The Pride and Prejudice soundtrack always brings me to a bright & airy summer's day spent reading and solitary adventuring... soft shades of pink, mauve, and light green against a cloudless sky

Romantic, reflective, with drops of lavender melancholy and golden optimism.

a kaleidoscopic yin yang ( Read more... )

So simple, yet so beautiful ( Read more... )

...aaaannnnd I'm up late again discussing the Cosmos with my friends, when I have class tomorrow at 9am

some things never change :)

So I know the concept of Highly Sensitive Person has been circulated throughout the internet for the last year or two now. I am pretty happy that it has, since high sensitivity is a very real thing. I will be a facilitator of an HSP support group this fall, to help other HSPs feel less alone and to make sense of a huge puzzle piece of their ( Read more... )

Message to my sister, 25 November, 2014 ( Read more... )

I've finally realized I'll never be able to be in a crowd of people and feel fine (unless I start dancing where I just lose myself in the music and my feelings, and am finally able to forget everyone else around). Crowds are always an energetic assault to my nervous system and I just want to curl up in a ball and hide from being so overwhelmed. I ( Read more... )

Music of my soul, lately.

My heart is finally--albeit slowly--integrating the pain into the rest of "me." And I see that it only made my life tapestry more beautiful.

An 8th grade girl came into the counseling office crying her eyes out. So after talking to her a little, we read and discussed a colorful children's book together that made her smile and stop crying. Then we talked about the both beautiful and lonely experiences of being a sensitive person, Edgar Allen Poe, self-awareness, and why books, poetry, ( Read more... )

And yet.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm going to be the one who ends up committing suicide. Being so optimistic can be so isolating. It makes me wonder if that's why so many people lose their idealism.

Still, I march on.

I cannot, I will not let my flame go out.

Maybe I'm actually bipolar.

The rapid cycling type.

I swear, within the last hour I've been super ( Read more... )