happy

how could this not make you happy?

ps. went swimming today for the first time in a long long time.

i liked it.

a reminder

"I do not want to be thin. I want to be strong.
Yesterday, I went on the most incredible 15 mile bike ride along the coast of Kyushu, and I thought, this is why. This is what’s important. I want to feel my heart beating and every negative thought and toxic feeling being flushed out of me; I want to feel the sun on my face and the strength in my arms and the muscles of my thighs carrying me along, working, doing something.
What I didn’t realise, all those years I was criticizing my body, is that I do not want to sit around and look pretty. I want to move. I want to be alive in every sense of the word.
And I am, I am, I am."

a little cliche, but a good reminder.

i don't remember where the picture is from, but i liked her.

(text source: http://oh-papillon.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-10-16T11%3A21%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-results=1)

in the mood for fall

j. crew fall wants/styling inspiration.

madelove

madewell fall lookbook.

enjoying the styling.

fall

jazzed for fall.

more to come.

(images from herschel).

satomi

when we seal the deal i think this is what i would want.

or even just for fun one day.

take me away