"Romanticism is seeing Infinity in everyday things"

Just came home from multivocal/polyphony singing class and feel so well. Ah. Nice way to end the day :)
A day that has spinned so fast yet so enjoyable.
One of those days you talk about something with someone and you start thinkin about it everytime you do what you and that someone were talking about. ...Still there? Ok, well. This afternoon I had an inspiring little conversation with my singing teacher about the fact that there's always something good to take from every experience, something to get in terms of positive energy or benefits in general, and that we always should try and look at every moment we're living with brand new eyes, in order to see and get the best of it. "Yeah, clear" one would say. It's something we already knew and heard a thousand times.
But stop and think about it just for a while.
It's just amazing the way building brand new eyes for ourselves with our own hands can make our life a big deal better. Negativity from people and facts cannot affect us or cannot do it the way it did before. It helps us not to depend from external factors when it comes to reactions. Of course, things happen and they cause a reaction in us. But when we have built positivity inside ourselves we already have it and just need to apply it.
Then everyone uses this capacity in his own way and that's normal and okay :)
And when we have our eyes and heart and mind strengthened with positivity, everything has new colors, new shape, new grain, new smell. Everything seems to expand itself in a way that goes beyond what we perceive from sensitive experience but yet it seems to be immanent in it.

And just yesterday I found a note on an old copybook of a quotation from my great History of Contemporary Art professor when I was at the first year in university. It said:

"Romanticism is seeing Infinity in everyday things"

My heart just stumbled, 'cause I think I can definitively say this quotation perfectly describes my life and my way to look at the world around me every single day.
Well...it must have been a sign :)
Or maybe I'm just an incurable Romantic soul, as I have always been. 

Another day full of things to see Infinity in :)

God natt! :) 

Inspiring and heart-warming day ♥

Tired as hell tonight and with an unpleasant headache round the corner but some days are just worth spending some words about :)

Drived my way to the university among the green fields of the countryside, under a gray sky of chubby clouds, singing loud and tapping my foot at the sound of Mumford & Sons and just felt blessed.

Then spent some hours with my favorite ebony-haired girl ♥
We just couldn't get enough of talking and talking and talking. About music, about passions, about what we have done and what we'll do, about points of view on life and people, about everything. Amazing how, after all this time, we can't get enough of it yet. Amazing how she can understand my thoughts, my feelings, my impressions - even those ones I am not able to express in words - so well. Amazing how I can laugh my heart out with pure joy in her company. Amazing how every day is a new adventure when we're together. And I just felt blessed that I chose to sit next to her that day so long ago. 

We could also enjoy an hour with another friend I can't see so often and it was great, 'cause she's one of the funniest and easiest people I know :)

Then, among the crowded shelves of the library, an inspiring meeting. A super-nice German guy on his journey in our country...by foot! So inspiring to hear his kind voice tell his story, his experiences, his impressions; so inspiring to look at his shoes that had already walked 2000 kms; so inspiring to see the light in his eyes while expressing his wonder and admiration for the woods and sea and the smell of pine trees; so inspiring to feel his excitation at the idea of visiting Sicily by summer and then to go on towards my beloved Scandinavia (that I recommended him so warmly, of course!) across Eastern Europe. 

The day went on with all those normal things and words and gestures that sometimes can be so special, even the smallest one.

After a talk on the phone with my man, under the rain tapping on my umbrella and after a journey homewards in the rainy countryside, once again with my four English friends, I came home and find a message from the elder cousin with whom I grew up that made my heart overflow with Emotion and warmth.
That's what the message said, more or less: 

"Everytime I look at you as you grew up, mature, everytime I see the one that has by this time become a 'woman', I inevitably see that tiny little girl with a smile always printed on her face and with lots and lots of energy to play and learn...I miss so much those light-hearted moments too!"

Then time to fix some things and to start feeling electric for a new adventure is beginning next Monday and, well...we will see how it'll turn out to be ;)

I've seen my man, even just for a while, I've laid my hands on the piano keys and now I'm just sipping my chamomile and will soon open a good book before slipping into the world of dreams :)

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Last but not least...

This day was born one of my greatest sources of Emotion, inspiration and happiness. My actual life would really be a big deal different if he weren't born that 28th November of 40 years ago.
So...

Grattis på födelsedagen, Jesper! :3

..Jag hoppas att allt är bra nu.

Grace in your heart, flowers in your hair

Tonight, pictures from a colorful Autumn Sunday :)

It couldn't have been nicer. A long walk in the green and yellow and red and brown, under a changing sky. With grace in our hearts. :) 

My man. He just likes to take pics of me taking pics :°)

And then, when dusk came...

..time for Tea & Cake :)

Indeed a lovely weekend.
Love, talks, Music, Nature, cheerfulness, Guinness in the wooden half-light, nights with our "Gigantic American Geek" friends Sheldon, Leonard, Raj and Howard + Penny, laughs and all those tender little things I adore. 

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And it is also thanks to them that I feel so Inspired these days. 
With their Music that "springs right out of the heart" - as a dear person said - they've colored my world with a new soundtrack and brought poetry into my everything at the sound of banjo melodies, moor scent and winter winds. 

Thank you, sirs.

