this post is an excerpt from something that i'm working on at the moment. i wanted to articulate my thoughts on how we spend such a great deal of our time focusing on what day it is, and what that means, when in reality we should focus on actually living these days. @wildpetals furthermore, after wishing away our mondays and tuesdays, we often reach the end of the week and comment on how quickly it's gone. and when the months move on and the seasons change, we can scarcely believe how fast time is going, and vow to...

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When I was younger, many of my peers shared my love of reading. At my elementary school, our teachers mandated that we all be reading a book at all times, but I like to think that most people would have read anyways. We all lived off of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, with the occasional Septimus Heap book thrown in, and books dominated much of our conversations. Reading was not something exceptional or out of the ordinary, it was something that we all did, something that most of us liked and quite a few of us loved. In...

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Creative is one of my favourite words (alongside constellation— I LOVE that word). Not only due to the way it sounds, but also because of its meaning.  If someone ever asks for me to give them some words that can aid in a description of myself, or a quality that I have that I take pride in, I’ll tell them that I’m creative. That’s the first quality that pops to mind when I think about myself, and I’m proud of that. I’m proud to be creative. Creativity means a lot to me. I believe that everyone is creative....

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Hello! It's Jemima here, although you may expecting Anna today. She's currently in a great show so couldn't post this week. Instead, she asked me to guest post and I thought I'd post a post from my blog that I know she loves and hopefully you will too! I often get asked (or hear/see other people getting asked) why feminism is relevant - or, at least, that’s implied. Here are 5 reasons why we need feminism. Believe me, there are many more. 1. The toys are split into two types: girls’ and boys’ Barbie dolls are targeted at...

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I am huge book nerd, and I always begin each year with all the release dates of all the books that I am looking forward to most, usually that newest installments of whatever book series I am currently obsessing over, fresh in my mind. Here are the book releases that I am looking forward to most this year (most of which involve magical mayhem): The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud If you are wondering when I will ever stop babbling about Jonathan Stroud's books, the answer is never! Stroud is a fantastic writer, and I am completely smitten...

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If there’s one thing I innately love, I think it would be the rain. The half-hearted drizzle, as much as it appears pathetic, even to me, I find it reassuring in a subtle way. The wind behind it pushes me forwards, hurrying my day so that I meet the next significant person in my life – someone who would have passed me by otherwise. An unsteady smile exchanged as a peace treaty after our umbrellas battle and shake their tears into our eyes. Original Picture Credit Lazy but steady rain is often despised by others. It gently tramples...

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I wrote recently on my individual blog, about my dislike for the phrase ‘new year, new me’, and why I feel the way that I do. Today, I want to discuss a little phrase I’ve thought of, and why I think that this could be a beneficial substitute.  ‘New year, no fear.’ This phrase centres around the idea of the new year be a daunting subject, with undue amounts of pressure. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to be different as soon as the clock strikes twelve. And often, when we may not achieve our...

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