I don't know if I am strong enough for any of this. Regardless, I have to be strong enough for all of this.

I need to stop defining myself against things. Because then when those things get taken away I crumble. When I am on the move I never stay long enough to have that happen, to let myself build up like a residue against something else ( Read more... )

 I feel so so so shitty right now.

 If we all have heart-goal-dream-things (as outlined in Paulo Coehlo's book The Alchemist), and we need to pursue them in order to live our lives fully, because if we stray from them too long we will unlearn how to follow our hearts like compasses, what happens to those who forget, or make bad choices, or never had a knack for following directions ( Read more... )

 I am sitting in my livingroom, scratching my sunburnt legs, listening to Dee's mix CD, and realizing (as I periodically do when I eschew plans and decide to have a 'night to myself') why I keep myself so goddamn busy all the time ( Read more... )

So I think one of these years I am going to spend a summer help exchanging around Canada. There are so many listings on the site... volunteering at a coffee house in witless bay, newfoundland? Or a berry farm in BC? Or a guesthouse on quadra island picking oysters off the beach (also BC ( Read more... )

I won the scholarship!!! I am sharing it with another firs year (who also happens to be awesome). It's 1000$, and she is getting 300 and I am getting 700. They were really impressed with my big painting and one of the judges used the word 'sophisticated' when referring to my work!! I almost died when she said that. :3

Guys, I really enjoy cooking ( Read more... )

Click to view

Oh my dear god. Sometimes I lose all faith in humanity ( Read more... )

Click to view

This is just so sweet.