Saturday 23 February 2013

Thoughtful Saturday



"Never cease wondering
for wonder defines the path of discovery"
Norman Hollendy

Tuesday 12 February 2013

Thoughtful Tuesday




"Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, 
but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, 
and stands confidently in the storms of spring, 
not afraid that afterward summer may not come. 
It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, 
who are there as if eternity lay before them, 
so unconcernedly silent and vast.
 I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: 
patience is everything!"

-Rainer Maria Rilke from Letters to a Young Poet


Sunday 3 February 2013

Thoughtful Sunday


"Being artful is pouring your soul into it.
When we’re giving our best, we’re artistic.
When we’re intentionally making something 
more beautiful, more understandable, 
more accessible, we’re artistic.
When we reach below the surface
and bring something thoughtful forward, 
we’re being artistic. 
It’s happening all the time. "

  - Danielle LaPorte, The Fire Starter Sessions


(handmade notebooks using fabric paper and a Japanese stab stitch binding)

Thoughtful Wednesday

"Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement – to get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes noth...