on waiting.

How can we learn to value the concept of waiting for anything?

"The notion of value depends on our own investment in an object. If an object is to be valuable, we have to invest ourselves in it. There is no better investment than to give one's time, to wait for something. Most often, if one gets a desired object immediately, one's own being is not involved in that object, and the object remains impersonal, exchangeable, dispensable. It has nothing of ourselves in it."

- Harold Schweizer. On Waiting. 2011. 

sounds of summer.

...as we transition into autumn at the end of this week, I conclude:

sounds of summer:

the little girl two doors down singing a melody from "swan lake"

polish workers chatting and laughing away while refurbishing the house next door

bees buzzing mistaking the flowery table cloth for real poppies

little birdies chirping under rooftops

woodpecker on apricot tree

the soundscape of the lido

the crunch when biting into an ice-cream cone

paper - flipping the page of your summer read

water splashing - everywhere

conversations al fresco

always leave space for the divine

Photo: Jan Versweyveld

|| notes on Studio360 - TAVI GEVINSON interviews BEN WISHAW:

"your intuition is quicker than your intelligence"

"your job is not to judge your work, your job is to make it" 

"always leave space for the divine" 

yes , there are moments when you shouldn't embrace your inner child

|| Phoebe Prentice Terry on Emotional Spending

"a great deal of your impulses are not based on logic, but rather a very deep-rooted urge for instant gratification"

"inside all of us there is a needy, red-cheeked toddler who wants to throw herself on the floor and have a massive hissy fit because she wants something you don't actually need" 

procrastinate until you are sick of yourself. until then, enjoy the perks of procrastination.