
Sophie Anderson, Roses (detail)
19th century

don’t forget about everyday miracles: tasty food, good music, cozy blankets, fun adventures, midnight conversations. the bigger picture doesn’t matter if you can’t appreciate the little pieces.
lie on the grass. let the ladybugs and caterpillars weave their way between your fingers. let your clothes get dirty. act weird, fill your palms with dirt. watch the birds flit through the trees, listen to their melodies. allow yourself to live fully, experience things that won’t immediately change you or your views. to live you must observe quietly, even if that means days will pass that you have little to show for. Â
shit i just want to go to like……. an isolated little town on the coast of like england where the waves crash against the cliffs and send up a spray and it’s always a little rainy and dreary and the green is so green with dew and life and the houses are small and cozy and always smell like baked bread and tea and it’s perpetually foggy outside and i can wear sweaters forever and read a book by the fireplace or out in the garden and it sort of just smells ancient and where everyone just minds their own business and life is good and once in a while i bike to the nearest village with a market and spend the day shopping around and maybe i’ll have a dog who likes to follow me around and we just….. live


German school (19th century) – Still life with roses, oil on canvas, 61 x 80 cm.