repeat.repeat.repeat

The mustang kids are out
Rolling over hills and the roundabouts
White line, motor cade
Sweeter than your baby face

Small town gang got nothing to do
We got guns, got drugs, got the sun and the moon
We got big city plans but it always rains

And the sheriff is a crook and knows me, my name
I said mumma was insane and daddy was a criminal
I grew up in a trailer with dreams of fucking centrefolds 
Now I’m making money experimenting with chemicals
The fact that I'm alive is why I still believe in miracles

Small town gang yeah we get so bored
That I stole a shotgun and robbed a liquor store
We're running these streets, we're the mustang kids
Only doing what we won't, and don't take no shit
I might seem wild but mumma raised a gentleman
In another life, no telling who I would've been
Knight, or a king, or a boxer in the ring 
But I'm just me so I sing

I've been hearing all these things about you
Creepin' into all the things that I do
I've been hearing all these things about you
About you, about you

let it be autumn.

 “The earth has music for those who listen” – William Shakespeare

I love autumn. I love the colours, leaves painted red, orange, yellow, brown, shades of nature fluttering through the streets. I love the autumn cold, different from the harsh cold of winter, which makes your bones brittle and your skin white. It’s a cosy cold, a tights and skirt kind of cold.

I love autumn skies, clouds gathering in thick grey crowds that allow you to feel comfortable spending an entire day inside reading books and watching television. I’m not coerced out by the guilt of hot summer sun, or trapped by winter rains. Autumn is nonchalant, laid-back, leisurely.

I love the the foods; soups that billow hot steam, freshly baked bread and porridge oats spiced with cinnamon, honey ginger tea and roasted pumpkin. The tender wrapping of frozen fingers around hot bowls and mugs.

Autumn is early darkness and early light, gently frosted mornings that taste crisp in your lungs. It’s sun filtering through morning curtains, dark chocolate and movies in bed. Vibrant colours, leisure and hot earl grey, piles of leaves and grey skies, which are the beautiful kind of grey. Autumn is brown leather boots, red flushed cheeks, brightly coloured socks, and days where it’s cold and sunny at the same time. It’s duvets and coffee and well-worn books and comforts.

Obsessions.

Cereal magazine. A beautiful magical place where travel, lifestyle, photography editorial work and minimalism meet and hang out. Reading this magazine is like eating a decadently rich chocolate truffle. I literally want to eat the pages. But then again no because one issue costs $20NZ and that is far too expensive to be chewing on any of the waxed Bristol-born pages. Elegantly written, cleanly designed and stunningly photographed I’m yet to find a fault with this quarterly travel bible. If this doesn’t make you want to find the cheapest flights to places like London, Sweden, Sicily or Charleston I don’t know what will. So prepare yourself for strong feelings to visit places that you have never heard of and can barely pronounce as well as a desire to throw out all your belongings and live in a white empty room. 

What has brought on this particular obsession? Recently I had a much overdue but very simple epiphany of the importance of being inspired. How is one expected to ever pursue their dreams or live a life they love if they don’t actively spend time surrounding themselves with things they find of great value? Immersing and enriching your life with influences that you are passionate about is often overlooked and forgotten. Constantly in school, university or work we are given books to read, media to watch and art to appreciate, but how often do we take time to spend time around beautiful and insightful things? How often do we take a moment to look at something because it is pleasing, or read about something because it is inspiring? 

So take that time. Indulge in something beautiful. Buy a magazine because its well designed, or write a list of quotes that make you feel inspired. Eat your favorite food or finally get around to reading that book about that thing that you want to know about. Just take the time.

Have a beautiful week everybody xx