Summer is near and things will be okay again.

We should associate only with positive, focused people who we can learn from and who will not drain our valuable energy with complaining and uninspiring attitudes. When we develop and maintain relationships with those who are committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, we will have plenty of company on our path to the top of whatever mountain we seek to climb.

One day, I decided to help wherever I could & it was almost like magic, because I was exactly what the world needed everywhere I went.

Adversity gives life the thrill of adventure.

Behind every problem in life lies a purpose.

A robin redbreast in a cagePuts all heaven in a rage.A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeonsShudders hell thro' all its regions.A dog starv'd at his master's gatePredicts the ruin of the state.A horse misused upon the roadCalls to heaven for human blood.Each outcry of the hunted hareA fibre from the brain does tear.A skylark wounded in the wing,A cherubim does cease to sing.The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fightDoes the rising sun affright.Every wolf's and lion's howlRaises from hell a human soul.- "Auguries of Innocence. William Blake, The Complete Poems

I love the look of relief on her face. I get the same feeling when I piss in my cage 

Mindfulness is a quiet strength and deeply rooted value which many other cultures understand and often practice better than we do. It can be puzzling to people from other countries as to why Americans are so task-driven and action-oriented.

Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

Friends

Left and Right

Environmental

By filming yourself walking around your house and talking about literature and theory and your family, you’re giving us this remarkably generous self-portrait—of what you think about most, what you read, your own artistic journey, and perhaps most of all, your body and voice moving through space in the most banal but also intimate and compelling of ways.

Submissive

Somewhere else.Somewhere else.How these little words ring.

When you have generosity toward others, self-love is possible, or is it vice versa?

And a thousand small hopes stirring,not new but newly acknowledged.

When we started, when you started here with me, we had such hopes. Such usesfor logic. Like gulps of air. Like body parts and places to put them. I escaped from you like a reason. Like bone does from a fossil.I ached to become a ghost and when I did I even ghosted the long pauses. Hush hush.I wrote silence down instead of speaking it.I write silence and the silence answers with more silence. I write inhales. I write the pauses and then haunt them too, until they stay quiet and afraid in their corners.Pause, I write. And pause silences pause.

Let's pay attention only to where we are.There's enough beauty in being here and not somewhere else.

I was wounded early,and early I learnedwounds made me

Wax Cotton

I Gave It My Best Shot

The older I get, the more I realised that I put on a good show. A great act. But not everything is possible, as it's not in my nature.

A woman's job is to make the world more beautiful.

It's a Must for Every Submissive

Nobody likes carrying firewood, but everyone loves the comfort, warmth, and good food it will bring.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

“Happiness … not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.”

“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”

Cheeza

Aldi and Tesco

Nicholas Fairford

In the Garden

English Villages

Kirsten and Joerg Spring

Kirsten and Joerg

Cottage

“Where I am undefended is where I know love.”

Our Ange Raises A Glass to the GMP

Rishi Sunak

Must Be For Men

“Life is available only in the present moment.”

Restaurant Etiquette

Mistakes

Food in Lyon

Blood Sausage

Gary's Economics

Taxes

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail. … Simplify, simplify.”

Origin of the Germanic Tribes

Germanic

The New Statesman

Andrew Marr

Asking Scots

National Service

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”