Ellie Goulding 'Your Song'

Little Secrets.

I like to read news articles from CNN at night just before bed, instead of in the morning. 

Tomorrow I am headed over the tip top of France. 

Excited for cooler weather and new scenery before I indulge in the city life.

I'm just not ready to be a city girl just yet. 

Relevant.

The last month of being 21 for the rest of my life.

“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

The last August spent being 21 years old. Spent in Italy, Southern France, and the border of Switzerland and France. Finally drove back to my little loft in Paris and am unpacking/uploading photos while reading all the lovely birthday wishes the my awesome friends have sent me. 

Every photo has a story. To long to write down for now because I still have to unpack and tomorrow I wake up early to open a bank account here. So official. Buzzy. Amazing birthday wishes, I am truly so lucky to be living my dream life.I can only pray that all of my friends find just as much contentment and happiness in whichever season of life they live in now.

xx

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. 

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress

 

but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is

 like a sealing process,

helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.” 

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

There's Something in the Water

The kids discovered that I have an underwater digital camera. 
                                                                Hence the next few photos: 

The French and the Italian.

'Though we travel the 

       world over to find the beautiful,  

      we must carry it with us or we find it not' 

- Anon

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Chabin- 'Chalet'

View from my backyard

Always looking up.

Europes largest and longest luge in the Alps

The little village of Montegenvre 

Picnic in the mountains