/// rucola bonanza

I made breakfast for lunch on a dinner plate.

Ham, onion, spiced cheese, tomato omelette with rucola and monsieur croissant.

PS I've been eating rucola nonstop for the past week. It's my new favorite!

/// once i had a love and it was a gas

soon turned out, a heart of glass.

amsterdam weekend!

/// kokomo

suddenly, an intense longing for a dreamy beach.

/// do better

/// the laughing heart

the laughing heart
Charles Bukowski

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

/// strindberg

They say something at the beginning, and at the end it’s the total opposite. Emotions are very much like this; they’re not facts.

 http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Lifestyle/Literature/Reading/Strindberg-king-of-drama/

/// stray girls always fall on their feet

A lovely handmade present from Arrate, sent from the past to the Angel who lives in the future, strung on periwinkle thread and weaved with wishes of friends and love in every corner of the world, a reminder to never forget all the light inside and to keep on loving.

"Lots of love from Bilbo, where as you know, nothing is the same without your eyes to look at it, and laughter to echo around."

/// about that promise

hwasser - about that promise
pure bliss.

/// in the beginning

Houd maar goeden moed als het soms eens moeielijk is, dat komt later alles terecht, en niemand kan in het begin doen wat hij wel zou willen.

Be of good heart if things sometimes get difficult, everything will come right later on, and no one can do what he really wants in the beginning.

004
Br. 1990: 004 | CL: 4
From: Vincent van Gogh
To: Theo van Gogh
Date: The Hague, Tuesday, 28 January 1873

/// vincent and theo

"I'm reading a fictional biography of Van Gogh and I realized   something: one can fail miserably several times. But one can get   back on one's feet again. But in order to do this, one has to have an idea of what one wants and one has to have somebody who believes in you. That's what happened to Van Gogh. His brother Theo always had faith in him."

 /// Letter from a friend, March 2009.