18th
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
- Mary Oliver
(via loveandzombies) (via theoworldpulse)

“I Am A Princess. All Girls Are. Even If They Live In Tiny, Old Attics. Even If They Dress In Rags. Even If They Aren’t Pretty, Or Smart, Or Young. They’re Still Princesses. All Of Us.”
- rosemarytea (via bialb)

Between 1904 and 1907, Antoni Gaudi worked for the industrialist Josep Batlló Casanovas reforming a house built in 1877 and located in Passeig de Gràcia. The Barcelona population of the period were quite astonished by his work and quickly gave it nicknames such as the House of Bones or the House of Yawns (via Erik)