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Autumn has wonderful misty mornings , they make me feel a little melancholic from time to time , don’t ask me why , perhaps I start to think about those gone to early , it’s always to early when you love … but we can find comfort in knowing that even if it’s not today, one day we will truly understand why things turned out the way they did ...
the trust that clarity will come with time ...

Song by Oliver Symons from the Belgian band Bazart .
His just released this single “Wake up” ( a solo project ) and it’s about youth, freedom, romantic connection, and the urgency of living in the present .
I just love it so I wanted to share it .

Enjoy your Sunday .
Love , stay connected and try to live in the present , just a suggestion .
Greatings from your weird sister ♥️

#autumn#mood#naturephotography#naturelovernatureshooters taken in Leuven, Belgium by @diehildie

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6 days ago

I love flowers — I think we often forget the small thoughts . How much a single whisper, verse, touch or flower means to another …

#flowers#window#minimal#mood#sunday taken in Gent, Belgium by @diehildie

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13 days ago

One of the finest words I read this week in a book was ;
« invitation ». An invitation to dance in the sun , in the rain , to dinner, to talk in dark til morning, to sing funny songs, to hold hands, to go for a walk, to listen, to go away together, to share good food , to cry if you need to, to share a book, to hope, to kiss, to snuggle, TO love … all the simple things .
I can go on … but I’m not going to mess up your Sunday afternoon .

While reading the fantastic book by my favorite writer @Connie_palmen« Johnny Walker » , I was able to admire the gorgeous wall art by @rubencarrascoart in the hotel .

Check out his account , he’s a great artist and don’t forget to read Connie’s book .

Thank you @hoteldeparissainttropez for the impeccable service and friendly service .

#holiday#cotedazurfrance#minimal#sun#invitation taken in Hôtel de Paris Saint-Tropez by @diehildie

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20 days ago

Some places have a way of making the rest of the world feel very far away. .
Bare feet, late dinners, salty air and conversations that last longer than planned …
That’s the place where you’ll find me the upcoming days .

See you by the sea

#sea#naturephotography#naturelover#france#mediteranée taken in Côte d'Azur - French Riviera by @diehildie

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a month ago

I had a drawing teacher explain once that light washes things out, the dark will hide, it’s in the space between, the dusty shadows, that’s where the lovely details are. I feel we often get caught up in that space between who we want to be and who we are, often feeling that the two may never meet. Perhaps we have to see the blessing in both .
We may never be who we dreamt to become, but we can be resolute in who we are.
I’m trying to find this place , knowing that in every shadow , there is a quiet reminder that light lives all around you .

#architecture#light#shadow#sun#sunshine taken in Brussels, Belgium by @diehildie

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a month ago

My last post has been mysteriously removed from IG .
Not really a problem, they can do whatever they like here , since it’s a kind of game we are all participating in .
But now I’m talking about games , there are two types of games. One, where the goal is to win; any sport, board games or kick-the-can.
Games that are polarizing—a winner and a loser
—an end.
Then there is the second; the desire is to simply keep the game going
—a conversation, a particular song, a child with an ice cream , a kiss or hug, life and love. That is not to say there isn’t an end, just that there is a hope to sustain, a pleading to stay, to be present instead of the former where the end is the goal.
There is a disparate need to stay .
I’m reminded of an excerpt from an Albert Camus quote, “ Live life to the point of tears.” I cannot say I’ve always lived up to that, but I do aspire to it each minute of each day .
If I should ever consider to have a tattoo ( wich I am not considering ) , It would be “ Live life to the point of tears “.
Isn’t that the real meaning of our presence here ?

#sunset#mood#words#naturelover#livelife by @diehildie

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a month ago

I like sunsets , I think we all do .
What I don’t like is excessive small talk .
It’s exhausting most days, pleasantries avoiding a connection that could have been. I’d rather hear about your dreams rather than your days , wants instead of the weather.
I crave to hear your fears and your escape plan and I’ll share mine-maybe we can disappear together …
I want to know about the day you were first scarred .
Is this day better or worse than all the days before? That’s what I want to know .
I wonder if you need, as much as I do, a bond with another in a world that seems void of empathy ?
Do you ?

