The End

This will be my last post on this blog as I feel A Shotglass of Gratitude's  time has come to an end, though it has served its purpose wonderfully. No doubt another will emerge in its place given time but for now, this is goodbye.


If you have read - my many thanks.


Louise. x.




www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUy4GTjTxf0

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

-Le Petit Prince

Full Moon Friday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=budTp-4BGM0

'He who cannot howl, will not find his pack'. - Charles Simic

'So, now I shall talk every night 

To myself. To the moon…

 I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever.

 With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepts my being. 

And does not smite me down'.

— Sylvia Plath

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wayVq4BPS5Y

'What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction'.

— Chuck Palahniuk 

Worry Wednesday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo5PnYmTImA

Black Tuesday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp1rL7DI_D4

Tattoo Tuesday

DRINK UP...

Week Forty - Eight

1) Taking control.

2) The front seat of the bus. Never, ever, gets old.

3) Seeing my friends happy. Especially the ones who have been lost lately.

4) Still  have hope that one day I will be too.

5) Calum. Our visits are never long enough but man, they are always so full of laughter and good chat.

6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emnFcNP-ciY

7) And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

- Haruki Maurakami

Week Forty - Seven

1) Massages

2) My Beach

3) Reading a book in a day; Because it is damn brilliant so you cannot put it down and you have the luxury of time to do it.

4) Sitting in my parents' garden, under a crispy & clear Edinburgh sky, putting the world to rights with my Dad, hot toddy in hand, sittin' by the fire pit. Contentment

5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHWiY73Qcbw

6) Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

7)

Man Monday - Bingham

Week Forty - Six

1) Cosy, inside days

2) Lazy walks to get a fine coffee, kicking leaves the whole way

3) Reading a book in a cafe at 11am and 3pm on a working day

4) My new aubergine dish. Its delish...

5) Two Favourites this week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZckCXQBOTOY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNCv87La0Jg&feature=related

6)  Let us go forth, The Tellers of Tales, and seize whatever prey the heart longs for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is only dust beneath our feet. - W.B Yates

7) Happy Halloween