♥ "i think that somehow, we learn who we really are, and then live with that decision. " ~ eleanor roosevelt

via volume 25

for as long as i can remember, i have been asking myself variations on the

same question: what do i want to be when i grow up? 

to some people, this is a simple question with an easy answer-

but for others, like myself, an answer does not come easily- which leads to

feelings of dissatisfaction and despair because unlike most things in life,

which are meant to be shared, your career is something personal, 

something you choose for yourself,

 that no one can do for you,

 but you.

so you may feel like you are a lonesome puzzle piece wandering around

 without a puzzle to belong to. you may try to fit places that just don't feel right

or try to force yourself into a picture that may look right but feels unnatural,

but just keep trying. and stay true to who you are. even if you don't

know what you're meant to do or be- your soul knows,

and if you go with that, you can never go wrong.

♥ love in the nick of time.

just in time for valentine's day-

the lovelies at jsgd are offering gorgeous prints 

to celebrate life's biggest blessing: love.

♥ window shopper meets show stopper.

"a book is made from a tree. it is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. one glance at it and you hear the voice of another person—perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. 

books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic."

*carl sagan, cosmos

i would never advocate the shredding of a book-

not for a window display. not for anything. ever.

but i must say that club monaco's recent visual display in boston

 stopped me right in my tracks.

 that is what a pile of books can do to a girl like me.