“Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin, and they end, with no lasting memories made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life. May 23rd was a Wednesday…”

“Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin, and they end, with no lasting memories made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life. May 23rd was a Wednesday…”

“In this life you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody except yourseIf. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now… it ain’t gonna never happen.”
- Fortune, Rudy (1993)

“In this life you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody except yourseIf. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now… it ain’t gonna never happen.”

- Fortune, Rudy (1993)

This epitomises why Guillemots have dominated my iPod these past 12 months.

The prized possessions (from front to back):MuseBrand NewGuillemots 

The prized possessions (from front to back):

Muse
Brand New
Guillemots 

Brand New & Soco Amaretto Lime

Brand New & Soco Amaretto Lime

“I realised these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives…”
-  Jack Kerouac

“I realised these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives…”

-  Jack Kerouac

“I’m just astonished at how much you learn as you grow older and how it never stops. When I was 21, I realised that I didn’t know anything at 17, and then at 25, I realised I didn’t know anything at 21, and now at 31, I realised I didn’t know anything at 25. But it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. I’m always wondering if, when I’m 80, am I gonna be looking back to when I was 75 and going, you know, ‘that person didn’t know anything’? When does that process of growing stop?

When I listen back to all of that stuff, I see mistakes I made, but also the sparks of something I was doing that was eventually going to be great. It’s all very strange.”

- Jesse Lacey (Brand New)

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

— John Green - Looking for Alaska

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

— John Green - Looking for Alaska


Brand New - The Boy Who Blocked His Own ShotDeja Entendu 

Brand New - The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot
Deja Entendu 

“I don’t really know how to write cursive anymore.” 
(silence)
“… So how’s your marriage?”
“What the hell? Why… why would you ask me that?
“I’m trying to elevate small talk to medium talk”

Larry David - Curb Your Enthusiasm, S 08, Ep. 06

I like the sound of rain on my window…

between the hours of 7am and 10pm.


“I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.” ― Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying

“I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying

(Source: vintageanchor)

“let hope burn in your eyes”

I was fortunate enough to spend today interviewing year 11 students in an attempt to help them experience the recruitment process and discuss how they can end up being where and who they want to be. Aiding prospects and helping adolescents realise their potential is something that I’ve focused a lot on and being able to directly guide a teenager and influence their future has been immensely rewarding. I was struck by what I feel are the two biggest obstacles to adolescents realising their potential: how much self-doubt masks recognition of potential, and an unawareness of where to turn to for support. If just one word I said helped amend such an imbalance, the day will have been a great success.

Hopefully those I spoke with now see me as more than a name and a business.

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