I have recently discovered the band 'Oh Land,' and I love their music. Nanna Øland Fabricius' voice is just enchanting and so beautiful. This song 'Wolf and I' would be one of my favorites for sure :)

Hayao Miyazaki

I have always absolutely loved the films directed by Hayao Miyazaki. They are just so unlike any other films you will see, so magical. They are the films I can watch over and over again and never get sick of them. To name my favorites, in no particular order -

Spirited Away


















Howl's Moving Castle
















My neighbor Totoro
























Ponyo





























Whisper of the heart





















Like the clouds like the wind




















Laputa - Castle in the sky

















Princess Mononoke


























images from Google

I love the smell of rain.

The photo's with Rosie today went well, we got some good ones! Even though I had to be out in the rain for some of them. It was freezing but those photo's turned out the best, so it was definitely worth it. I might post a few on here once I get them on the usb from Rosie :). We are doing some more photo's on Sunday, which is exciting as well because mum will be doing the makeup for us, it's very nice to have a makeup artist in the family. It was a very nice day, very chilled and relaxed the way I like it :) that's what I love about just being with friends, it's so comfortable. Easy conversation and lots of laughing :) and how I love to laugh! We need more laughter and smiles in this world. I love it when you see someone in public, just someone who you don't even know and they just are making their way about and you smile at them and they smile back. Because I think smiles are powerful things, especially receiving one from a stranger, you could brighten some one's day :) with one simple gesture.






I still wants a cat!

Creativity

I am doing photo's with Rosie tomorrow, which I am excited about :)! We haven't done photo's in so long, I'm really looking forward to it. So I'll go straight to her house after uni. It'll be good to just be with her one on one too, so we can talk like we always use to. I miss that. We're going to be doing photo's with interesting headpieces tomorrow and I'll probably be wearing a leotard of some sort. Ahh, I'm excited!

So tell me..

And so I wish the matters of the heart were more easily understood. More easily controlled, but unfortunately that's not that case. But I must say I have become better with it, it's not as bad as it use to be, which I am thankful for.

We're constantly learning, every experience is a chance to grow.

Changes

Well I changed my blog layout. For some reason I desired it to be just plain white. So now it is, even though it took me a while to figure out how I could have it like that. But after some research I became successful :)

*20 minuets later* I decided to make a sort of lavender coloured boarder. The white was good, but I wanted just a bit of colour. So I added the lavender, now I am fully content with it :). I had to play around with the HTML, which I really have no experience with and was a bit confusing at first. But I worked it out after some trial and error.

Sylvia Plath

I remember doing Sylvia Plath's poem "Mirror" as an assessment for English at school. I was reading poems and came across some of hers tonight which made me think back to school. I was intrigued by her poem "Mirror" and her others I have read. Which in turn made me wonder about her as a person and what her life was like, what kind of influences she had and what inspired her writing. I know her life was difficult and that she suffered from clinical depression. She wrote a book called The Bell Jar, which is apparently a very dark novel, but worth it. I am interested in reading it and might have a look for it next time I am at the library. Her poems are so amazing though, she wrote so well. I have been trying to get back into poetry lately. Because I actually do find it very enjoyable, especially once I have written one I am fully happy with.

Sylvia Plath

Mirror

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see, I swallow immediately.
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike
I am not cruel, only truthful –
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me.
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.