(Source: survivingtogether, via mykindafairytalee)
// Beautiful words//
According to Robert Beard, these are the top 100 most beautiful words in the English Language: list.
Do you agree? Which words do you think are beautiful? Post your opinion here.
Two days from now I will post a list compiled of your responses unless if nobody replies or if I am involved in an untimely accident (resulting in a gruesome death or where my fingers have been cut off or both) before then.
(via andyouwhisperyouloveme)
-
Lovecraft
ee cummings - You Are Tired (I Think) - (fragment)
(Source: likeafieldmouse, via umbrellicious-deactivated201306)
Geoff Lawton's kitchen garden powered by duck water
Here’s a really clever Permaculture idea. So simple, yet so effective. Right next to Geoff Lawton’s kitchen garden is a duck pen with a recycled Spa that the ducks love to use. Ducks will splash happily away in any pond and poop and muddy the water. This duck water is high in nutrient and is usually thrown away. Rather than throw the water out, Geoff connected the spa to a tap in the kitchen garden to drain off any nutrients. Hooking up a garden hose or watering can and you have a terrific nutrients and additives that the ducks produce to give your vegetables a boost.
Direct fertilizer. What a simple but effective idea.
As Geoff explains to us whilst we were filming him in the duck pen, “We have manured mulch and manured water that we take to the Kitchen Garden. We have happy ducks and we have a very large population of worms that the ducks are very happy about!”
(via spiritualconnections)
—
—Cecily Parsley lived in a pen,
And brewed good ale for gentlemen;
Gentlemen came everyday,
Till Cecily Parsley ran away.Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes, Beatrix Potter
// A Scottish Gaelic proverb about the day is://
Thig an nathair as an toll
Là donn Brìde,
Ged robh trì troighean dhen t-sneachd
Air leac an làir.
“The serpent will come from the hole
On the brown Day of Bride,
Though there should be three feet of snow
On the flat surface of the ground.”Said on Bride’s Day 1ST Feb
(Source: aseaofquotes, via roseapples)
A woman Taken by The Wind...: A Breathtaking Fantasy
My dearest, here I am planning a trip down the lane to the sea, in August as the sun is shining and you're there to comfort me. A breathtaking fantasy. Over the fields we will ramble picking fruit from God's bramble soft fruit for jelly & blackberry pie, oh happy day ~ sing I, sing I, as my eyes...
In the Finnish creation myth the world begins as a vast ocean, upon which floats Ilmatar, the daughter of the sky. She floated alone for centuries, yearning for companionship, until the sea falls in love with her and impregnates her.
For centuries more she continued to float along, still pregnant, until she was visited by a sea bird. She allows the bird to create a nest on her knees, where the bird lays an egg. As the bird warmed the egg it became hotter and hotter, until Ilmatar could no longer stand it and dislodged the egg from it’s nest. The egg broke, an from the two fragments were formed the sun, moon, heavens and earth.
When she walks upon the land Ilmatar’s footsteps create lakes, the movements of her arms create beaches and cliffs; she forms the land. Later, Ilmatar gave birth to Vainamoinen, who became the first man to walk on land. He is met by a boy bearing a bag of seeds, which Vainamoinen uses to grow all of the plants in the world. One of these grows to an oak so large it begins to block the sun, so Ilmatar sends a man of copper who fells the tree so that life could be restored to the world.
(via 13thmoon)
(Source: patce, via iinfinitea)
Music. Pens. Writing. History. Butterflies. Flowers. Sea. Rain. Sunshine. Opera. Food. Star-Gazer. Learner. Reader. Spoonie. Chronic Illness. Romanced.
