"We will always have summer"

Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination- happiness- but few are going by the same road.

-Charles Caleb Colton

I will watch you in the darkness

Show your love will see you through
When the bad dreams wake you crying
I'll show you all love can do
All love can do

I will watch through the night
Hold you in my arms
Give you dreams where no one will be
I will watch through the dark
Till the morning comes

For the light will take you
Through the night to see
Our light, showing us all love can be

I will guard you with my bright wings
Stay till your heart learns to see
All love can be.

-"All Love Can Be" from the soundtrack to the film A Beautiful Mind-

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On Time

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,- as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

-Thomas Fuller

Here is a piece that I wrote which I thought would be relevant to moments in life that is so wrapped around the very concept of... Time- happy reading!

Time

For so long, I've slept beneath the winter vault.

Our dreams were weaved within the skies long before I've met you in time.

In time, we have held all that we could and draped it into the abyss, and here we lie within the measure of a second.

I wished so hard and long that moments in between our lives that we treasure so much, were like gold dust in our hands, forever pressed into the very premise of our hearts.

So when it has long passed in days, and into years- that beautiful glow, like the strongest candlelight, would overpass the dark crevices that leak though.

Often I press against the glass wall that separates you and I, how much I wish I could clutch you on the other side to where you are, this other life that we're encased.

Would I walk among the greats, I would not fear to feel the groaning trembles of Silence- you my dear, I hold you in the highest.

And you leave me here, these drifts of serene emptiness pauses, the air rushing inside me.

Even if I were the only one left to hold these pillars where we stand, I would fall and fly to all four corners of the earth to bring back all that we ever had.

You execute me with your grace, and I could sink with only just your touch.

The days that unfold into memories of an evening- the Other, it traps and entangles you away from me, would he leave you be if I were to awake?

Your hands fall gently over my eyes... seconds like these, it seems that time was on our side.

The sun has risen, its presence streams through... and if I had the power, I would capture our invention and lock it between our tears- for when rain comes, it would be the only thing that would save me.

My Loves and Inspirations: the July edition

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hi everyone!

It's July right now, so we are right down in the middle of summer.

I must say that right now, in between moments that as much as cameras can capture, none is so powerful as memory of the mind.

One thing I know about life is that you have to be fearless. There are moments when things seem haul you down, and slowly drown you. You feel like the next day would never come, but then something unexpected would unfold right in front of your very hands and you realize that what all those books, those films, and the music that tells the acknowledgement that to feel what we feel, is the cinematic whirl of Life.

Never the one to back down on dreams and inspirations, here are some places and things that I love and would love to share with you.

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Taking strolls while having laugh-out-loud moments and graceful simplicity with that someone you love.

Exploring ponds... there are some lovely ones around my area, and one in particular that I loved to visit ever since I was a child. It's so enchanting with a large fountain in the middle, with swans and ducks, and a curving path within the woods so it feels as if you're lost in the surrounding nowhere for only if, but a moment.

Reading "Never Let Me Go"... it is honestly one of the most brilliant books that I have ever read, a definite top favorite that is so hauntingly beautiful and poetic. I highly recommend it as its a great book to sit outside under the tree with. I am so beyond happy that it is turning into a film, starring Carey Mulligan and Kiera Knightley! It comes out in October...it seems so far away!

Conversations while walking around at night. There was a moment recently where me and Tim were passing by a playground and then we decided to just lounge inside by the slides, laughing like kids and just talking... out of that moment came that great nostalgic and magical feeling shared between two great best friends, as if we'd known each other all our lives..and in a way, we do.

Lovely houses amidst breathtaking scenery such as this one:

And this one:

Beautiful enchanting landscapes: I seriously would love to visit a place as this and to really breathe in that sense of wonder all around me.

A painting by Caspar David Friedrich, one of my absolute favorite German Romantic landscape artists. I would love to see such a scenery like that one time in my life. Someday.

Strange yet wonderful looking trees.

Grand ceilings that just makes you think it was almost as if it were holding the very jewels from the skies up above.

Packages and mail from all over the world! Let's be penpals, non?

Grand pianos in any setting, whether in a large concert hall, or by a small cabin by the woods tucked away under sheets of patterned curtains.

Flowers, of any form and shape, each is a majestic beauty among others.

Ballet flats! What would I do without them, constantly walking about in the city!

Getting lost in art galleries. I had the opportunity to go to the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) with Tim sometime last week and it was lots of fun, especially seeing the Ruben's piece of "Massacre of the Innocents". What's life without art, and what is art without life?

And that's all for now, ciao!

Ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep

I'll break my staff,

Bury it in certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever
Plummet sound
I'll drown my book.
-William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Hello all!

