And the world spins madly on.

Time was passing like a jet I wanted to be on, whizzing past in a grey blur of noise and wind, whipping up my hair and filling my ears with its loud echo.  I couldn't seem to catch it, to grasp it, to hold on and to fly.  To keep up the pace.  I hope you never step off the way I did.  And I hope you never have to think about what might have been, and what would have been....

the way I do.

"Woke up and wished that I was dead
With an aching in my head
I lay motionless in bed
I thought of you and where you'd gone
and let the world spin madly on

Everything that I said I'd do
Like make the world brand new
And take the time for you
I just got lost and slept right through the dawn
And the world spins madly on

I let the day go by
I always say goodbye
I watch the stars from my window sill
The whole world is moving and I'm standing still

Woke up and wished that I was dead
With an aching in my head
I lay motionless in bed
The night is here and the day is gone
And the world spins madly on

I thought of you and where you'd gone
And the world spins madly on."

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Living in twilight.

Hi everyone. :) Happy Sunday!!

 I'm feeling wonderful.  It's early October when the air is fresh, crisp, and changing, and we are caught between the two places of summer and winter-- light and dark. The gorgeous season of suspended twilight. The energy of this time of year is always exciting, speeding up from the idleness of summer, sitting just on the brink of the holidays, and surrounded by amazing festivals, events, and music!  I saw Kaskade on Friday night, am off to Golden Gate Park to see The Allman Brothers tonight, and have Austin City Limits next weekend so am a very happy girl. :)

 

 "We’d start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever. That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now. "
— Sarah Dessen

"We are always living in twilight."

Nothing else will do.

The Weepies.  

Why does this band just feel so good?  They have a way of transporting me straight through the clouds into some sort of land of ethereal indie pop loveliness, romanticism, and idealism that exists during the moments when I'm drifting somewhere between asleep and awake.

 These two keep producing these ridiculously adorable songs that are quite creative; with their undying ability to be blend syrupy sweet melodies with (at times) hauntingly dark lyrics.  If you listen enough, they begin to hit you there. Right where it you feel it.  Where it's real.  Where it's human.  Their textured, layered harmonies and perfect vocals gently pull you in with their delicacy and child like wonder, and I love how their sound is so unique- like nothing I've heard before.  I often listen to them before bed, and I put them in this blog a few times earlier this spring if you want to click on The Weepies label below and check out some of their other songs. :)

"Gray, quiet and tired and mean

Picking at a worried seam

I try to make you mad at me over the phone.

Red eyes and fire and signs

I'm taken by a nursery rhyme

I want to make a ray of sunshine and never leave home

No amount of coffee, no amount of crying

No amount of whiskey, no amount of wine

No, no, no, no, no, nothing else will do

I've gotta have you, I've gotta have you.

The road gets cold, there's no spring in the middle this year

I'm the new chicken clucking open hearts and ears

Oh, such a prima donna, sorry for myself

But green, it is also summer 

And I won't be warm till I'm lying in your arms

I see it all through a telescope: guitar, suitcase, and a warm coat

Lying in the back of the blue boat, humming a tune..."

I hope you are having a peaceful night, letting go of the day, and ready to have a deeply restful, restorative sleep.  :)

Oh and ps.... always remember......

Sweet dreams. :)

A smile rising.

Good morning. :)  Oh how I love waking up to spring!

Breakfast is my favorite meal, because I can get my gooey, sugary pastry and warm drink fix.  I have a slight obsession with tea, and with Whole Foods right down the street, I tend to go a little overboard with their bakery items, and, of course my absolute favorite tea brand on earth, The Republic of Tea. Their British Breakfast tea is LOVELY with cream and brown sugar. I have a cup every morning, gazing at the bird's nest outside my window, sipping the tea's sweetness, and wondering when the doves (yes, doves!) will hatch.

The Weepies.  Have a lovely day. :)

"What can I compare you to?

A favorite pair of shoes.

Maybe my bright red boots 

if they had wings.

It's funny how we animate

colorful objects saved

It's funny how it's hard to take

a love with no string.

Come on take it, come on take it, take it from me.

Come on take it, come on take it, take it from me.

Come on take it, come on take it, take it from me.

(We've got a good life.)

What can I compare you to, a window the sun shines through?

Maybe the silver moon, a smile rising.

The magic of the fading day, satellites on parade

A toast to the plans we've made 

to live like kings.

Come on take it, come on take it, take it from me.

Come on take it, come on take it, take it from me.

Come on take it, come on take it, take it from me.

(We've got a good life.)

I lose my breath despite the air

When the rain falls down I give in to despair

Pink magnolia in winter, she doesn't care

If you don't show up, to have another cup.

What can I compare you to when everything looks like you

I get a bit confused with every spring

Flowers that bloom your eyes

Wakeful dreamers.

The Weepies. I've been in love with this band for a long time. Simple. Sweet. Lovely.  Subtle. Completely, and utterly addictive. Listening to the weepies makes me want to eat ice cream cones on park benches, wear vintage dresses, braid my hair, wallpaper my bathroom with pretty roses, light candles everywhere, watch old movies at drive in cinemas, ride a bicycle, hold hands, and eat french toast with fresh picked, fragrant berries in the afternoon.
This song is completely girly, like the band, but hell....

I am girly. :)





"Thunder rumbles in the distance, a quiet intensity
I am willful, your insistence is tugging at the best of me
You're the moon, I'm the water
You're Mars, calling up Neptune's daughter

Sometimes rain that's needed falls
We float like two lovers in a painting by Chagall
All around is sky and blue town
Holding these flowers for a wedding gown
We live so high above the ground, satellites surround us.

I am humbled in this city
There seems to be an endless sea 
Of people like us, wakeful dreamers
I pass them on the sunlit streets
In our rooms filled with laughter
We make hope from every small disaster

Everybody says "you can't, you can't, you can't, don't try."
Still everybody says that if they had the chance they'd fly....
like we do."