Alison Scarpulla

Here.

Saltimbanco

Beloved took me to Cirque du Soleil's 'Saltimbanco' on the weekend. It was completely fantastic! I'd always wanted to see one of their shows and to share it with my sweetheart was even better. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Diamonds on the Inside

"I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all."

Brian Tracy
(Via beloved Bloodmilk)
 
I just found this quote and it sums up the profound realisation I had tonight. I was told tonight that people react to 'fear' in a particular way...that the majority of us want to stop that feeling anyway we can. And that psychologically, our minds shut this feeling off as a coping/survival mechanism. But until we actually sit with it, and feel it, despite the pain associated with it, we will run our entire lives.
Tonight, I stopped running and felt it.
And it didn't kill me.
I'm alive and well. And listening to The Bangles.
Life. Is. So. Amazing.

Off Pointe by Mary McCartney

Wonderful, wonderful.

O'2ND Fall/Winter 11/12 Campaign by Tim Walker

Yes...

I write cards. All the time. To those I love, to friends, to people I don't know that well. I always have done...it's my little 'up-yours' to technology. I've only ever had extremely positive feedback to my pre-disposition to the postal service. Sweetheart writes me, and best friends also.
I wrote to the usual suspects this week; I always purchase lovely cards as, and when I find them...saving them for a rainy day, or posting them immediately if I find something I think someone would really like. This week, sweetheart, parents and grandparents received letters and pretty cards in the mail.
I was talking to Mum after she received hers, and she enquired as to why I felt I had been struggling a little of late. I said that things had been topsy turvy and that when I'd written to her, I was in tumult. She replied: 'Yes love...that's life.'
I love that people have a blueprint of my life, as it unfolds, on pretty, perfumed cards. A written word from the midst of my time on earth. And I treasure those that have been sent to me.

"I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life- and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”

Georgia O’Keef

My lonely diamond heart, it misses you my Dear

 

 

  

Fenton

Fenton.