This one goes out to the ones I love

Today it rained.
And I wanted to complain until my friend said
"it's just enough to clear the air a little"
and I realized,
sometimes we need a little rain

. . . and a few tears . . .

just to clear the air

and afterward, with purified vision, we will start to see everything that was covered with the dust of daily life.

So today I am grateful for rain and for everything that has been made clean.

snowfall

today I stepped outside and it was if by a miracle millions of beautiful white feathers were appearing and disappearing everywhere around me; little-frozen-ice-crystal feathers that somehow magically filled the space around me and above me and yet were invisible in the upper air, through which the mountains were barely visible in their cloak of mist and cloud. It felt like the beginning of a new world where laws like gravity and conservation of matter all faded away and where, in the muted morning light,
anything was possible.

and maybe today I will believe anything is possible.
and I will be happy
because I realized that there is no such thing as perfect
so its ok
cuz I'm not

and

that's what i call beautiful

lovely photo borrowed from http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/seasons-greetings/

A new kind of crooner(ette)

A few songs I'm loving right now that I thought I'd share. So go ahead and take a listen...


ok....



haha! This one makes me laugh! But it's a good song.


This is a little lame but there isn't a real video for this song yet and I felt it needed to be included, so this will have to make do...




p.s. I think I should get bangs... then maybe I'll write an amazing album and make weird music videos too :)

Road Tripper

"[W]ords are not fashioned to speak what shapes the wind takes, the motion whereby mists climb after the sun out of ravines, or how the tropic orchids lift at daybreak among their fragrant shadows wings of ivory and fawn drooped against ferny trunks."

Far Altars by Marian Storm

I am muted by the grandeur of nature. . .

by the power of creation. . .

by the immensity of the world
in relation to
my infinite smallness. . .

and I love it

Am I Insensitive?

see more Epic Fails

I think this is hilarious!

Jen, I hope you love this, because when I saw it I thought of you and what your reaction would be and I almost fall off my bed laughing!! Love you!

Patron St. Jerome

"The world wants useful inhabitants. True. But the clouds building bridges over the sea, the storms modeling the peaks and flanks of the mountains, are a part of the world; and they want creatures to sit and look at them and learn their life's secrets, and carry them away, conveyed perhaps merely in altered tone of voice, or brightened color of eye, to revive the spiritual and physical hewers of wood and drawers of water. For the poor sons and daughters of men require for sustenance, as well as food and fuel, and intellect and morals, the special mysterious commodity called charm. . . ."

--from "About leisure" by Vernon Lee

You should probably just read the whole thing! http://quotidiana.org

The Power of the Girl Effect

I saw this video today and I think it is pretty incredible! Watch it; check out the website (http://thegirleffect.org); think about the power of girls to change not only their own circumstances, but those of their families, communities and nations. It's incredible that something so simple can be so revolutionary and make so much difference in the lives of those who have the least.



The most shocking fact (check out the fact sheet on the website for more info) was that the leading cause of death worldwide for girls age 15-19 is PREGNANCY. wow.