don't forget to look for beauty today

cracks

don't worry about the cracks in your story, that's where you're going to fit in your character

Ingrid van der Zalm

strange eye candy for the creative mind
& the colourful souls

somewhere in the middle

somewhere in the middle of perfection and uncertainty, lies your true self. find who you are through experience and mistakes. love who you are through the acceptance that you will feel perfect one day, and uncertain the next. :) - mf

The Breakfast Club

the skin you wear

Accepting who you are is the ultimate key to happiness and success. Until you do that, your relationships and opportunities around you are nothing but distractions and outlets. You have to learn to spend time with yourself, to adjust to your flaws, to appreciate your qualities. There is no validation more important than your own, no skin more comfortable than the skin you wear.

Love yourself,
Know yourself,
Be the best version of yourself.

- MF

PEACEFUL LIVING

I Am Behind

I am behind
the age of my skin
the texture of my lips
the length of my hair
and the colour of my eyes

for I am in
the age of my journey
the texture of my heart
the length of my knowledge
and the colour of my soul

- MF

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened; vision cleared; ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller

ART
should comfort the disturbed
& the disturb the comfortable.

Anthropologie, Don Mills Shops

RAWEDOUT

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
– Theodore Roosevelt

Wild & Alive

Wild & Alive – Photographer David Roemer (Atelier Management) lenses the exclusive Wild & Alive fall 2012 campaign for Mexican retailer El Palacio de Hierro. Featuring models Camille Rowe (Marilyn NY) and Mina Cvetkovic (Supreme), Roemer’s high energy images find the girls in cool autumn styles, lots of leather and trendy accessories. / Make-up by Eric Polito, Hair by Keith Carpenter, Manicure by Liang, Production by Atelier Management

crawl out of darkness
fall into beauty

- MF

I used to sit on the banks with a raft and watch the water roll lazily by. One day I pushed my raft into the shallows of the water and found the water moved swifter than I thought. My raft was actually a boat. Then, after some time, I rowed my little boat into deeper water. There were great storms, mighty winds, tremendous waves, and sometimes I felt so alone. But I have noticed my little rowboat is now a mighty ship manned by my friends and loved ones; and beautiful calm seas, warm sunny days, and nights filled with comfortable dreams always double after a storm. Now, I could never go back and sit on the bank. In fact, I search for deeper water. Such is life when lived. ~ B. D. Gulledge