late at night i like to design web sites in muse and look at pictures of mountains on tumblr i hope to one day climb
June 2013
3 posts
my hair still smells like the sea.
May 2013
7 posts
“i feel like the Internet now originates from Tumblr”
—@bereftofreason
“Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.”
—The Dark Knight (via ahorton92)
“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”
—Elizabeth Taylor (via thatkindofwoman)
life update
it’s really tough freelancing at this point in my career. i have to make decisions that i don’t want to (or know how to) make, i don’t get perks. i have to force myself to wake up early and go to bed early even though nobody is telling me to because i pretty much make my own deadlines. i have a weekend job so that i have health insurance, and i have to document every time i get paid so that i hopefully don’t owe a ton in taxes next year. but - i have things to be thankful for. i get to freelance in an office full of creatives i was an intern for (they let me stick around) that i occasionally help out. i live in a good city full of opportunities and good people. here are some things i’ve learned:
surround myself with creative and supportive people
learn my resources
{try to} do what seems interesting
do only what you love
work for companies you love
don’t be afraid to ask questions
don’t be afraid.
“There are 7 billion people on this planet who I have not met,
and 195 countries I have not visited.
Yet I am stuck in this insignificant town,
Being pressured into making decisions about my future,
When I barely even know who I am” —Unknown (via endangerment)
and 195 countries I have not visited.
Yet I am stuck in this insignificant town,
Being pressured into making decisions about my future,
When I barely even know who I am” —Unknown (via endangerment)
April 2013
6 posts
#unexpectedconversations
#expectations
today i learned a little about fighting for what you want and not being afraid
March 2013
18 posts
new theme and updates on my website. business cards in hand. ready to go meet some people tomorrow night, and dress real fancy for charleston fashion week.
Play
February 2013
3 posts
January 2013
4 posts
“Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change the locks even on the house he’s never visited. You lucky, lucky girl. You have an apartment just your size. A bathtub full of tea. A heart the size of Arizona, but not nearly so arid. Don’t wish away your cracked past, your crooked toes, your problems are papier mache puppets you made or bought because the vendor at the market was so compelling you just had to have them. You had to have him. And you did. And now you pull down the bridge between your houses, you make him call before he visits, you take a lover for granted, you take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. Make the first bottle you consume in this place a relic. Place it on whatever altar you fashion with a knife and five cranberries. Don’t lose too much weight. Stupid girls are always trying to disappear as revenge. And you are not stupid. You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”
—Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell (via wethinkwedream)
worst eyebrows - best advice
I feel scared a lot of the times. I feel that because I am alive, I have a duty to find what’s best for me, and to chase after the rest of my life with endless ambition. This means discipline, but it also means freedom. This welcomes a lot of hardship, because discipline is not easy.
My expectations? I’m not sure. But. I am producing good work in a great agency, I am surrounded by passionate people, and while I feel scared, I am so curious about my future. I will continue to make great work, and try to be giving of my time to others. I am a small tree in a large forest, where all of our roots are connected underneath.
December 2012
4 posts
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
—Margaret Atwood (via kari-shma)
“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
—John Green (via papertown-s)
