So deep is the night...

 But night is giving us also deep sleep. When body is switching off the lights, mind keeps working in the dark. Or maybe that's the moment when it has the most light? All those prophetic or deep psychological dreams...are coming from our complicated machinery- brain. "Sleep of reason produces monsters". Sleep of body produces ideas. And...energy. It's amazing how body can regenerate while sleeping. And then we wake up in the morning, ready to live another day.  

Pink Diva

 In the morning I was watching some of National Geographic programmes and it made me think that people and animals (or animals and people...) have so much in common! Gestures, face expression, being sociable or solitary, maternal instinct, etc. 

 I remember some classes, when lecturer asked us about an animal with which we identify- the animal in us. I chose dragonfly. Why? Maybe it'll be a topic for another post. But now I feel more like chameleon. I'm in a new enviroment where I have to wear pink blouse as my uniform. And even if I didn't wear pink before, I adapted to this colour quite fast. And to the rules, conditions, expectations. What's more, it gives me... sort of happiness! And now I wonder- if it's good to chameleon? Maybe instead of adapting to the conditions I should adapt the conditions to myself?

A day before December

 It's a day before December. I'm thinking about something transitory, something hard to catch and describe. Like a moment when one month turns into another, when one year turns into another. Time. Would time exist if mankind did not invent its terms, clocks, calendars, etc.? Minutes, hours, months are artificial division. And we can't touch them, catch them, save them for later. Does people from other place in the world have more time than us? Does everyone have the same amount of it? We have clocks to show us the time but what if everyone would have it own hour? Who would be right then? Time... More complicated thing than I thought! 

 

Working space

I'm working on having working space now. A room is not complete with only bed and few boxes with my things. I need something more... Another great invention of humanity- a desk and a chair. Power of simplicity!
Look, how many things I can do having them:
# draw!
# write letters
# work on my computer
# make plans and to do lists
# chair is the best clothes hanger
# do nothing, just sit and drink tea/coffee/... and wait for inspirations
# cut out photos from magazines and then glue them into one of my notebooks
# .....

Before the Christmas rush

 I feel the Christmas pressure already on my back. List of people who I want to give presents is growing. Ideas for perfect gifts disappeared (why, o why I didn't write them down?!). Will I wake up one day and decide that I actually hate Christmas becouse of this madness? Well, this year I'm close to do that.

 My friend posted interesting appeal on her fb wall: to support small art galleries, shops, artists or friends that create something nice, becouse the money they'll earn, will go directly to their hands, for their needs. Not to big companies, that pay the lowest salaries to their workers and look for the cheapest labor force. Worth considering! It made me rearrange my shopping lists and plans. Imagine how positively world would change, if we'd choose to support people and their work, not corporations and their business plans. 

A girl with dragonfly necklace

Do you think we have cocoons? Like butterflies have? That we transform, change into new us? Do you get from time to time the feeling of discomfort in your own body, with your own thoughts, with yourself in general?

I get that feeling. And for a while I feel uncomfortable with myself. But then the new perspectives open. Some walls are breaking in me, I discover new spaces, feelings, new me. Maybe butterflies transform only once but human beings transform all their lives?

I'm getting old, you know? Becouse I look at little girls from primary school and I think: I was like them long time ago! How many years, problems, joys and toys ago it was! And how crazy ways of life are to bring me where I'm now.

Flowers in your hair

Wear a flower in your hair from time to time. Why? To colour up everyday routine. To be less serious and more feminine. To surprise. To do something differently. 

I found nice book lately in a book store which is a cafe at the same time. It was about fashion and about doing it by yourself. My favorite idea was to make a dress from round tablecloth. I have to try that! Extremely simple and looking nice. It made me think about how seldom we do something by ourselves. It's much easier to buy it but it is not that much fun. And where's the individuality there? I'm a big fan of Do It Yourself. DIY rules! :))