It's quiet company.

Sooooo....

 Someone is bursting at the seams with excitement to see one of their absolute favorite bands in TWO DAYS.  48 hours.

(Yayyyyyyy!!!!!! :))) 

I'm ridiculously excited for this show, as it'll be my very first time seeing them live. I've mentioned The National (of course!!!) before, and want to share another song from their moving new album High Violet. This one's called Terrible Love and the build-up is just magnificent.  This has been my #1 song to drive to as of late, and I just can't seem to get enough. This band is special.  Period.

Yup.  I have (many) moments with my music in the car.

"It’s a terrible love that I’m walking with spiders
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking with
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking with spiders
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking with
It’s quiet company, it’s quiet company

It’s a terrible love and I’m walking with spiders
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking with
It’s a terrible love and I’m walking with spiders
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking with
It’s quiet company, it’s quiet company
It’s quiet company

And I can’t fall asleep
Without a little help
It takes awhile to settle down
My ship of hopes
Wait til the past .. ?

It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break

Company
It’s quite company
It’s quiet company

But I won’t follow you into the rabbit hole
Last night I woke but then I saw
The ship of woes but didn’t want me to

It’s a terrible love and I’m walking with spiders
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking here
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking with spiders
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking here

It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break."

Believing.

Good morning. :)

  I'm up but to be honest.....

I think I've been fighting a cold so am feeling a bit down, as a result.  Sigh. I'm planning on being productive on my Sunday, regardless.  That is my enormous hope, anyway. :)

Wise words:

Time to get up and...

Have a good day friends, and do remember....

........ever.

Here's a stunning track that is lifting me, and may do the same for you.

xo

On books.

I love books.  I can't help it... I'm am absolute sponge when it comes to them, as I am endlessly curious.  I truly envy those that own elegant libraries (yes I've seen them in homes) equipped with ladders on wheels, "Beauty & The Beast" style. I can't imagine what it must be like accessing an enchanting library in your own home....

 I think that my extreme love of words and language has made me more of a reader than anything else, and books have a way of enveloping, comforting, and moving me far more than any movie or tv show ever could.  I don't think I'd ever enjoy reading from a computer or Ipad  quite as much as an old, worn book.  There's something so satisfying about turning actual pages, and carrying it easily everywhere you go...

"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."

-EM Foreste

"The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully."
-N. Cousins

"Facts and figures are forgotten.  

Stories are retold."

-Unknown

Words are amazing....

Words are life...

"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end.  

You live several lives while reading it."

-W. Styron

"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- 

the story of escape.

It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times,

 how to escape."

-A. Benson

I think now that's it's summertime, 
it's time to get back into reading. :)

Naked as we came.

This is one of my favorite songs by Iron & Wine, and as I sit curled up in my chair listening to it's soothing melody, I thought I might put it on the blog. :)  It's hauntingly beautiful and seeps in quietly, but once it does.... there's a danger in becoming addicted to his soft voice, and perfect lyrics.  So if you're feeling mellow tonight, just listen.....



"She says "wake up, it's no use pretending"
I'll keep stealing, breathing her.
Birds are leaving over autumn's ending
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes 'round the yard

She says "If I leave before you, darling
Don't you waste me in the ground"
I lay smiling like our sleeping children
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes round the yard."

"Let’s just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I’ll be me, today and today and today, and let’s trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and know that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies."

 Stargirl

Visions of summer.

With the month of May spinning on (are we really two weeks into it?!), and the whirlwind of summer events quickly approaching, I thought I'd get us in the mood for our summer season. Cheers to May and standing on the brink of sweet things to come, as well as days filled with the moods of earth, sunshine, warmth, gardens, sand and leisure.

"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, 

and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 

“If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is."

-K. Vonnegut

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day 

listening to the murmur of water, 

or watching the clouds float across the sky, 

is hardly a waste of time."

  ~J. Lubbock

"The cure for anything is salt water,
 sweat, tears, or the sea."

-I. Dinesen

"If a June night could talk, 

it would probably boast it invented romance." 

 ~Bern Williams

"I live on an island and listen to jazz all day long. The sun is always shining, but you can still see the stars. The breeze sings astonishingly like Ella and the wind rumbles in a Louis way. My friends and I dance under magic skies."

- Unknown

"I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was, young."

-Anne Rivers Siddons

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