Latest Posts by ruvey-da-vinci - Page 2
I miss holding my laugh during class
–Mary Oliver
small stress relievers for when life feels messy
swiffer your bedroom floor or vacuum your bedroom rug
wipe down your desk with a cloth or clorox wipe
clean off your computer screen
clear out your emails
do a load of your laundry
wash your bedding
maybe delete photos or apps on your phone that you don’t need
go through a drawer and get rid of things you don’t need
fold some clothes
organize your stationery or desk
“i don’t like writing about my day, but i want to keep a journal”:
quotes and copywork. when reading, if you find something you enjoy, just copy it into the notebook. you can copy a whole chapter if you wish, highlighting what caught your attention the most.
definitions. look up on a dictionary and copy it. you could write your own dictionary as well, making up definitions for words.
lists. a classic, write movies to watch, books to read, the playlist of the month or just the groceries you have to buy.
maps. when going somewhere, you could draw the route you took or just a map of the place itself. just look up the place on google maps and copy it. you can draw a little map of all the places you have lived or the schools you have attended as well.
photos
take “notes” as you watch movies / documentaries. write down phrases that caught your attention or doodle.
illustrations and clippings. if you see an image or piece of art that you liked, put it in your journal. if it’s from a book or from a magazine I would recommend scanning it, tho’. it will serve as a record of what kind of art you enjoy through the years.
newspaper clippings from the day.
tickets and pamphlets. from movies, museums, transportation.
postcards
records. you could record for a month what the temperature was when you woke up and when you went to sleep. if you do that for a year, it gives you a better notion of the passing of seasons. you could record rainfall and other seasonal changes as well. you could choose something (an animal, a plant, an item or object) and write down every time you see it.
rubbings of leaves, coins, landmarks.
count. there’s a scene in the movie Caroline (2009) where Caroline’s dad tells her to go count the windows. you could do the same type of counting game if you are bored and write down.
mindmaps/sketchnotes + timelines of books, movies, music albums.
collages
pressed leafs and flowers
your collections. if you collect anything you could write down an inventory or maybe try to draw the items.
recipes. write down recipes and give it a score every time you try it. you could do the same for drinks you try out.
stickers
comic strips. you can find a bunch of it online, glue your favorites in your notebook.
B&W and vintage scenes from "The Crown" that I liked, thank you
how to live life like a ghibli film
1. go out in nature more. every studio ghibli film has some aspect of nature intertwined with the storyline. sometimes its hard to get the energy to go outside, but just going out on your deck or opening the window in your room or taking a walk around the block is enough. if you feel like it, go for a hike! go into the woods and look at every flower, and every tree. look at the mushrooms and streams and notice the beauty of them. look at nature like you’ve never seen it before. wake up at 4 and watch the sunset. put plants around your room. realize how beautiful the world is around you. appreciate it.
2. get a hobby! this step is certainly easier said than done, but its so worth it. struggling with mental illness makes it especially hard to get a hobby, but its very important that you don’t spend the majority of your time on social media. Start small. If you want to start drawing get a coloring book and fill in a picture with beautiful markers! If you want to write find a random prompt online, give yourself 30 minutes and see what you can come up with. Want to try baking? Start with an easy recipe, like chocolate chip cookies, and share them with your family or friends, or just yourself! Try out a bunch of hobbies, and see what you like best. Maybe you like making jewelry or writing poems or creating digital collages or making video edits or decorating your room or riding a bike or sewing or reading. The possibilities are endless, and getting a hobby you enjoy is very important, and fun.
3. start appreciating small things and noticing details. I don’t know how to explain this step, but in studio Ghibli films, small things always stick out. There are beautiful tiny details that make the story so much more magnificent. small details make the studio Ghibli films what they are. maybe on your way to school/work the sky was a really pretty color. Or the tea you made in the morning was perfectly steeped. appreciate small details of life that you don’t normally notice.
4. appreciate food. Pay attention to your food. If you can, try and make/bake your own food! But if you can’t, just be mindful of your food. Try not to eat while you’re on your phone. Dedicate times to just eating. Appreciating the food in front of you. Make yourself the ponyo drink with milk and honey, or ponyo ramen! Make yourself your own blend of tea like the Baron!
5. be kind and help others. Being kind doesn’t have to be a grand gesture, it can be smiling and waving at a baby in a café, or helping your mom finish the dishes, or paying for a friend’s coffee. Small gestures not only put good out into the world, but they also make you feel better. When you can, help others. Try volunteering at an animal shelter, or babysit for your aunt without charging her, or just listen to your friend when they’re going through something and be there for them. In every Ghibli film, the main character is always helping others, and being kind. Try to be like kiki, when she returned the pacifier to the mother who forgot it, or like chizuru from the cat returns, who risks her life to save a cat. Kindness comes in all shapes and forms, so just try your best to do what you can!
