a quick story from my recent journey back to nh: i was talking with the guy who picked me up from the airport and telling him all about powervote and how empowering it was to see youths uniting for a clean and just energy future (in a beautifully non-partisan way). he was telling me that john mccain is all for green energy, he's proposing 110 new ( Read more... )

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So the little things in bras that you put extra padding in also work as excellent stash pockets.

i think that the only thing worse than having a friend die is knowing that right now, at this very moment 1,000 miles away a friend is dying, and knowing that i can't do anything but cry.

i don't know what else i can do, but to hold him in the Light and be grateful that i have him in my life.

p.s. I found out that I have Reynaud's syndrome, where my feet freeze solid at the slightest provocation ( Read more... )

today i stood back from the wall, paintbrush in hand, scanning, obsessing. had i finally finished painting? indeed i had ( Read more... )

tonight i showed my Mum a pair of socks I'm knitting, and she said "its amazing how you just flick your needles and sooner or later you have a sock." well, yes i suppose, each stitch same as the last but slightly different, and after a while, a sock appears ( Read more... )

oh my God, i forget how incredible my life is sometimes, and then i look out the window and remember that i hate snow and all things New Hampshire (except lilacs, which won't appear for another four months)

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
-Edward Abbey

I kind of hate state school and probably hate New Hampshire too. Hate's a strong word but I'm a strong lady (and making continual attempts to remain a classy one at that)

second week of school is finished and i remain blissfully alive and aware. made new friends, (a concept most abstract) and find joy reveling in and revealing to the world. falling in friend-love with new people i meet, im blessed to learn new things. stories are swirling through my head, blending and bringing life to the abstract, osmosing into ( Read more... )