#thoughts#moodygram#naturephotography#dreamer#sunset taken in Knokke-Le-Zoute by @diehildie

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a month ago

This carries no ill will.
I simply no longer need anything from those who do not need me, nor do I seek anything from those who do not want me.
There is a quiet freedom in that realization. After a lifetime of learning otherwise, this feels like the healthiest place I have ever stood .
Thank you to those who thaught me .

#me#bnw_captures #bnw#bnwsouls#mood taken in Antwerp, Belgium by @diehildie

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2 months ago

I admit that I lost my way many times and in many ways.
With that said, I’ve always found the most profound beauty in the least sought out places, the least noted people .
Let life surprise you !

Photograph taken a few months ago, far from the madding crowd .

#travelphotography#minimal#beauty#naturephotography taken in De Haan aan Zee by @diehildie

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2 months ago

There was a time I believed that to love was to be understood. Before that, I believed it was to be desired. Earlier still, I mistook it for being needed.
In time, each of those ideas slipped from my shoulders.

I no longer feel the need to persuade anyone of who l am. I no longer wish to perform, to impress, or to win. Those belonged to a younger version of me.

But there is also another fear: to spend a lifetime being looked at without ever being known.
We speak so that we may be heard, yet seldom listen deeply enough to hear another. We long to be seen, yet hide behind the very faces we have spend years creating .

So , if you are lucky you meet one soul and become their echo, while allowing them to become your mirror …
If you are lucky ,
I hope you all find that luck .

Photograph taken at a retrospective of the well known French photographer Robert Doisneau called
« Instants donnés » a few months ago , at La Bovarie
I suppose you all know « Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville »

Enjoy your day my friends and let love rule .

#love#live#laugh#photography#mood taken in Musee La Bovarie Liege by @diehildie

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2 months ago

Feet on the ground , head in the clouds , that’s me , yes ,your weird sister .
I fitted in , but I was never in the right place .

We spend so much energy trying to belong . We worry, we overthink, we obsess over whether we’re saying the right thing, wearing the right clothes , (you will be judged ) standing in the right corner of the room , and somewhere along the way, that obsession quietly becomes the whole point, rather than the life we were actually meant to be living.
I know this because I have been kind of an outsider for most of mine.
Never quite fitting the mould that any one room expected of me, and for years I let that unsettle me.
I contorted, l adapted, I made myself smaller or louder , depending on the audience, all in service of a voice in my head that insisted fitting in was the goal.
It isn’t. Fitting in and belonging are two entirely different things, and mistaking one for the other will cost you years .( as it did me)

The room that requires you to shrink is never the right room. The people who need you to perform a version of yourself are never the right people.
Stop contorting.
Start looking for the place that fits you, not the other way round.

Music : Flavien Berger
Bleu sous-marin
The « blue » is a sensory and emotional space where the chaos of the surface world fades away, replaced by a hypnotic, surreal, and sometimes spooky calm .

Perhaps you can join me there .
Enjoy your day my friends , don’t forget to breathe.

#water#moody#blue#minimal#goals by @diehildie

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3 months ago

I miss sitting next to you ,
looking at the sunset , not on an island , but simply in your garden .

They say that grief is the mental force of gravity that connects us to the past and what came before.
It gives the present an urgency and magic of being and it defines Love.

You left planet earth on the 23th of July , six years ago , in the middle of the Covid pandemic .
A real goodbye was impossible

I post this today because I am heading to Paris tomorrow .
I will certainly raise my glass to you .
I have had the pleasure of loving you .
You taught me to enjoy the ride of life and that it’s okay to be a little weird .

Thank you father for your endless generosity, kindness and the love you surrounded us with .
I will keep spreading your magic , always and forever …
The world was a better place with you in it .

Photograph taken in Sicily ( Toarmina )
Music ; Gigliola Cinquetti - Non Ho L’Età .
You really loved that song .

Enjoy your day dear people ,
time is fleeting ,
we only live once .

#sunset#life#grief#naturelover#goodbye taken in Sicily, Italy by @diehildie

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3 months ago