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[12] listen

"If you're listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break, it's purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonder."

~ Andrew Harvey

Recently I was asked by a beautiful person, what my favourite sounds were.... in that moment, I was surprised when I found it difficult to answer, i'd never actually taken the time to consciously make note of the sounds that make me smile. Since then, i've made list of my most favourite to share.

the sound of......

[rain] falling on the roof,  a [heart] beating, a crackling [fire], walking through [leaves] on the ground, the silence as [snow] falls, [waves] as they break on the shore at night time, [thunder], leaves [sighing] as wind rushes through the tree tops, the sound of a [baby] feeding from it's mothers breast, the watery [quiet] when I slide down deep underneath the surface of a bath.

They are mine.  I'd love to know yours..... x

[9] give

Make something beautiful.

[Give] it to someone you love, just for the joy of it.

A Kusudama ball, made from vintage sheet music - given to someone I love.....  xxx

[6] wish

"If I were to [wish] for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the [passionate] sense of potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the [possible].

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never". 

~ Soren Kierkegaard

[5] create

"The [creative] is the place where no one else has ever been.  

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your [intuition].  

You'll [discover] what will be wonderful.

What you'll discover is [yourself]".

~ Alan Alder

One for her.  One for you. In my shop.

xx

[4] silence

[Embrace] silence.

Create a quiet space for beauty to be [revealed].

[3] imagine

 

"Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless".

~ Jamie Paolinette

[2] dream

You have to dream before your dreams can come [true].

"The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between fantasy and reality, when for that just one moment you feel with your [entire soul] that the dream is reality, and it really happened". anon.

[Believe] in the beauty of your dreams.

[1] discovery

Exploration and discovery is my [wish] for this New Year.

The world is so much [more] than what we see.

I want to learn to [see] parts of it which are not visible, I want to [re-explore] that which already exists, I want to [dream] and let my imagination run wild....

Sharing a photo, or two, each day here for the next month, will start me on my journey towards [re]discovery this year.  No themes, no restrictions..... just something beautiful to me.

Thank you to all of you who continue to visit me here...  I look forward to following, and being inspired by your own journeys, discoveries and creativity this year.

xxx