This Could Have Been Us!!!

id much rather sleep away my whole life

And even now in the gathering dark of a late afternoon in December, of one more year stretching between us, I think of you. I remember.

- Tom Hansen, from "December Monologue,” Rattle #24 (Winter 2005).

Shout out to all the notes-app poems, love letters, secrets, novels, diary entries, bucket lists and lyrics that were hurredly typed into people’s phones at 3am and then hidden from the world and forgotten. Maybe one day you’ll open the app and laugh at how pretentious you were, or maybe you’ll smile at that part of yourself that noone else saw

Eva Green in The Dreamers (2003)

always mesmerises me

maria von trapp in 'the sound of music' 1965 dir. robert wise

how life has going on

‘Lady Bird‘, Greta Gerwig (2017) Money is not life’s report card. Being successful doesn’t mean anything in and of itself. It just means that you’re successful. But that doesn’t mean that you’re happy.

“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he’s to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry.”

— Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”