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"there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock"
- Charles Bukowski

There are 24 hours in a day, and 365 days in a year, we all have the opportunity to do something amazing, and if things don't work out today, we always have the option of starting over tomorrow.

I am grateful for:
second chances.
fresh starts.
shooting stars.
smiles.
warm hugs.
cold hardwood floors on winter mornings.
butterfly kisses.
belly laughs.
good friends.
my life.

what are you thankful for?
what makes you smile?
what is your passion?
I'd really like to know.

p.s. hello, my name is ashley and this is a glimpse into the madness that is my mind.

*Avatar Photo taken by Yougo Jeberg in Ventura, CA. August 2012.

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May 21, 2013
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tylerknott: Typewriter Series #420 by Tyler Knott Gregson

tylerknott:

Typewriter Series #420 by Tyler Knott Gregson


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May 21, 2013
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"Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be."

~ Albert Camus (via wendesgray)

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May 21, 2013
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awelltraveledwoman: I could do this all day everyday and never tire…

awelltraveledwoman:

I could do this all day everyday and never tire…


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May 21, 2013
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"No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life asleep.
It was literally true: I was going through life asleep. My body had no more feeling than a drowned corpse. My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. ‘Hold tight,’ I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to."

~ Haruki Murakami, Sleep (via larmoyante)

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May 21, 2013
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I have a photoshoot with a lovely man on thursday and I talked to him for the first time tonight and he has just the tiniest hint of a southern accent but when he really tries he can bring it out full force and for some reason I just started laughing when he went full on southern so he asked me if he’d have to be on good behavior when we shoot so that I don’t start laughing until I cry and I told him that he would probably have to be and then he started talking in his accent again and I started laughing again.

my god:

I really,really adore strangers. 

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May 21, 2013
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taylormccutchan:

11 reasons to go to the coast of northern California 

this summer

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May 21, 2013
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Tonight I asked a boy to kiss me.

He serenaded me with his guitar and listened to old vinyl records with me and he asked me how my day went and he held me and made me laugh.

but when he was ready to fall asleep I told him that I should probably let him sleep and head home and he asked me why, I didn’t know how to answer that question so I just said ” why what?” and he asked why I wouldn’t just stay the night, unless something was wrong. He thought that he had done something to make me not want to stay and I felt such an ache in my heart right then that I jumped back into the bed and kissed him and smiled and told him that nothing was wrong, I just had to work in the morning….

but I think I might have lied.

I think something is wrong.

I can’t sleep next to people.

ever since William, waking up next to people leaves a terrible feeling in my chest, I feel trapped, stuck, cornered, I’m afraid I can’t like people back if they like me, I fall for people who don’t give a shit and treat me terribly but when people want to stick around I automatically head for the hills, I don’t know why I do it, maybe I’ve been left so many times ( by william, by friends, by my own father) that the idea of people staying, the idea of getting attached and having them leave eventually, is too much for my mind to process, so I shut it down before it can happen. I’m so incredibly screwed up that I just cannot be open to the idea of something more than nothing. because good things end.nothing ever really lasts, so why get your hopes up? why not just…. leave before you can get hurt.

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May 21, 2013
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cottoncase:

gimme

theo and maude.

I’ve only met theo but they do make an adorable couple.

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May 21, 2013
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"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection."

~ The Bhagavad Gita  (via thatkindofwoman)

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May 21, 2013
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deeephoney: Breathe through it and release anything that doesn’t serve you 💕

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Breathe through it and release anything that doesn’t serve you 💕


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