I don't want you to feel trapped on the landscape of my hand little ant, but I would like you to stay for a while...

Dinner Tonight

              {spicy avocado ramen}

A small, beautiful piece of the world

Love, Hattie <3

A little piece of ocean

got stuck inside a shell.

It will let you hear its secrets

if you promise not to tell

Tutt tutt, looks like rain

It's a bird! It's a rock! It's...

A very unfortunate grapefruit.

A List of Things

goldfinches

messages that never sent

people that never truly understand each other

cheap plastic salt and pepper shakers 

movies you saw but cannot remember

brown paper bags

the little green tabs that keep Starbucks drinks from spilling 

breadcrumbs

pennies 

slippers

Things forgotton, floating around in your purse, then found and remembered 

Things remembered, unfound 

unrecognizable substances spilled on the ground 

tree branches 

toenail clippers

lost time found in inconvenient places

hair

the soles of shoes

words 

rust

Pictures

I rather like the way we say "take a picture," as if you were stealing a piece of a moment and keeping it for yourself.

~a challange~ (appreciating awkwardness)

I have always been one to obsessively avoid awkward moments and situations. I will be sure to know exactly where to go and what to do whenever I embark on a new experience (things like riding a train by myself for the first time- which I haven't actually done yet). I also sometimes feel the need to say pointless things merely to avoid that awkward silence around people who you don't know well enough to sit in silence with yet.

However. I have decided to challenge myself on this point. 
I have decided to consciously appreciate awkwardness.
Awkwardness is beautiful in its own way. It is so, undeniably human.
Everyone in the world experiences awkwardness.. it is a fact of life, and like any undeniable fact of life it deserves some notice and appreciation.  

Since my decision to appreciate awkwardness I have had a handful of lovely or important conversations which began with (or were brought about by) an awkward silence or introduction.

So awkwardness, as much as we hate it, can actually bring about good things, and even when it doesn't, it deserves to be appreciated because it is so undeniably human.

A doodled tape-head monster

Music Recommendations (for those who appreciate brilliant odd things)

This is what I am listening to. The album cover is a pretty good illustration of the realm of reality which this music occupies.

Why hello! Its very nice to see you here
this is a new space
welcome!
in this space I will be posting the strange things I find in the world, accompanied by my own strange musings.
visit me whenever you like!

(love Hattie)