This week so far has got me sweltering under the heat, and I found my thoughts drifting into elsewhere. Here is a piece I wrote inspired by an amazing weekend away from the city, up where the stars are clear, and all forms of everyday concerns pour into the waters on the lake.

Away

Away from the heart of it all

Lies the penetrating glow of release

In between the trees, hanging low

The leaves like stories, they call to me.

In the still of the night,

You carry me.

My arms laced around your neck

My eyes shut tight as I sink into you

As you carry me down the path.

The moon stares with its penetrating glare,

Into this vast space, you hold me through.

Fireflies drift above us,

It winks at us in secret compromise.

The water, an expanse- it embraces me as I sink.

A butterfly becomes a part of me for just one moment

As it lands without a sound on my finger, its wings carry so much time in this world- for only just a moment.

Further and further in I'm drawn,

Our heartbeats weave their song when I say your name.

This light that bears all that we love from the middle of the room.

I close my eyes, fingers intertwined within mine.

I walk with you as twilight enters the woods.

And then I float while you held me,

Holding me adrift.

For only just a moment,

I float above it all.

And it has become forever when I realize:

You are who I am and this world has become powerless, where we stand.

And that's all for now!

Music of a Life

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.- Leon J. Suenes

Hello all!

Here is a written piece that I have written in dedication to my boyfriend Tim, in light of his upcoming birthday- it is simply that, and I hope that all of you readers enjoy it!

Music of a Life

I'll take you to the sea,

By the shores, I shall lay my head against your warm face.

Enthrall me with your silent whispers.

The sky above us is our living canvas.

The stars a thousand elsewheres above us.

Stripped we are, of nothing more than just the glide of your wings, beating above the noise of Imperfection.

You lifted my heart up higher than any of the dreams in Infinity.

Hold me close for Im afraid to spin away

This sphere we fall gracefully under, bursts with the music of a long-forgotten symphony.

Each day, I have never stopped thinking about you, I hold them like petals wrapped so lovingly in my hands.

The music, it bounds us in sinking harmony, it carries me to you, no matter where I stand in this world.

Here's to believing, defining our strength, our landscape.

Here's to the music of our lives... let us then walk in our never-ending field of hope and endurance.

For that is all we need, and all that we can ever want.

"A dream, what else?"

Life is a pure flame,

and we live by an invisible sun within us.
-Sir Thomas Brown

Hello all!

Summer has in fact, arrived on my doorstep, and I am ever graceful for its presence.

There is such a greater heightened notion of sensation, of an awareness more acute than any other time before.

Each day, I am always thankful for what I have, the people surrounding me, things that I see when I set off to explore.

Within this realm, I feel a quiet ease whenever I see morning light entering through the window.

Lately, I've been rising with the sun, and there is something ethereal about seeing the glow of light slowly approaching its full grace- a calm grandeur and noble simplicity that I need to gain more upon the daily ordeals within my life.

Sometimes, it's the small details and the simple things that often can compose a surprising leverage of strength unlike anything seen.

So laugh a bit more, love a bit more, and dream to the fullest extent.

I'll build my world of dreams around you

Everyday contains a never-ending fascination from me. From slow walks to the calm grandeur of early mornings where the sun creates a warmth that no other can penetrate, where even the base of one's spine can lock in some of this immense pleasure.

I spend this weekend doing much appreciated relaxation after a bumpy road of being so busy with the things that come my way in life. Made interesting desserts (which I helped in making chocolate truffles) as well as stepping in to a favorite tea shop in the city called Tao Tea Leaf (934 Yonge St) that is absolutely a tea lover's haven.

The best part of this amazing weekend (with gorgeous weather to complement it) was spending it with the people you love. I felt healed somewhat to be able to absorb with an open heart to be able to share romantic and funny moments with the one you care for most in the world.

I also slipped the chance of reading some Keats... especially his letters to the love of his life, Fanny Brawne. With the rise of Morning, I can feel a trace of his words embracing me, leaving me in a state of utter bliss.

Love is in fact the biggest risk one would ever take in one's life, but like in lightning when it strikes, that beautiful channel of endearing desire and sighs of a beautiful release, can be felt once in a lifetime, and we are ever fortunate if we are able to experience wholeheartedly such an emotion.

My world is within these infinite reality of separate cinematic worlds. From Amelie to Moulin Rouge, the inspiration and dreams live on. Were it that I had no other option, I would have still pursued all that I can be and all that I want my life to paint out. Perfection and expectation lives through us, but I find that such small moments and minor details of something great and amazing in your life, it can last and melt all the winter months of the year.