Reblog if talking to strangers on the internet has helped you meet awesome people who add positively to your life.
(Source: ceasesilence, via frosch0607)
'she sees beautiful things' is an amalgam of things that bring me joy and have some kind of excellent inner sparkle.
Following:
"Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch; especially on a day in January, when the wind is blowing, the ice is treacherous, and the books inside seem to gather together in colorful warmth. It’s hard to leave a bookstore any day of the year, though, because a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them."
—Jane Smiley (via larmoyante)
Bookstore can also be exchanged for library. There is no better feeling than being in a wonderful building full of books.
(via frosch0607)
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
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There is something about holding an organized pile of wood pulp and dried ink that gives the reader a shared stake in the author’s experience, some small part-ownership of a piece of information. “This is mine, and although the words in it are not, the experience is purely personal.”
Where will this take us with e-books? I am a huge fan of their accessibility and their rich creative potential, but will the magic persist?
(via Brain Pickings)
(via frosch0607)
Author of Wild Things (and artist of the PNB Nutcracker sets), Maurice Sendak has died →
Maurice Sendak’s contribution to art and literature has helped me become the adult I am. I have nothing but gratitude for him and I know his work will live on in the hearts of so many. RIP Maurice Sendak.
Lovely piece of home at a sweet ice cream shop in Shadyside, Pittsburgh.
Familiar wines from home on the menu at the Porch at Schenley (Oakland, Pittsburgh) (Taken with instagram)
Galaxy Gold topped Space Needle and the Supermoon
Source: reddit.com by Mookychew
When doing dishes at camp, I often think I’ve missed my calling as a dishwasher.
(Source: summercampconfessions, via thoughtsofsunshine)
