I have one thing to confess.
But before that, please don’t panic, don’t lose your head. I’m telling you now.
The truth.
Ok, here it is, I’m afraid that…
I’m having a crush…
on this little girl.
It’s strange, nearly weird enough to have me taken aback that most of my inspiration come from adorable Asian girls. I was unconscious of their racial background till recently, didn’t have even the tiniest thought about the link between them, and the link between them and me. It’s Michelle Phan and Xteeener, Nancy the illustrator and Laura Yan, and IU as well.
And surprisingly this time it’s another Nancy – Nancy Lam.
A daydreamer. A dream maker.
Today I got her acceptance to be my friends in FB after so much effort to ‘trace’ her footprints, and she is a girl nice enough to even send me a short message. And knowing that she is of Vietnamese decent makes my heart full of joy. I can barely express the delight that made my day. Her beautiful works of art are so amazing and sweet and sophisticated that you might not be able to believe that she is still a teenager and had no formal training on art.
I have been stunned by her talent in both writing and photography. Her photos glitter like poetry and her notes of thoughts flow like music. Seriously. I truly sense the bond that dearly ties my soul with them.
Take a look at these pretties:
“instead of thinking about how many people will be at your funeral, think of how many will be at your wedding”
“what wedding?”
“the wedding you’ll have in 8 years”
“with who?”
“someone who loves you and can carry your baggage with one hand”
“can he carry me in the other?”
“and you and everything else in the other”
“i must be marrying super man!”
“or a good man”
“isn’t that the same thing?”
"nancy, today i lost my left hand"
the boy slowly lifted his pale hand to meet his gray-blue eyes, "and i found it"
"j, today i lost my entire existence"
he tugged on a strand of his curly blond hair and looked at my tiny ears, sniffling nose, cherry mouth,
goosebumped shoulders, bruised knees, happy feet.
"i found you"
( and the unseen came into sight )
lately — so tired & so trapped,
all i want to do is sleep and sleep
and wake up with glowy yellows seeping through my curtains
let my hair down
climb out my window
ride a bicycle with a basket of flowers and a jingly bell
barefooted
to fantasia!
every day until December will have a little less sunlight than the day before. so wrap your days in golden dust instead of heavy blankets of sleep. go out into summer, let the hues unfold, and just be okay. :]
It’s just hard to express how much I love her : )
Meet her here in her website: NanSea