Days

What are days for?

Days are where we live.   

They come, they wake us   

Time and time over.

They are to be happy in:   

Where can we live but days?

Ah, solving that question

Brings the priest and the doctor   

In their long coats

Running over the fields.

- Philip Larkin

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Summer (in London, if I must put caption under each picture) is - seeing the RA summer exhibition and Edvard Munch, reading with sunglasses on, iced white wine on Charlotte Street, walking amidst wild flowers, having very late brunch at Lantana. 

Or,

summer is strolling at your own pace, getting half drunk and fully happy already at mid-day, humming to the sound of the rain, savouring each unphotographable moments.

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Bubbly

* from Park&Cube // Le Fur Coat // A Lovely Being // marie-acidrain //Freunde von Freunden

'I only drink Champagne when I'm happy, 

and when I'm sad. sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. 

when I have company, I consider it obligatory. 

I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am. 

otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty.'

- Lily Bollinger

Oh yes
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Afloat

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. 

- Henry David Thoreau

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Cinematic Writing IX

szamil

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

...

She turns and looks a moment in the glass,

Hardly aware of her departed lover;

Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:

“Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.”

When lovely woman stoops to folly and

Paces about her room again, alone,

She smoothes her hair with automatic hand,

And puts a record on the gramophone.

- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

Hop Nop

My Ode to Jean-Luc Godard II tote from I Miss You Already, with the usual cluster // Trinity Hall, Cambridge // Coffee, book and no cigarette at Notes Covent Garden // First blossom // 'Paris is always a good idea' - Audrey Hepburn

Why is spring always so elusive?

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When I am not blogging I read...

*la marinère

*top-knot

*kinfolk magazine: journal and gallery

Just because...

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

― Anaïs Nin

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Cinematic Writing VIII

Maggi Hambling

I suppose like others

I have come through fire and sword,

love gone wrong,

head-on crashes, drunk at sea,

and I have listened to the simple sound of water running

in tubs

and wished to drown

- Charles Bukowski