hello paperboat

"everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me." My favourite line from Pablo Neruda. #jiaandtheworld #travelgram #italy #poetry #cinqueterre #ig

I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.

Come, take my hand and let's dance silly with the sunflowers. It's alright to be weird and crazy once in a while. #tuscany #stunning #wildandfree #travelgram #vsco #roadttrip #jiaandtheworld (at Somewhere in Tuscany)

It's nearly completed! Kudos to our teacher! (@cchristinechoww 's mum) #weekendaccomplishment #dressmaking #jiaandherdress #diyculture #vintage #teadress #vsco

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style" - Maya Angelou #happysunday #weekendaccomplishment #dressmaking #diyculture #lifeismorethanjustwork

Bouquet that I made for my dearest @mylongchin. I am beaming with happiness for you and Zach! (a mix of lilies, darling dahlias, eustoma, astilbe, spray roses and eucalyptus) #flowers #handbouquet #achingarms #flowersfitforafriend #weddingseason

Drawings and Dreams - Cornetto Cupidity cute love story.

Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers (e.e. cummings) wonderful to find a true friend and collaborator who's willing to take the same plunge into this adventure. Here's to Fieldwork, crazy ideas, last minute winging and having a ball of a time 🎉

e.e. cummings

Flower bombing 🌷 our latest public art project teaching people how to make paper flowers @smilingsnails (at The Arts House)

A man said to the universe,"Sir I exist!" "However,"replied the universe, "that has not created in me,a sense of obligation." (at Sri Lanka)

"I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air." (at Ahangama Bay)

"She seemed to have lifted the edge of the world, and now she was loosening its threads little by little" - aeroplane by murakami (current read) One of the favourite moments on the trip- tea leaf picking. (at nuwaraeliya)

Off for our 9km hike across Horton Plains to the World's End. Being in the middle of the wilderness under the open blue sky is simply food for the soul. (at Horton Plains)

The coming of Spring smells of strawberries and wildflowers. Watching the sunset symphony from our home up on the hilltop here at Nuwara Eliya. (at The Plains Bungalow)

"...like my heart dancing precariously on the edge of my fingertips"