again and again

.

again and again

again and again, however we know the landscape of love

and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,

and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others

fall: again and again the two of us walk out together

under the ancient trees, lie down again and again

among the flowers, face to face with the sky.
rainer maria rilke
source: marco guerra studio

a happy man...

because i don’t live in either my past or my future. 

i’m interested only in the present. 

if you can concentrate always on the present, 

you’ll be a happy man. 

you’ll see that there is life in the desert, 

that there are stars in the heavens, 

and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race.

 life will be a party for you, 

a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.

the alchemist, paulo coelho
source: paul klee, errand boy- 1934 watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper 

to read in the morning and at night:

my love

has told me

that he needs me.

that’s why

i take good care of myself

watch out where I’m going and

fear that any drop of rain

might kill me.

bertolt brecht
source: deborah turbeville.com for voque italia september 2004

you say....

you say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. you say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines. you say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when wind blows. this is why i am afraid, you say that you love me too.
william shakespeare
source:paolo roversi- marie claire: fall 1990- pasionaria, via +

there is never time....

there is never a time or place for true love. 

it happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

sarah dressen
source: balloon dress by cocky eek, via +

on another note

i have had so many interruptions lately, mostly good. one of them was a wonderful few days away with some lovely dear 'old' friends to stradbroke island. hard to believe it is winter.... we had many days full of sunshine. 

it has been five years since i last saw my  friends, but it was if we only saw each other yesterday... 

my new computer is wonderful and i am getting back into the swing of it. i am working on my website (which seem to take forever) is slowly coming together.

....soon available

photography: ellen young, make up: katie mcintosch, styling thanee @frank and myrth, quote: emily dickinson

she covered her eyes....

"…she covered her eyes with her hands and cried, 
tears seeped between her fingers and collected in the little webs,
 she cried and cried and cried, 
there weren’t any napkins nearby so i ripped the page from the book— ‘i don’t speak. i’m sorry.’ —and used it to dry her cheeks, my explanation and apology ran down her face like mascara…"

thomas schell; extremely loud & incredibly close, jonathan safran foer
source:tim walker, atelier versace, voque italia, via +

barbara munsel

my dear friend barbara munsel's collection come slowly, eden- fall winter 2011/12 is stunningly beautiful. her clothing is an expression of herself: every piece is born directly from her sensibilities. 

come slowly,
eden
lips unused to thee.
bashful, sip thy jasmines,
as the fainting bee,
reaching late his flower,
round her chamber hums,
counts his nectars -alights,
and is lost in balms! 

have a look at previous posts on abundance: here- hermitage- here and here

i miss you my darling friend

xxx

images by lieke romeijn

a blessing...

suddenly I realize

that if I stepped out of my body I would break into blossom.

james wright, a blessing

source: lilyroze, via blue sky butterfly studio

hidden memories, puur anders: miranda van dijk

miranda van dijk is jewelry designer + stylist from the netherlands. her beautiful new collection 'hidden memories' 

is inspired by the connection between nature and humankind. she prints old photographs onto fabric and turns them into leaves. it's nice to have a memory close to the heart. she does custom pieces too...

miranda sells throughout the netherlands, big cartel, etsy and on zigouis onlinestore

i have been following miranda for a while now, i first fell in love with her 'evolution' collection. 

.....a              long overdue post. thank you miranda x

zo puur en zo gewoon

en daardoor heel bijzonder.

anders.

puur anders.

phrase...

writing is the same as music. it’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it.
 and what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.
robert creeley
source: junya watanabe, via + 

website

i am working on my website...

it is good to love many things

it is good to love many things, for therein lies strength,
 and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much,  and what is done with love is well done.

vincent van gogh
source: photographed by paolo roversi - vogue italia: march 2002- magnificent, 
top to toe, via +

sing...

at times it feels like music is an excuse to be a human. 

it feels like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

marcus mumford

source: masao yamamoto, via +

i think you know it

i felt like crying but nothing came out.

 it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. 

i think you know it. i think everybody knows it now and then. 

but i think i have known it pretty often, too often.

charles bukowsk

source: paolo roversi, via +

....

how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single
moment before starting to improve the world.

anne frank

source: silhouettes in the fog, fall–winter 1985–1986, yohji yamamoto, photography jean–françois deroubaix, fashion memoirs: yohji yamamoto, via +

a to b...

logic will get you from A to B. imagination will take you anywhere.

albert einstein

source: paolo roversi, blue mask, paris 2007, via +

belong...

everything has its own place and function. that applies to people, although many don’t seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. when you know and respect your inner nature, you know where you belong. you also know where you don’t belong.

the tao of pooh

source: fall-winter, yohji yamamoto, photography nick knight, 

fashion memoires: yohji yamamoto, via +

yesterday, today, tomorrow...

yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.

kahlil gibran

source: gohstlike luminaies. paolo roversi for voque uk, april 1986,
 via + and +

good-byes

i've learned that good-byes will always hurt,

pictures will never replace having been there,

memories good and bad will bring tears,

and words never replace feelings

'unknown'

source: benjamin goss, via +

white noise

i like it when it rains hard. 

it sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

mark haddon, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time

source: rinko kawauchi, designboom, via +

my heart wanders

my new book...      my heart wanders of pia jane bijkerk is stunningly beautiful and inspirational. (it brought a lot of memories and emotions up)

 a MUST...    have

image pia jane bijkerk

... lovely to finally meet pia after our email conversations. 

read what my lovely friend dayle had to say:

green been food: pia jane bijkerk...my heart wanders book launch: "my dear friend mady (+ check out her gorgeous blog anabundance ) invited me to pia jane bijkerk's book launch 'my heart wanders' on ..."

...the afternoon was just perfect