in wanderland

My name is Liz.
Indiana/ Atlanta/ Narnia.
Dreamer.Adventurer.
Baker. Photographer.
Christ follower.

Handmade things.
Coffee.Tea.Reading.
Antique stores.
Old hymns. Pretty dresses.
Countryside.
Kindred spirits.
lizabethrussell@gmail.com

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Hi friends. I’ll be over here from now on!
Update your little blog readers!
Saying goodbye to this tumblr for now. But! I’m keeping it alive so that when I’m 80 I can look back and read about my adventurous life. Some of you I am super excited to keep reading up on! Some of you will continue posting gifs of cats on carousels or something. I won’t miss that at all. :)

Keep all that joy in your hearts!
-Liz

There is such a big lovey spot in my heart for gentlemen. Old fashioned simple gentlemen. The other night my sweet Grandpa, recovering from a really serious surgery, took the time to wait out in the freezing cold for my grandma as she walked to my car…opened the back door for her, waited until she got inside, and closed it. Then his way too skinny shivering self crawled in the passenger seat and burrowed himself in his sweater to get warm…. Always thinking of his lady first, even when he isn’t feeling the best. I melt! I pretty much want to marry somebody just like him someday. So enamored by his manliness and gentleness and kindness in these kinds of simple moments.

Here is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness: but your darkness cannot now infect our light. Can you really have thought that love and joy would always be at the mercy of frowns and sighs? Did you not know that they were stronger than their opposites?

- C.S. Lewis The Great Divorce

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Sucré—Hiding Out (Daytrotter)

beauty beauty beauty.
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So my birthday was the other day! Was a rough one this year. My grandpa flew home and a few days later landed himself in the hospital. So I got to spend quite a few days there. Thankfully with each day he kept showing improvements. showed some smiles, laughed a little, and asked for raisinets! Progress! Just need to get that man to put on some weight! lots of it! And keep the junk out of his lungs! The winter here has been a major bummout for him. Me too. Can winter please be over?! Please please please! I just wanna ride my bike and plant flowers and lay in the grass. Speaking of this, does anybody wanna move to California with me? Like for real? Roomies?!

So back to birthday partying. This year I got a freaking cute strawberry cake, and a pink hello kitty mug! I’m just a simple five year old girl okay! And yesterday some of my dearest friends & I had a little after birthday valentines tea party! Oh gosh! It was perfect! There were heart shaped sandwiches and pink lemonade and cakey things and darjeeling tea and all the cutest little foods you could imagine. And I got to sit next to the coolest 4.5 year old in the wooooorld.

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justify my soul, o god, but also from your fountains fill my will with your fire. occupy my heart with your tremendous life. let my eyes see nothing in the world but your glory, and let my hands touch nothing that is not for your service. give me the strength that waits upon you in silence and peace. possess my whole heart and soul with the simplicity of love!

Keep me from loving money in which is hatred, from avarice and ambition that suffocate my life. Keep me from the dead works of vanity and the thankless labor in which artists destroy themselves for pride and money and reputation. Stamp out the serpent envy that stings love with poison and kills all joy.

Set me free from the laziness that goes about disguised as activity when activity is not required of me, and from the cowardice that does what is not demanded, in order to escape sacrifice.

Occupy my whole life with the one thought and the one desire of love, that I may love not for the sake of merit, not for the sake of perfection, not for the sake of virtue, not for the sake of sanctity, but for You alone.

-Thomas Merton