Category Archives: INSPIRATION

a postcard for you

this video was shot on perfect day last weekend (thanks to my favorite videographer, allison). here is a moving picture postcard with song. we walked along the southbank at the christmas fair – drinking mulled wine and enjoying the beautiful sunshine.

this is for all my friends who have had a rough year. please know i am thinking of you. i hope everyone can share this with someone who needs some cheering up – it only takes a moment to remind your friends that you love them but the echoes are long and warm.

christmas is soon… but until then i leave you with this sunny afternoon. xoxo alva leigh

my history with irony

did you read christy wampole’s new york times opinion piece “how to live without irony” last week? it’s been one of those things that’s really stayed with me…  i’ve been trying to write things other than songs everyday, so here is a personal mini-essay in response.Continue Reading

that sort of ‘quiet hour’

“But it’s not so simple, that sort of ‘quiet hour.’ It has to be learnt. A lot of unimportant inner litter and bits and pieces have to be swept out first. … So let this be the aim of the meditation: to turn one’s innermost being into an empty plain, with none of that treacherous undergrowth to impede the view. So that something of ‘God’ can enter you, and something of ‘Love,’ too. Not the kind of love-de-luxe that you revel in deliciously for half an hour, taking pride in how sublime you feel, but the love you can apply to small, everyday things.” – Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum

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