“It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‘don’t fuss, dear; get on with it’.” ― Audrey Hepburn This is a story about stupid people. Well not people in general. Let’s say … Continue reading The bathtub
“Sometimes, the only way to make your dreams come true is to shatter them.”― Pepper Winters, Twisted Together For the last three hours I’ve been trying to finish the last hundred pages of the book Wild. Don’t get me wrong, I love the book and Cheryl’s writing style, but my mind keeps wandering off. No … Continue reading Schrödinger’s dishwasher
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet Today I got licked by a toad. Maybe it was trying to get high, or it just wanted a princess; either way the irony did not get lost on me. There … Continue reading The toad
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings Of Buddha The Dypsis lutescens was obscuring my site. No idea how it came so far. Plants over plants standing between my life and my idea of it. Something to take care … Continue reading The alien
“Tell them that you weren’t hungry, tell them you followed the pomegranates seeds because they tasted like blood, like love.” ― Pauline Albanese, The Closed Doors Sun. The longing for a warmth long forgotten. Too many months sprinkled with neutral tones. Greys and whites and freezing cold. Spring came but the longed for, came and … Continue reading Persephone
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.” ― Charles Bukowski The suffering writer is the most appreciated writer, only second to the dead writer. Pain strikes out of the blue and spreads all over their path of life, so they’ll slip over it over and over again. It will stick on their … Continue reading Applause
“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.” ― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps Yesterday I took the bus to the other side of the city. Since I … Continue reading Egyptian Mummies
“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,It lies behind stars and under hills,And empty holes it fills,It comes first and follows after,Ends life, kills laughter.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again The watery white stuffy is finally disappearing and still I was very happy as I … Continue reading Gollum
“I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it … Continue reading Midas
Aromatic deception 