Oh God, I've fallen in Love ♥ :)

Happiness is... :)

Happiness is drinking half a pint of dear old Guinness at the dark wooden counter of a crowded pub.
Happiness is red cheeks and the overwhelming will to hop and jump and laugh and live.
Happiness is falling asleep together and waking up later than we use to on a really rainy and foggy morning, perfect to stay home in coziness and tenderness.
Happiness is reading on the sofa, wrapped in a patchwork patterned blanket, while he plays video games.
Happiness is cooking mushroom soup for lunch. Our mushroom soup. Forever. :)
Happiness is having tea & cake in a cake shop while outside darkness has already spread its mantle.
Happiness is cuddles and kisses and jokes and laughs.
Happiness is when you don't want the day day to end.

Perfect weekend ♥

Happiness is also him bringing you your swim slippers at the pool edge when you pop out the swimming pool.
Happiness is also just sitting in the car, talking and never wanting to get off.
Happiness is also feeling a sense of protection towards a little snail which is on the window glass.


Happiness is that sense of tenderness which fills your heart and keeps it spinning and beating and spinning and beating... ♥

"Even a gray sky is full of notes"

The sky's pretty strange these days here. 
Big nuanced clouds and right behind them, a bright golden sun. The sky grows gray on the west but then it throws the big blue open on the sea.
But this is the Autumn Magic.

That magic that seems to invest everything with a silver and golden light. Everything. Every single little thing.

The discovery of a new musical "love", that gives everything a brand new score.

Gray waves that dash on the shoreline and on the rocks while listening to dear, old, forever beloved Come Clarity. 

A run by the sea watching the fishermen in their flannel shirt and wool caps rearrange the boats and sell fish in their little wooden huts, while a warm feeling of poetry fills your heart.

A bike-ride under the sun with the amazingly Beautiful company of Mumford & Sons and an (apparently) unmotivated smile on your face.

A walk to Granny's, caressed by the last rays of a setting sun, while the first cool November air makes your eyes a little bit narrowed and your nose cold.

The warm light of Granny's living room, the scent of childhood and that feeling of re-living impressions from a long long time ago. When outside it was dark but inside there were crayons and paper. Just like Proust's madeleine.

A walk back home and an inexplicable want to hop and run and dance.

Studying in harmony, enjoying every new knowledge.

Singing and wanting to do it more and more and more, as if it was never enough.

A night of serious talks, projects, jokes, laughs and cuddles with your man.

And the heart and the soul that seem about to implode with energy, that tremble with inspiration, an inspiration that never leaves you, whatever you do.

From last Sunday afternoon. A really rainy one.
♥

Now, time to start a new weekend. The sky's still gray, more than it has been these past days. But let's try and make it "full of notes".

Energy :)

Hi everyone!
Weekend started really good, I can say. Harmony and Energy are still in the air and that's just great.

Thursday evening was just super, talking, smiling, laughing and listening to stories from another time and place round a table, eating very good fish, drinking bubbly white wine, enjoying the company of nice and pleasant people :)

Yesterday everything was painted in tenderness and tranquillity. 

A sunny day spent with Plato, bike rides, singing lesson, jogging by the sea, studying, energy, smiles and cuddles scent.
In the evening studying piano with my boyfriend, lots of laughs at the errors but never giving up, then watching "Back to the Future II" (love that trilogy! :D) and spending the rest of the night with our old friends Marty and Doc :) This is my idea of fun. This is my idea of serenity. :) ♥

And this morning has been fully - totally - completely - occupated by...

TIDING AND REORGANIZING THE WAAARDROOOBE!!!!!!!!

It took the whole morning and a bit of the early afternoon for the cleanings, but it was necessary and now I'm soooo satisfied :)
And you know, it feels better when you can make it kinda funny somehow! ;)

Now time to enjoy the weekend! 

Enjoy yours too ;)

Harmony :)

Such a nice day today.
A lot of tiny little daily delights and that feeling of warmness, sweetness and cosiness inside. 

New entries on my desktop!  Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ

Got 'em during a mother-daughter afternoon of shopping to buy stuff for the house :)

And after that...

Dinner is served!

Köttbullar med potatismos och lingonsylt!
(that's to say: Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and Swedish lingonberry jam)

...Yummi! :9
I'm quite proud of it :)

Goodnight ♥

Kokuriko-zaka Kara

Yesterday we went and saw the new masterpiece from Studio Ghibli, "コクリコ坂から Kokuriko-zaka Kara" ("From Up on Poppy Hill", "La Colline aux Coquelicots", "La Collina dei Papaveri"), directed by Goro Miyazaki and scripted by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa. 

What to say. An unspeakable poetry. A daintiness that can only be felt on the soul when it comes to rest upon it. A Beauty that makes you stop and think over the real meaning of such an attribute and over its over-widespread application. A Beauty that warms your heart and paints the world in your eyes with different, wonderful colours. 
Indeed a Masterpiece. 
Definitely one of my favourites movies ever. 

♥

Even if I had to shed some tears in the end (;P) indeed the best way to conclude a tender and special evening with someone dear :3 ♥

Breathing home ♥

Kaffe och Kanelbulle
Dofta av hem :)

A cloudy Sunday. A little scent of home. Tenderness and cosiness. Little flowers patterns, pastel colors and simple toys. Cuddles from a four legged friend. Dreams and laughs.
Happiness :)