By Lynda Barry  May 2016

Something I love about Ghibli films is how much care they put into animating the normal world. It makes everyday things like household chores seem so beautiful. After watching a Ghibli film, I feel more enchanted with the world, everyday tasks like cooking pasta or taking out rubbish feel more special. It’s honestly one of my favourite things.

kurt vonnegut, being good at things is not the point of doing them.

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

“bas iss intezaar se thak gaya hoon”

what do you mean i can’t read every book, study every academic subject, taste every food, live in every city in every country, visit every museum, listen to every single song ever produced, learn every language, meet every interesting person, memorize every particle of knowledge to ever exist ???

reading in bed. painting by marta astrain.

never settle… cultivate the life you want. crucially, remain patient.

― Andrei Tarkovsky, from Sculpting in Time

breaks my heart.

for you, a thousand times over.