Inspiration Monday.

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Now I'm reading a great great book by P. Coelho, "The Zahir" - I love it!
It's one of those books that gives you answers to the questions you've been caring around for some time - it really suits me right at this moment.
Here's one of the quotes for your week inspiration:
All you have to do is to pay attention: lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.

Have a good one!
xoxo
Ak.

a midsummer's dream.

Just for this evening I want to go back to my summer!
Just give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know ~  J. Keats

P. S. This picture is taken last summer in Jurmala, Latvia. What a lovely beach, what a lovely weather and what a lovely book was in my hands that day!

Don't forget to warm up your hearts with summer memories (it's already November, you're allowed to do that) & have a sunny thursday, my lovelies!

xoxo,
Ak.

dandelion wine.

 photos via My Modern Metropolis

Regine Ramseier, a German artist, had an idea to stop the time, to stop ever lasting changing and growing processes, so she carefully picked 2,000 dandelions in their cloud-like form and sprayed a gentle adhesive on them, as if it treating them with water from the fountain of youth. The dandelions were then transferred by car to a little white room where they were hung.
So lovely project of art! I'd love to stand in this room alone for a little while :).

P. S. Remember the book Dandelion wine written by Ray Bradbury? It stole my heart! It's the best book about the childhood I ever read - so sincere & somehow magic!

xoxo,
Ak.

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have a quiet weekend.

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Yesterday I had a very stressful day, it was my first practice as a waitress (I've learned to make a latte!!), so today I'm going to stay in my bed with my book - aaaall day long, of course!
Have a calm & cozy weekend, million bisous!
xoxo,
Ak.

[...] if I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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I always have some books in my mind that I know that someday I'm going to read it, so in order not to forget, I'm going to make a list:

• The Brothers Karamazov by F. Dostojevski;
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude by G. G. Marquez;
• The Red And The Black by Stendhal;
• The Night In Lisbon by E. M. Remark;
• 1984 by G. Orwell;
• 1Q84 by H. Murakami;
• In Search Of Lost Time by M. Proust;
• The Beautiful And The Damned by F. S. Fitzgerald;
• Ignorance by M. Kundera. 
  
  Tomorrow I will defenately have a book-afternoon with a cup of green tea by my side!
  xoxo,
  Ak.