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Tag: inspiration

  • Autumnal Snapshots

    Autumnal Snapshots

    “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

    —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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    I”ve been feeling a little fatigued about writing and blogging lately, so I took some cliched advice and went for a walk in my local park. The weather was the perfect kind of chilly, cold enough to wrap up but not cold enough to feel as if your nips are gonna drop off and wasn’t raining. I had a wander listening to podcasts, sat on a bench to read a book, and took some snaps of the changing seasonal colours. Autumn is great and hell I’m not apologising for being that blogger who loves this time of year.

    Ria

     

  • Inspiration | Spring in Bloom

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    “Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”…
    “It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…”
    – The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

    I know, I know a post about flowers and greenery and that smell of a new season in the air *I can see you yawning through the screen*

    Honestly the idea that Spring air, the days getting longer, and the sight of blossoms on the trees are really doing good for my general wellbeing. I adore the cosy embrace of Autumn and the euphoria of Summer, but I think it’s far to say I don’t fair well in the Winter – and this one seems to have gone on forever. Though the cold snap is still present here and the intermittent rain showers are still ever present in England, the flowers are slowly creeping out and so is the sunshine between the cracks of cloud.

    Let the sun shine in!

    Ria

  • Wanderlust | Run Away With Me

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    *image via Unsplash

    Have you noticed most of the so-called great road trip movies all star men as their leads? With the exception of the frankly brilliant ‘Thelma and Louise’, the more recent ‘Wild’ and possibly Crossroads – though I question the quality of that film (despite the fact that Not A Girl (Not Yet A Woman) is an a m a z i n g song), I can’t actually think of any more.

    “…I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…”

    – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

    I am obsessed with Sylvia Plath quote. There’s a small pipe dream that makes me want to live out this fantasy of dropping everything and hitchhiking my way around the world. ‘So, why don’t you do it then, Ria?’ Well…Job? Money? Visas? Logistics? Safety? The later is my biggest pet peeve (but I’ll leave my feminist rants on that for another day).

    But there’s just something about that romanticised imagery of the long, winding and empty road. The dirt trail kicking up behind you and the sun rising over the horizon line in plain sight. Or the sprawling city of a million people and a million stories just waiting to be discovered down alleyways, tucked away in side streets or hidden in the corner of coffee shops and bodegas.
    Sometimes you wonder whether you’ll see any of that. Whether you’ll experience the same elation, the same rush they so eloquently communicated in the pages of their journals so many years ago.

    Maybe one day I’ll take a leap of faith into the unknown.

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    *image via Unsplash

    Or maybe I’ll just settle for living vicariously through Instagram and Pinterest photos for now…or I could rewatch Thelma and Louise again.

    Ria