6. be your most authentic self. Stay true to who you are. dress how you’d like. Cut your hair like you’ve always wanted to. Stay confident and true to yourself. We all feel insecure sometimes, but we need to remind ourselves that we are great. Don’t try and force yourself to be someone you aren’t. Kiki felt insecure in her abilities as a witch, but she stayed true to herself, and believed in herself, and it paid off. Love and appreciate yourself, just the way you are.
7. (not really a tip but a fun suggestion) start collecting something! This is just an extra step that I wanted to include because I think its nice. But start a collection of things that interest you. It could be anything! Candles, stamps, teacups, antique figurines, 19th century photos, lip balms, books, key chains, flowers, hats. The choices are endless.
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller
Much randomer scenes from "Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)" that I liked, thank you.
Randomer scenes from "Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)" that I liked, thank you.
Random scenes from "Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)" that has the ocean in it that I liked, thank you.
Random scenes from "Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)" that has No-face (Koanashi) in it that I liked, thank you.
— TONI MORRISON, from ‘Beloved’.
Me: *wants to be friends with someone*
Me: *doesn’t know how to start a conversation with them*
Honestly? Fuck this culture of shaming people for learning about things late and liking them. who gives a shit if you discovered a song from years ago and youre in love with the band? Catch up with series you just discovered and talk about them to your friends, fall in love with movies others have known way before you even heard of them, read books youd heard of long ago but never got interested in until now and become a huge fan!! This idea that people are “fake fans” for not knowing about or being interested in things before and loving them now is garbage and we need to get rid of it. Just let people enjoy things jfc!!
Random scenes from "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Kari Skogland, 2021)" that I liked, thank you
Flowers, important stuff.
He may have just killed 15 people but at least he is wearing a mask, Karen.
Random scenes from "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gobdry, 2004)" that I liked, thank you.
Mausoleum
Song by Rafferty
Come inside my mausoleum
Light a candle on the pathway to my casket room
Step on through rusty iron archways
Where a pigeon lays that died without his lover
So strange and beautiful
How you gaze upon my bones
A mistake, a tragedy
Since we missed each other by a century
They took my clothes and sent to a museum
All I am is dust and a handlebar mustachio
They took my guns, and horse and swords for history
But they kindly left a photograph of you and me
Your dress, so beautiful
On those cliffs that took your soul
Though I reached for you as you drifted out to sea
Since we missed each other by a century
Your fine lips, I would kiss you again
So don't be frightened by my skeleton
I'd kill to touch your soft, bony hands
But I can't because this is my lover's century
So strange, and beautiful
How you gaze upon my bones
Before you leave me out to sea
I'll visit your bones next century
Anne Sexton from Complete Poems
There’s always something good coming. Remember that.
Even if things take such a good turn in one of a thousand cases, who can guarantee that in your case it will not happen one day, sooner or later? But in the first place, you have to live to see the day in which it may happen, so you have to survive in order to see that day dawn, and from now on the responsibility for survival does not leave you.
Viktor E. Frankl in his book "Man's Search for Meaning"
Random scenes from the crown that I liked, thank you
Quotes from Long way down by Jason Reynolds
حلم
Holm, song by Emel
If I could close my eyes,
And the dreams take me by the hand,
I would rise and fly in a new sky,
and I would forget my sorrows.
If I could travel in my imagination,
I would build palaces and nights,
where love and my hopes can grow, and we could erase the pain...
A world, in which you see people, whose features
are clouded by oppression, misery, and suffering,
from a bitter reality that destroys everything we build.
A world where you see rising walls of tyranny,
That crushes in our dreams and dreams
And reign darkness and greed in all hearts.
The Ballad of Nora Lee
Song by Helldorado
Once upon a time there lived a lady young and fair
Raven hair and rosy cheeks and no one to compare
Daughter of a noble man in a little town
And her name was Nora Lee, and it was spoken all around
It's told that she was courted by two men of different kin
One of them a shoemaker that made boots of lizard skin
The other was the sheriff in this little town
And he swore he'd marry her or else he'd put her in the ground
One night the moon was brightly shining in the sky
She went to see the shoemaker and with him she did lie
"You are my own true love" she whispered soft and low
But they'd been spied upon that night, and soon the sheriff he would know
Then came a cold and dark night and the wind was blowin' free
The sheriff and his men they tied poor Nora to a tree
Full of wickedness they stole her maidenhead
Then they stabbed her with a knife 'till they were sure she was dead
Her body it was found the next day on the banks below
The news was heard and many hearts were filled with grief and woe
"The guilty one will soon be hung" the sheriff he did claim
And he called upon his men, the shoemaker to blame
The scaffold it was built and all the people gathered round
Just to watch that poor boy taken to his hangin' ground
The rope was tied around his neck for everyone to see
And as the hangman pulled the rope, then he would meet his Nora Lee