Inspiration Fridays: It's That Kind of Friday

I don't know about you, but I'm having a great Friday.  

I'm wearing a cool skirt, it's warm, there's a mocha in my hand, and all I want to do is laugh and smile.

It's a good day.

I hope you're having a good day too.

So, here are some tools to help us all along on that journey of happiness.

By tools, I mean pictures and gifs.

May the Fourth be with you!

Unfortunately, I don't know sources for any of these because I got them off of Tumblr.

And, Tumblr is a cesspool of stealing and lack of crediting.  

Photographer Feature: Lauryn McCarter

Lauryn McCarter is half Irish and half Hungarian, and feels that this fact has disproportionately affected her life.  Jersey-born and raised in Virginia, Lauryn is an NYU Directing major but spends her summers working as a farmhand. She is spending this semester studying in Prague, traveling through Europe, and refilling her creative gas tank. 

More of her work, including photos and short stories, can be found at www.halftrue.tumblr.com. Lauryn shoots with a Canon Rebel XS named Amelia. Her favorite thing in the world is animals.

 Bric a Brac Shop, Staré m ěsto, Prague

Lonely Wicker Unicorn, a courtyard somewhere in Staré město, Prague

Florist's window, Prague

African wild dogs, Zoo Praha, Troja, Prague

Fisherman's Bastion, Buda, Budapest

Prague, Czech Republic
and
Budapest, Hungary

Cha Togar M' Fhearg Gun Dìoladh

Cha Togar M' Fhearg Gun Dìoladh (Gaelic)

Nemo me impune lacesset (Latin)

Wha daur meddle wi' me (Scots)

No one attacks me with impunity

This is the motto of the Scottish Order of the Thistle, the Scottish chivalric order.  This particular painting was in Edinburgh Castle, in the private chambers that once belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots, in a time when Gaelic, Scots, and English would have been spoken.  Latin was still considered to be a language of old orders, and of oaths.  French would actually have been spoken in this castle as well.  In any case, I love the unicorns, I love the phrase, I love the painting, and I love Scotland.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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