The Ethereal, part five.

The Ethereal.  If you missed the others, go down and click the tab labled "The Ethereal." These are a collection of quotes and images I find to be heart-wrenchingly gorgeous that touch the heart of being universally human.

Have a wonderful night. :) 

"I live my life in growing orbits

which move out over the things of the world.

Perhaps I can never achieve the last,

but that will be my attempt.

I am circling around God,
 around the ancient tower,

and I have been circling for a thousand years,

and I still don't know if I am

a falcon, or a storm,

or a great song."

-Rainer Maria Rilke

"I heard what you said.

I'm not the silly romantic you think.

I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars.

I don't want gemstones or gold. 
 I have those things already. 
 I want....

a steady hand.

A kind soul.

I want to fall asleep, and wake, 
knowing my heart is safe.

I want to love, and be loved."

-Shame Abe

"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.

I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling.  What is there to know?

I hear my being dance from ear to ear.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow."

-Theodore Roethke

"If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, 

you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. 

 You need to know things that others don't know. 

 It's what no one knows about you 

that allows you to know yourself."

Don Delillo

"Important lessons:

look carefully;

record what you see.

Find a way to make beauty necessary;

find a way to make necessity beautiful."

-Anne Michaels

"I once had a thousand desires.

But in my desire to know you,

all else melted away."

-Rumi

"A jaded traveler with an invisible passport,
I am home with this heaven of the unforeseen
waiting for the next woosh of sudden departure
when, with no advance warning, to tiny augery,
the unpredictable plummets into our lives
from somewhere that looks like sky."
Bill Collins

"We talk of sunshine and moonshine, 
which is yet one of the illumination of our skies.
A shining cloud is one of the most majestic 
of all secondary lights."
-Alice Meynell

"It's so many miles and so long since I've met you
Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you
But suddenly now, I know where I belong
It's many hundred miles and it won't be long."
-Feist

"I guess that's what saying goodbye is always like-

like jumping off a cliff edge.

The worst part is making the choice to do it.

Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do

but let go."

-Lauren Oliver

"She must find a boat and sail it.

No guarantee of shore.

Only a conviction that what she wanted would exist

if she dare find it."

-Jeanette Winterson

"Passing that fiery tree- if only she could

Be making love,

Be making poetry,

Be exploding, 

Be speeding through the Universe,

like a photon,

like a shower

of yellow blazes."

-Alicia Ostiker

"I experience a period of frightening clarity 

in those moments when nature is so beautiful.

  I am no longer sure of myself,

 and the paintings appear 

as in a dream."

-Vincent Van Gough

"If I lose light of the sun,

I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light.

If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood

on forgotten walls.

I will always write.

I will capture nights all over the world

and bring them to you."

-Henry Rollins

"Never love a wild thing.

You can't give your heart to a wild thing:

the more you do, the stronger they get.

Until they're strong enough to run into the woods.

Or fly into a tree.  Then into a taller tree.

Then into the sky. That's how you'll end up

if you love a wild thing.  You'll end up

looking at the sky."

=Truman Capote

"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees:

but he who is not afraid of my darkness,

will find roses under my cypresses."

-Nietzsche

Photo source: here, here here and here

Ambedo.

Ambedo-

(n) a kind of melacholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details- raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee- which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela.

 That is my state this evening listening to the humming crickets and sipping in the fresh, scented September air, reflecting on a day that leaves me making a deadly effort to not feel defeated and embracing a serene silence that I want to keep saying "yes" to.  
This song helps to ease into night.  


And do remember (as will I) before you slip into sleep later on:
Life responds when we risk.

"Taking control of the elements,

Making them mine, making them mine

Touching up all of the elements

Takin' my time, takin' my time

Takin' a hold of the present day

Pushin' it all, pushin' it all, pushing it

Takn' control of my destiny

Makin' it fine, makin' it fine, makin' it."

We'll go on forever.

"I guess when you're young, 

you just believe that there'll be many people you'll connect with.

Later in life, you'll realize this only happens 

a few times."

-unknown

"I have a million things to talk to you about.

All I want in this world is you.

I want to see you and talk.  

I want the two of us to begin

everything from the beginning."

-Haruki Murakami

"For true love is inexhaustible;

the more you give

the more you have."

-Antoine de Saint Exupery

"With the end of my breath

 which is the beginning of yours."

-Andre Breton

When I first heard this sweet song it seemed familiar almost as though it'd felt like home.  Every beat, vocal, lyric and the overall mellow simplicity honestly hit me more than any dramatic, dirty breakdown in a progressive house song could.  I put it on as I drive and it just keeps me floating.  So I'd like to say from myself and most likely all of the completely  smitten Kaskade fans in the world:

Dear Kaskade,

Thank you.

That is all.

Love,

Victoria

"You and I
Could paint the sky together
As the world goes by
we'll go on forever."

Photo source: here and here

Already there.

