November 2010
1 post
where's my party? (sorry to get political)
During my time attending school in Utah I repeatedly found myself irritated by people repeating the same republican beliefs as though they were irrefutably the correct way of thinking. I never thought that after hopping a few states i would be similarly annoyed with people’s devotion to democrats. Perhaps I am just drawn to playing the devil’s advocate, but mostly I think both parties...
October 2010
2 posts
road trip chronicles continued
The last five days have been spent hiking and exploring in Arches, Bryce, and Zion’s national parks. I’m ashamed to have lived in Utah as long as I have and to have barely grazed the surface of the beauty and warmth it has to offer. At last however I have truly tapped into the beauty that now seems almost overwhelming.
Today and I climbed up a trail that led to a viewing point that...
It's been a while. Here goes nothing.
It’s been a road trip that is constantly switching between stimulation and self discovery. I have made the choice to travel with two companions that have the ability to both suck me into their humorous childlike worlds and at other times to leave me alone in my own world, content to sit beside me as our thoughts flow between the trees and mountains, inside ourselves and out into the world.
...
May 2010
1 post
midnight
dusk is lingering over downtown and I can see it from my apartment…. I can also see the ocean. I am in a room alone for my first time in days and I just set the record for the most hugs I have ever received in one day. What is it about hugs that feels so fantastic? Why when you have an admiration for someone does the act of clinging to them and snuggling into their chest feel like a glimpse...
April 2010
1 post
I came home to my old house, but the walls were...
For the last two years, I have been under the impression that a certain person was in love with me. It’s funny to me how much of an affect that has had on my actions, whether I recipricated…. well I never reciprocated it, but whether i enjoyed the fact or not. There was guilt in my imagined transgressions against that loyalty. I guarded against growing affection for others, took...
March 2010
3 posts
Eckhart Tolle
“If you do not like your situation either accept it or change it. All else is madness.”
-The Power of Now
When I'm an old woman I shall wear purple
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the...
she walks in beauty
One day when I was fifteen waiting outside the gym for the bell to ring, a few friends and I were laughing that our mutual friend had asked out his girlfriend by passing her a note during English. Later that day, Taylor and Jesse, the friends I was laughing with handed me a photo copy of Jesse’s hand and pasted inside was the following:
She Walks in Beauty
by Lord Byron
She walks in...
December 2009
2 posts
“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you...”
– Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via bridgettelizabeth) (via furchesl) (via miianwilson)
“Yes, I was infatuated with you. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity...”
– Sylvia Plath via mimibaby, orionebula (via staywildstayfree) (via andreamichelle)
I guess I’m not the only nut job to have these thoughts….. wait, did she kill herself??
November 2009
3 posts
love it
“and your friends say why is it you love like you’ve seen a ghost?”
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that....”
– Drew Carey (via jmsc) (via andreamichelle)
October 2009
4 posts
andreamichelle:
Frasier: Sam and Diane - you are now and have always been hopelessly in I guess the word for it is “love”, and unfortunately for you, like it or not, you always will be. [amidst their protests] Frasier: I know, I know. Now you’re going to deny it. Even though it’s ludicrously obvious to everyone around you, you two will go on pretending it’s not true because you’re EMOTIONAL...
romanticized run ins
Each day I have spent out here I spend the afternoon by myself. Reading. walking. writing. And then at night I run into someone who speaks English (or maybe not… there was the Italian girl who shared her crackers with me) and then I love them intensely for one night! There was the Toronto boys, the Unicef photographer, then last night the Netherlands lad and the American couple. One night of...
“Every sacred journey begins with silence and restoration.”
– the yoga center in the middle of monte verde…… aka a small town in the middle of the rain forest
just remembered
I just remembered-
the little spanish I understand, I understand because I´m reading it.
that I am the most awkward person I know when it comes to meeting people
that when I leave the BARS around my hostel, I tend to get freaked out.
¨pura vida¨they say…. pure life……. I´m afraid to talk.
However, there´s a pool and it´s hot and I have a good book, and I hear this is the...
September 2009
2 posts
ready to roll
The road trip I am about to take has began to swirl with connotations I was not considering when I first began planning it. Suddenly it seems monumental to me. Before I leave the country for the firs time I get to say good bye to every place I’ve ever lived. Before I assume the role of a foreigner I get to take the most important and motivating people in my most recent life to the places...
June 2009
1 post
May 2009
2 posts
i'm no poet
bikes squeaking
soft rain freshens my face
the river and rain smell of rising dirt and dying fish
and home.
Pedaling in between my mommy and daddy
I’m twenty two.
But finally able to extract the joy due to such an occasion
April 2009
12 posts
From my last reading for Philosophy
” Looking at middle-class life in America, one finds strikingly few people who are actually living the good life. Instead we live at a frantic pace. We live lives filled with anxiety, filled with hassles and headaches and hard edges. What is most absent from our lives is gracefulness. This I have understood in terms of beauty, an aesthetic of time, inner peacefulness, appreciativeness, and...
“And maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via victoryblues) (via andreamichelle)
Returning to my peace of mind
I put in my two weeks yesterday. I’m one third of the way packed, and my final project for theatre takes place tomorrow morning. I have all my lines memorized and I’ve nearly almost started cleaning out my car.
I don’t do well with saying good-bye. I always end up terribly upset even if it’s only been a short visit. This feels even more difficult because some of the...
Missy Higgins
I wanna dance the tango with chance I wanna ride on the wire Cause nothing gets done with dust in your gun And nobody respects a liar So goodbye for a while I’m off to explore every boundary and every door Yeah I’m going north. And I wanna know where children would go If they never learned to be cool. Cause nothing’s achieved when pushed up a sleeve So nobody thinks...
Know yourself.
andreamichelle:
pocketfulofhope:
silentsigh:
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand...
Control it for yourself.
andreamichelle:
“But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there’s still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens...
March 2009
8 posts
Watchscm52:
Rand Illusion
at last
sooo, I’m skipping the rules, Here is my 101 things to do in 1001 days.
Go inside a cathedral
Apply for a study abroad
Apply for a yoga retreat/instructor training
Throw a themed party
Shower every day for a week
Watch waking life
Swim in the ocean
play beach volleyball
Enlarge and have framed a picture of my own taking
consciously decide to never let anyone play the villian in my...
lesson learned
Sometimes, just sometimes I wish I was different. There are certain days that I wish that I had taken dance classes when I was young instead of attending basketball camps. There are times when I wish that I had the desire or ability to pull off high heels or that I could even manage once to do more than brush my teeth before my nine thirty class. Then I attempt to leap out of my normal less than...
Bowl of Oranges - Bright Eyes
The rain, it started tapping on the window near my bed. There was a loophole in my dreaming, so I got out of it. And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open. Just my nightstand and my dresser where those nightmares had just been. So I dressed myself and left them, out into the gray streets. But everything seemed different and completely new to me. The sky, the trees, houses,...
Let the good day be recorded!
I feel that so often, we rant and rave about our mostly meaningless troubles. And by we, I mean me. My mouth hurts, my stomach hurts, class is boring, work sucks, people suck. The list goes on and on and on. These are just current one’s I’ve been repeatedly moaning. However, I would love to take this moment to record what I think evolved into a wonderful day although nothing...
February 2009
4 posts
“Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you,...”
– D. H. Lawrence (via rebeccazoe)
Your own best friend
I want to be able to say I’m my own best friend.
I want to spend time with myself more than anyone else. perhaps this a horribly self interested line of thinking. But I also think it’s a firm step forward in my own mental health. I want to smile at my own success. I want to mourn my losses with me. I really really really want to take my own advice.
“Imagine you are a girl just...