floral consciousness

“To be sure, she was exhausted; obviously, she was confused; but she was excited, as well. She felt that she was caught up in some chaotic but grand adventure that was lifting her out of context and placing her beyond the normal constraints of society and biology.”

“...he moved through the world as if he was intimate with it, as if he belonged in it, as if there was not the remotest chance that he would fall down in it and break a hip.”

“Information gathered from daily newspapers, soap operas, sales conferences, and coffee klatches is inferior to the information gathered from sunlight.”

“I have found peace here. Years of one sort of turmoil or another had rubbed against my spirit until it was raw, but it has been healed by tranquility, a calm that comes from within as well as without.”

“When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.”

“The lesson of the beet, then, is this: hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you’re brown, you’ll find that you’re blue. As blue as indigo. And you know that that means:
Indigo.
Indigoing.
Indigone.”

uncles

mexico

Taken by 17 year old me, alone with a polaroid camera in Mexico. Chickens in the road, cigarettes on the beach, mary-janes and plaid skirts, pick up trucks on dusty roads, walking late at night, sunshine on my face, Our Lady of Guadalupe, fireworks in the square, lizards in my room, mangos in the schoolyard, palm trees in the sunrise, pastel graveyards by the ocean, cockroaches on the couch, Amor en Custodia, yellow fish in the sea, mattress hard as rocks, pink clouds in the sunset, motorcycles across town, underwear in the rain, ice cream on the sidewalk, last minute kisses, crocodiles in the river, swimming in our clothes, stolen hotel chairs in the sand, lightning above the waves at night, turquoise and silver, young and lucky, home away from home.

peppermints from valentines on 8tracks.

♥ Playlist:
♥ Cry Baby Cry - The Beatles
♥ Sweet Jane (Live, 1969) - The Velvet Underground
♥ Lost in the Supermarket - The Clash
♥ Cosmic Dancer - T. Rex
♥ Un Jour Comme Un Autre - Brigitte Bardot
♥ Just a Boy - Angus & Julia Stone
♥ Ballade Pour Un Sourire - Sylvie Vartan
♥ Queen Jane Approximately - Bob Dylan
♥ As Tears Go By - Marianne Faithfull

flashback

home movie

Memoryhouse - "Heirloom" from Jamie Harley on Vimeo.

pen pal

One of my favourite things is a letter from a Japanese pen pal that I had in grade 5. It's nice to think that seven years later I actually had the pleasure and privilege of visiting Japan. I like to think that Chihiro and I still share our love of popcorn and french flies, and I wonder if she still has the little frog drawing I drew for her after all these years...