris 2009:

“We drove around for hours, I never wanted to stop.  There was less traffic, so we drove faster and faster, flying through the streets.  There were times we would hit an empty street and he would floor it - I would scream and hold him as tight as I could, but I loved it, and he knew it.  There were times I had no idea where we were, but i could have cared less.  I watched the arrondisement numbers change and sometimes I held tight and sometimes I didn’t hold on at all.  I felt so free and alive.  Every time we passed a street lamp our shadows would race ahead of us, and then come up again from behind, like a time lapse.  I watched them go by and by and I wished I could freeze the world and bottle this moment and feeling forever.  We rode and rode all over the city, until finally we were back at Bastille.  We went to our cafe to warm up and wind down.  And I was happy.”

cartophile:

Old stamps with maps

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.

— Georgia O’Keefe

petit-poids:

Andre Kohn

(Source: coeus)

Bday party success

(Source: moonandtrees)

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

— William Lyon Phelps   (via modernhepburn)

(Source: nathanielstuart)

Birthday cupcakes