retreat
i've been sick the last few with a flu.today i feel well enough to go to my studio, i think.i went to acupuncture for the first time yesterday.i think it helped. he said i need to eat more leafy greens.now i have a sty in my eye tho. pretty cute.i'm annoyed that i've...
Nostalgia in patterns
i came to the computer to get an image of an elephant and then got distracted and wanted to write. get my head together.i was looking around my apartment and noticing the things i keep around.the dresses piled up high on the couch that i'm trying to figure out which...
poetry thursday {following amy’s lead}
Ah, not to be cut off,not through the slightest partitionshut out from the laws of the stars.The inner-- what is it?if not intensified sky,hurled through with birds and deepwith the winds of homecoming.~ Rainer Maria Rilke
favorites
every so often i must salute my flickr faves. you all make such beauty. i feel i captured bits of magic all in one little place together.i'm listening to serge gainsbourg on the stereo and post-bath with sunburnt legs (not a great combo; i stuck my legs out on the...
gypsy-pirate-we’re not in kansas anymore
thank you for all your supportive, interesting and inspiring comments. warms my soul. come be a gypsy-pirate with me!i feel like i'm having another kind of awakening, different than the one mentioned below. yup. i could be cute & all carrie bradshaw and say it was...
at the zoo!
this is my beginning of a story/promo booklet to send to kid's book publishers. the lyrics are of course simon & garfunkel. it will be printed about postcard size. this has been a very fun and playful project for me. i hope it can go somewhere:)
an early {SPT) experiment: acceptance
after i wrote the last post i geared up for a run and decided, y'know what, in the process of learning to accept, know and like myself more... even in the worst morning drudgery and pre-run. sorta shy at first and then, hey this is ME. i'm only going to get...
awakenings
"Do I really think there is anything more profoundly true about my interpretation of the situation, now that I'm in bed, than there was when I was in the middle of it this afternoon?"~ Hugh Prather from "Notes to Myself"part of me feels still so silly admitting to my...
grateful friday!
hello my friends,i really feel like i am making gigantic leaps of understanding in the last few days. i've had an incredible combination of working really hard at school, having a mini-break away with friends i've known for 12 years and know me to the core, meeting up...
the full spectrum
i drew this during finals and painted it in with photoshop. practicing my coloring skills. i feel quite opposite about the possiblities now and have shifted my mind, and am fully settling into my summer mode. my best friend bekah and i used to always label our summers...