dripping with passion

                                          my intention is to wake up every morning at 6am, read the scriptures while i eat breakfast, be unrushed and intentional, and leave for work right on time. that happens about 25% of the time, but a combination of a few of those things happens most of the time. i love the app sleep cycle  and the way it gently wakes me up, although i often turn it completely off after a few snoozes because i don't want to get out of bed. i'm totally fascinated by the the stats from it, though! my work days have been quite different the past few weeks, because my role at my school is changing soon. the transition has been stressful, and i anticipate my new responsibilities will be super challenging. {more coming on this soon} when i was down the coast visiting sara, we had to stop in a target and buy some duct tape to use as a tool in keeping my car's bumper from falling off. now, i cruise around with a dozen strips of sil...

  ............................................................................................................ ....................................................... there's a rhythm in rush these days where the lights don't move and the colors don't fade leaves you empty with nothing but dreams in a world gone shallow in a world gone lean sometimes there's things a man cannot know gears won't turn and the leaves won't grow there's no place to run and no gasoline engine won't turn and the train won't leave but there is a truth and it's on our side dawn is coming open your eyes look into the sun as a new days rise -jose gonzalez (i'm so in love with this song ) ............................................................................................................ ....................................................... tonight i can write the saddest lines. write, for example,'the night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the...

  last weekend i went on a backpacking trip with thirteen friends at point reyes. the weather was delicious, the scenery was gorgeous, and the company was stellar.  we hiked through lush landscape; we ate freeze dried meals by headlamp light; we built a beach bonfire under the sparkliest night sky; we fell asleep and woke up to the sound of ocean waves.  being in wild nature, sleeping under the stars and by the sea, and laughing harder than i have in a long while made my spirit feel glad and calm.    on the six and a half mile hike in, after quite a bit of uphill, we turned around a corner to see vistas down to the ocean bathed in gold. we were pretty excited about the views and the descent. as soon as we reached the campground, a few of us rushed to drop our packs and run to the horizon at the coast to see the sun say its last goodbyes. the clouds continued to evolve into different colors of bright cotton candy while we set up our tents, just in time for dar...

i had the whole week off! hooray for february break. on tuesday, i headed south to the california’s central coast to visit my dear dear dear (truly, one of the all-time dearest) friend sara, who is living on vandenberg air force base with her husband, matt.   {i took a lot of pictures, playing around with my new camera.}   we met at the cute town of morro bay, strolled along the embarcadero, caught up over grilled cheese on the pier, explored morro rock and hiked up black hill for an overlook. matt gave me a tour of the base and taught me lots about launching rockets, monitoring satellites, and crazy cool space technologies. we went to this gorgeous spot where we could see the remnants of shipwrecks and the surging sea. on wednesday, sara took me to la purisima mission, and we hiked around in the hills. oh how good it felt to talk with a bosom friend! a little further south, we saw this sign and knew our choice to check out ostrichland was a good one.     t...