Dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Absent Minded
by Joe Webb
United Kingdom
Print: $35
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For the next year, I’d like to delve deeper into myself. I’d like to read more books — always more truth to discover about the world and especially reflections of yourself through books. I’d like to find some way to express myself. Through photography, painting, sketching. Something. Something to get my feelings out. The world may not be interesting, but I feel sometimes like the depth of a person, especially oneself, can maybe be enough to sustain interest for a lifetime. And there’s always room to better oneself, also.
SO, I’m going to go to Michael’s tomorrow after school and buy lots of paints, and a canvas or two, and a journal maybe. And some nice pens. And maybe a sketchbook. And clean my room, and start reading a good ol’ Russian novel.
Long live January and to new beginnings. I feel like 2012 is my year and I want to make the changes I’ve held inside my head in invisible thoughts and wishes for so long.
So I’m putting end to hoping, and putting more to doing. Somehow. I will.
I’d also like to add to this new 2012 post how grateful I feel for my family. I never talk much to my family, but Christmas made me realize how fun it is to stay at home. I get so caught up in school and with friends and my peers. I didn’t stop to realize how much of a life I have — well, not really, but could have — at home. There’s so much to do in solitude, and so much to do with family. My cousin, my mom, even my brothers whom I don’t talk to too often, are so solid that it’s an unshakeable comfort to me to realize that they are there and still exist. Sometimes I forget. I feel somehow safer.
@5 months ago(via thehousefinch)
(Source: beyondimaginationxo)
Here’s a version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night created using thousands of curled up strips of paper. Susan Myers used a process called paper quilling to painstakingly build up her version of the piece.
(via trackerjackin)
For the next year, I’d like to delve deeper into myself. I’d like to read more books — always more truth to discover about the world and especially reflections of yourself through books. I’d like to find some way to express myself. Through photography, painting, sketching. Something. Something to get my feelings out. The world may not be interesting, but I feel sometimes like the depth of a person, especially oneself, can maybe be enough to sustain interest for a lifetime. And there’s always room to better oneself, also.
SO, I’m going to go to Michael’s tomorrow after school and buy lots of paints, and a canvas or two, and a journal maybe. And some nice pens. And maybe a sketchbook. And clean my room, and start reading a good ol’ Russian novel.
Long live January and to new beginnings. I feel like 2012 is my year and I want to make the changes I’ve held inside my head in invisible thoughts and wishes for so long.
So I’m putting end to hoping, and putting more to doing. Somehow. I will.
I’d also like to add to this new 2012 post how grateful I feel for my family. I never talk much to my family, but Christmas made me realize how fun it is to stay at home. I get so caught up in school and with friends and my peers. I didn’t stop to realize how much of a life I have — well, not really, but could have — at home. There’s so much to do in solitude, and so much to do with family. My cousin, my mom, even my brothers whom I don’t talk to too often, are so solid that it’s an unshakeable comfort to me to realize that they are there and still exist. Sometimes I forget. I feel somehow safer.