tangled
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights”. Maya Angelou Is it a coincidence? All playwrights and novelists from ancient Greek tragedies to contemporary movies and theatrical plays use stressful and extreme events to reveal their characters. Imitating real life, writers know very well that circumstances are the triggering events to bring to light our characteristics, our dispositions. Chancy events,…
Christmas paper star ornament ideas
This DIY project is maybe the easiest Christmas star ornaments I've ever tried in order to give a romantic vintage flair to our home Christmas decoration.
surface
“Nothing is more fragile than the surface”. Gilles Deleuze
presence
“Absence, the highest form of presence”. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
brown lake brown boat: a sepia effect story
“Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people. Where do the black trees go that drink here?”Sylvia Plath, Crossing the WaterRed brownish tones and creamy highlights are sepia photo characteristics. It gives them an old and archive impression. Sepia was the color made by cuttlefish’s ink. It comes from the ancient Greek word for cuttlefish, “σηπία”. Sepia ink was commonly used from ancient times, by Greek and Romans, until the painters of the 19th century. In the late 19th century, an iron-silver photography…
not expected
“Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez
how little we understand
Follow me on Facebook • Google+ • Bloglovin’waterfront, thessaloniki, greece “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us”. Socrates
we suffer more from imagination
“We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality” Lucius Annaeus Seneca
not everyone can see
Follow me on Facebook • Google+ • Bloglovin’ willow tree, laimos, prespes, greece “Everything has beauty, but not anyone can see”. Confucius
give it to others
Follow me on Facebook • Google+ • Bloglovin’ st.nicolaos stream, loutra pozar, aridaia, greece “One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others” Lao Tzu
just living is not enough
Follow me on Facebook • Google+ • Bloglovin’plaz koula, prespes, greece “Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower”. Hans Christian Andersen
Photos & Notes. My Windows Ache.
“So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.“ – Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets