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Katherine

.. Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. ~Katherine Mansfield..

About Me


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I consider myself to be a calm, smiley, introvert. ..
Favourite moment; descending into my sunny garden full of sunshine, birds, flowers and cats carrying a book and holding a glass of wine! 'How peaceful the sky looked, as though it was smiling tenderly.'~Katherine MansfieldI like; ~ books, books, books ~~ being in my garden tending my plants, looking and listening - it really is my piece of paradise ~~ cats - the most beautiful of all creatures ~~ art ~~ red wine ~~ Bloomsbury group ~~ PreRaphaelites ~~ photography ~~ Northern Ballet Theatre ~~ bike rides by the river ~~ children's books ~~ fossils ~~ crystals ~~ vintage anything ~~ the smell of lavender ~~ Tim Piggot-Smith reading poetry ~~ listening to BBC's Radio 4 to familiar voices that inform and entertain me.
I collect books (never enough space but, old friends, you're going nowhere), old broaches displayed on a brown velvet scarf and oh....I seem to have alot of vases and old plates dotted around the house....and cat ornaments (aaargh)!
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'I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.' ~Emily Bronte'I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really,' ~Tennessee Williams

Music:

'I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us... we need the kind of books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.' ~Franz Kafka

Heroes:



My Blog

Sally Mann, photographer

"...I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the hea...
Posted by Katherine on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:12:00 PST

Ophelia

Ophelia ~ Arthur Rimbaud 1 On the calm black water where the stars are sleepingWhite Ophelia floats like a great lily ;Floats very slowly, lying in her long veils...- In the far-off woods you can hea...
Posted by Katherine on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:57:00 PST

PreRaphaelite Splendour

                          Beautiful poem for a beautiful painting 'Lying, robed in s...
Posted by Katherine on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:06:00 PST

The man with the beautiful eyes...

Charles Bukowski "Observation put into action is the essence of art.""Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."...
Posted by Katherine on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:21:00 PST

Francesca Woodman, Photographer

Francesca Woodman(1958~1981)  ...
Posted by Katherine on Wed, 21 May 2008 01:57:00 PST

Quotes from artists

In the realm of the blue air more than anywhere else one feels that the world is accessible to the most unlimited reverie....The world is....on the far side of an unsilvered mirror, there is an imagi...
Posted by Katherine on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:42:00 PST