The Yellow House

"Sorrow prepares you for joy. 

It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. 

It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. 

It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. 

Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place."

Rumi

Tulip's Yellow Secrets

"The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, 

contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there."

Marya Hornbacher

If You Walk by the Colour Purple in a Field Somewhere

"He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the desk in front of her. (...) 

Let us open the window and see if your painting can entice the butterflies."

Sarah Hall

MySpot: Warm Yellow Light

"And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - 

although I've come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand. 

What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. 

What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. 

Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. 

Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. 

The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other living creature. 

Sorrow inseparable from joy."

Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

From the Garden

"Harvest isn't just the act of picking a vegetable from the vine, 

it's a season for collecting the crops and celebrating plentiful gifts our garden has brought to us."

Unknown

Chrysanthemum Hours

"Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy

Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise."

Oscar Wilde

Sibiu - The Streets

Sibiu rejoiced in the last years of a significant acknowledgement of its beauty and touristic potential at an international level. 

Consequently, the prestigious Forbes magazine ranks Sibiu on the 8th place of the list containing "the most idyllic places to visit", 

in 2014 The Huffington Post included Sibiu in the list containing "The most charming cities in Europe you’ll want to visit", 

the city being mentioned in numerous articles of the most important newspapers in Europe and the US. 

Michelin awarded Sibiu a quotation of three stars (Green Guide Stars), 

the maximum quotation and the highest awarded to a city in Romania.