my boat is afloat
today's AWE-MAZING entry is two fold:
if life is about change then the "sure thing boat" does not get far from shore... where am i going on my grand boat tour.
obviously i am going to new zealand because i have been in the middle of the bloody ocean for a long time. at least if feels like a long time. however boring and trite this part of the journey is i know new zealand is worth it. maybe i shall run into the cook islands on the way, in fact i think i shall try and aim for that. in my tour i think i would also like to miss the island of plastic floating out here in the pacific mainly because it will depress me to see all that garbage and all the dead things.
wow this is a bleak boat trip... let's see when i was closer to land i have seen some pretty amazing things, like waterfalls that plummet into the ocean and a baby seal spiraling in the water while it sleeps. a sea lion came up about 10 feet from my kayak once and scared the shit out of me. dolphins followed us across the puget sound and another time we saw dolphins ans seagulls mass feeding together on a school of fish. last year my favorite things was to get up each morning and watch the king fisher hover and dive off the dock of the place we rented.
i've seen purple shells, and moon snails and rivers full of thai women selling flowers and food and all manner of things. i watched the sunset every evening and watched otters frolic.
what i love most about the view from water is the quiet. how sounds carry over the distance, the sound of water as it hits the shore or as your boat moves through it. I love how water reminds us how nothing ever is static how it rips away or gently removes and re-shapes the world.
what i would like to see are whales in the distance, and white sandy beaches, warm tropical beaches and at night a sky full of amazing stars. when there are no clouds i can image on this very long boat trip that there is a magnificent sky above me... when things get tedious i must remember to look up.
part the second:
mold yourself into the jello mold of the season taking with you only the good bits (this is my interpretation of said exercise)
i shall be raspberry jello cause E, my husband, loves raspberry jello pretzel dessert which i think might need to be made soon.
i love holiday lights. how it gets dark so bloody early but we have colors to light up our spaces. i love the smell of cider. i love to bake. i adore staying up late and playing games or watching too many cheesy christmas shows.
i think turkeys and mashed potatoes are yum but you can keep the pumpkin pie unless it has a ginger cookie crust and carmel, then i will have one piece.
i love the idea of presents (but i hate going out to buying things)and in reality i often don't love what's in the present so i am conflicted in this. i've tried to do christmas without presents and then when the days comes i am so sad...
i love appetizers and this is the one time of year you can make whole meals of different kinds of appetizers and no things it's weird. yumm i think i shall plan said meal :D
i love finding holly and cedar and decorating my mantel and alter with greens and nuts and pomegranets and other found treasures. i like walking in the fog and the first few days where the cold hits you and makes your breath turn to steam.
i love snow. i love how quiet the world gets when it snows. i love how it transforms a bleak landscape into something mystical, magical and mysterious. i adore a full moon on snow turning the world blue and silver and sparkly.
what i love most about the season is a good cup of tea, a book, a fire and the excuse to snuggle and go to bed early if one desires.
if life is about change then the "sure thing boat" does not get far from shore... where am i going on my grand boat tour.
obviously i am going to new zealand because i have been in the middle of the bloody ocean for a long time. at least if feels like a long time. however boring and trite this part of the journey is i know new zealand is worth it. maybe i shall run into the cook islands on the way, in fact i think i shall try and aim for that. in my tour i think i would also like to miss the island of plastic floating out here in the pacific mainly because it will depress me to see all that garbage and all the dead things.
wow this is a bleak boat trip... let's see when i was closer to land i have seen some pretty amazing things, like waterfalls that plummet into the ocean and a baby seal spiraling in the water while it sleeps. a sea lion came up about 10 feet from my kayak once and scared the shit out of me. dolphins followed us across the puget sound and another time we saw dolphins ans seagulls mass feeding together on a school of fish. last year my favorite things was to get up each morning and watch the king fisher hover and dive off the dock of the place we rented.
i've seen purple shells, and moon snails and rivers full of thai women selling flowers and food and all manner of things. i watched the sunset every evening and watched otters frolic.
what i love most about the view from water is the quiet. how sounds carry over the distance, the sound of water as it hits the shore or as your boat moves through it. I love how water reminds us how nothing ever is static how it rips away or gently removes and re-shapes the world.
what i would like to see are whales in the distance, and white sandy beaches, warm tropical beaches and at night a sky full of amazing stars. when there are no clouds i can image on this very long boat trip that there is a magnificent sky above me... when things get tedious i must remember to look up.
part the second:
mold yourself into the jello mold of the season taking with you only the good bits (this is my interpretation of said exercise)
i shall be raspberry jello cause E, my husband, loves raspberry jello pretzel dessert which i think might need to be made soon.
i love holiday lights. how it gets dark so bloody early but we have colors to light up our spaces. i love the smell of cider. i love to bake. i adore staying up late and playing games or watching too many cheesy christmas shows.
i think turkeys and mashed potatoes are yum but you can keep the pumpkin pie unless it has a ginger cookie crust and carmel, then i will have one piece.
i love the idea of presents (but i hate going out to buying things)and in reality i often don't love what's in the present so i am conflicted in this. i've tried to do christmas without presents and then when the days comes i am so sad...
i love appetizers and this is the one time of year you can make whole meals of different kinds of appetizers and no things it's weird. yumm i think i shall plan said meal :D
i love finding holly and cedar and decorating my mantel and alter with greens and nuts and pomegranets and other found treasures. i like walking in the fog and the first few days where the cold hits you and makes your breath turn to steam.
i love snow. i love how quiet the world gets when it snows. i love how it transforms a bleak landscape into something mystical, magical and mysterious. i adore a full moon on snow turning the world blue and silver and sparkly.
what i love most about the season is a good cup of tea, a book, a fire and the excuse to snuggle and go to bed early if one desires.