I have drowned too many times waiting and believing

Waiting in a corridor staring at windows

Waiting for the phone

A knock,

a burst,

a letter,

an out-stretched hand,

and an answer,

all the while

aching inside,

seeking these things....

that were already there.

Photo source: here

The reality of everything.

"I see you everywhere,

in the stars, in the river,

to me you're everything that exists;

the reality of everything."

-Virginia Woolf

Hi lovies!

 Sorry I've been so MIA lately.  There's so much going on right now that I'm not feeling much control over but am trying to accept it and do the very best I can. <3  I miss this blog and have been playing with many ideas surrounding it so hopefully by autumn I'll be writing regularly again.  I hope that you've been finding happiness and inspiration in your own lives, and also that you'll enjoy this new favorite tune I've recently fallen in love with. Grace Potter and Kenny Chesney are simply so real and have such sweet chemistry, it's refreshing. I can't help but want to live in this gorgeously filmed video that also gracefully captures southern California; a place which more often than not, has lately been appearing in my dreams and beckoning me west as if knowing my nature inspired and highly spirited self needs that glorious pacific fueled fill again.

 It's funny how the soul of a place 
can haunt you as though it was a person, and

 I suppose we all have our vices that sometimes make us crazy;
they always tend to tug at the weakest part of oneself,
that part of us that quietly craves them.

"Baby here I am again

Kicking dust in the canyon wind

Waiting for that sun to go down

Made it up Mulholland Drive

Hell bent on getting high

High above the lights of town

'Cause you and Tequila make me crazy

Run like poison in my blood

One more night could kill me, baby

One is one too many, 

One more is never enough

Thirty days and thirty nights

Been putting up a real good fight

And there were times I thought you'd win

It's so easy to forget

The bitter taste the morning left

I swore I wouldn't go back there again

'Cause you and Tequila make me crazy

Run like poison in my blood

One more night could kill me baby.

One is one too many

One more is never enough.

When it comes to you

All the damage I could do

It's always your favorite sins

That do you in."

Photo source: here

Sparks fly.

Good morning!! :)

On this beautiful Monday in August I'm going to post a little song I find to be magical that is acutally completely out of the ordinary than the typical music in my blog. I think every woman (or perhaps man) on earth can relate to this song either in our past or present. The thing about Taylor Swift is she brilliantly captures the yearning, confused, thrilling innocence; relatable hyper- romantically pained streak, and heart's beautiful turmoil we all had while we are in those growing stages in songs presented in what she refers to as "open letters."  These emotions followed many of us long into adulthood, when we are more removed from naiveity with years of experience and wisdom accompanying us on this journey through life.  Taylor can be an unflinching reminder of our youth, seeming to squeeze every fan's hand reassuringly a though her honest lyrics, while quietly reassuring them they're not alone in their insecurities. 

Have a lovely summer day. :)

"Speak now or forever hold your peace,' the words said by preachers at the end of wedding ceremonies all over the world, right before the vows. It's a last chance for protest, a moment that makes everyone's heart race, and a moment I've always been strangely fascinated by. So many fantasize about bursting into a church, saying what they'd kept inside for years like in the movies. In real life, it rarely happens.
 Real life is a funny thing, you know.  In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial.  So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.  But lately, what I've begun to fear more than that is letting the moment pass without saying anything.  I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back regretting moments when we didn't speak up.  When we didn't say 'I love you.' When we should've said 'I'm sorry.' When we didn't stand up for ourselves or someone who needed help."
-Taylor Swift

"Get me with those green eyes baby 
as the lights go down
Give me something that'll haunt me
when you're not around"

Photo source: here

Happy being someone.

Good evening....

I just wanted to pop in and say hello and happy July!! I hope you had a great 4th  and you got to do the things you enjoy with the people you love... simply enjoying being someone. I'd also like to add on an unrelated note that I'm completely disgusted by today's Casey Anthony verdict. Sometimes a girl just wants to believe in the power of true justice but I suppose if that's not possible in this moment, at least we can still believe in the powers of effort, tea, wisdom, energy, old books, chocolate, karma, love, music, possibility, the ocean, radiance, ancient trees, summer and hope.

And sleep. So, so ready for sleep.

I love this song by Faded Paper Figures, as it instantly puts me in 
that sweet summer state of mind.

"North by north— lest we have to settle down
we can sail without the wind in this town
Things that London never saw
Northern winters start to thaw;
To islands on the sea,
lands I’ve never seen,
things will get calmer—follow me.

You said a long long time ago
you were happy being someone
Let's go far far far from home
I'll be glad to be with someone

Land pneumonia, your engines in repair;
plant begonias, and orchids in your hair.
Continents all made of clay
Dreamers leaving every day
To islands on the sea,
lands I’ve never seen,
things will get calmer—follow me.

Someone told me you had oceans in your eyes
Cold as shadows over European skies
Coasting out the shallow day
Leaving London in decay
To islands on the sea,
lands I’ve never seen,
things will get calmer—follow me."

Sweet dreams.

Photo source: here