Week Sixteen - Farewell 2010

1) The people who have made a difference this year: as always - my family, Carolyn, LJ, Rach, Calum, Rachel P, Lauren A and Olly.

2) My fortunate and rather wonderful life.

3) That I am not afraid of showing my true feelings or running towards the things that scare me. That I, instead, embrace them whether I fail or succeed.

 5) Saudade: is a portuguese and Galician word for a feeling of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which has been lost. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never really return. It was once described as 'the love that remains' or ' the love that stays' after someone is gone.

7) I'm Throwing Myself to the Wind

"Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit it openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within."— Sigmund Freud

Week Fifteen

1) Home

2) My Family. With all their noise, quirks and love they fill my soul with happiness and comfort.

3) The clarity that heartache brings

4) A Winter Solstice with a lunar eclipse and a full moon.  

Moonlight is Scultpture - Nathaniel Hawthorne

5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b4F_ppjnKU&feature=channel

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http://showstudio.com/project/200_portraits/portrait/jamie_dornan

Alone

        From childhood's hour I have not been
        As others were; I have not seen
        As others saw; I could not bring
        My passions from a common spring.
        From the same source I have not taken
        My sorrow; I could not awaken
        My heart to joy at the same tone;
        And all I loved, I loved alone.
        Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
        Of a most stormy life- was drawn
        From every depth of good and ill
        The mystery which binds me still:
        From the torrent, or the fountain,
        From the red cliff of the mountain,
        From the sun that round me rolled
        In its autumn tint of gold,
        From the lightning in the sky
        As it passed me flying by,
        From the thunder and the storm,
        And the cloud that took the form
        (When the rest of Heaven was blue)
        Of a demon in my view.

- Edgar Allan Poe

A Snowy breakfast on the Heath

Week Fourteen

1) Bridget Bardot Hair:

2) Dancing all night long with a whisky in my hand and heels on my feet.

3) How painful and unfair life can be sometimes

4) Knowing that I am going home soon

5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw

"We could of had it all 

Rolling in the deep 

You had my heart inside your hand 

And you played it to the beat"

6) I exist as I am, that is enough - Walt Whitman

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Photo Challenge - Day Fourteen

Week Thirteen

1) That I jumped from fear of my own shadow this evening. Complete goofball moment.

2) How excited my mum gets about Christmas.

3) Never giving up on the things that matter.

4) Pie & Cider dinners.

5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gpNqB4dnT4

6) My heart has reasons my mind cannot fathom -Voltaire

Photo Challenge - Day Thirteen

Having

Feeling

Having the ability to see

in the world





I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Photo Challenge - Day Twelve

Photo Challenge - Day Eleven

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Photo Challenge- Day Nine

TipToe

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Photo Challenge - Day Seven

Mum & Dad's Kitchen

 

In London

 

Week Twelve

1) 1st of December: drinking my first Laphroaig of the season, in front of an open fire at the best pub I may ever have been in.

2) Pride in my work and seeing everyone's efforts come into fruition

3) Staying up until 6am & 4am on consecutive nights with SB - talking nonsense, laughing and listening to his stories. 

4) Feeling in awe of the beauty and individuality of snowflakes.

5)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZUKJ6M3dWI

6) There's so much we can do with words. We could dress up a naked word, and adorn it with decorations of imagery and twists of metaphors and analogies to appeal to every one of our senses. Our line of thought can be adjusted by what we read, we are positioned to like, hate, or be neutral about a subject. We can enhance, or take away from a subject of beauty, and we can create worlds, images, and dreams far beyond one's own imagination.

We can confuse, and we can confront.

We can entertain, and we can stir sympathy.

But we can't change hearts.

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Photo Challenge - Day Six