“Out of everything I’ve experienced, pain of abandonment hurts the worst. Knowing that a person I loved, protected, needed and embraced never saw anything of value in me breaks me like nothing else does.”
— you didn’t even see a human being when you were looking at me.
““Not being where you want to be in life has to become motivation to get where you want to be. Otherwise you’ll start drowning in self doubt and self pity, and settle for the life you’ve got instead of moving towards the life you want.””
— Excerpt from the book I’ll never write // I’m having a before birthday life crisis
New Exquisite Galaxy Inspired Ceramics by Amanda Joy Wells
Oklahoma-based artist Amanda Joy Wells from Sublime Pottery Studio creates exquisite galaxy inspired glassware inspired by the beauty of nebulas. The sublime pieces allow you to cup the cosmos in your hand.
Wells says, “I make my mugs to offer as a tool, for those who use them, to create moments of self-care and reflection, to create a little daily ceremony or ritual that is special… a sublime moment in your day.”
Each unique piece glimmers beautiful and is dishwasher and microwave-safe. Get them here!
Timing is everything. If I’ve learned anything in the past year it’s that if it’s meant to be it will happen. If you’re meant to be with someone it will happen. Have patience.
Everyone always wants to talk about Hook or Pan. Everyone always wants to debate which one is good and which is evil - who we’re supposed to follow and who we aren’t. The Peter Pan mythos has pretty much shrunk down to nothing but Hook and Pan (Hook, SyFy’s Neverland, Pan, OUAT, etc). Occasionally Tinkerbell factors in (Hook, Disney’s Tinkerbell, OUAT, etc). There’s one character, however, that always gets sidelined - which is puzzling since they are the main character of both the play and the book. That character is, of course, Wendy Darling.
Peter Pan is Wendy’s coming of age story. Wendy who decides to run away from home. Wendy who realizes that she must grow up - and that there’s no shame in that. Wendy who sees Peter as deficient and sees Hook as empty and decides that, no, she doesn’t want to be a part of that. Wendy gets the adventure she’s always wanted and she turns away because she realizes that it’s lacking. She’s the only one who truly sees the hollowness of being young forever. Barrie even says “You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than other girls.”
People always debate on who the hero is. When they learn that Peter could be horrid they assume it has to be Hook. Of course, the answer is that neither of them are the hero. Wendy is the hero of the story. You’re not supposed to be like Peter, who kept every good and bad aspects of being a child and can’t tell right from wrong. You’re not supposed to be Hook, either. He let go of everything childish and loving about him and became bitter and evil. They’re both the extreme ends of the scale. You’re supposed to fall in the middle, to hold onto the things about childhood that make it beautiful - the wonder, the imagination, the innocence - while still growing up and learning morality and responsibility. You’re not supposed to be Hook. You’re not supposed to be Peter Pan.