Things I’m Passionate About

One of my blogging quirks is that I get bored of my own layouts really easily. Yesterday Wordpress put out a new theme, and I hopped on board right away because I love a custom header and three columns. What do you think (RSS readers click here if you’d like to see)?
All right, on to the [...]

Just Slow Me Down

 
Don’t those look yummy? And so pink! That’s the only reason I picked this picture. It has nothing to do with the rest of the post. Yes, I love that color. I admit it, the “Barbie aisle” was a beacon of shimmering pink bliss for me when I was growing up.
Sometimes I feel like every [...]

Waking from Dreams

 
“That was an autumn of cold winds that stripped the leaves from the trees and blew them in clouds through the street. I would wake from dreams and hear the leaves against my window.”
(My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok)
In a way, autumn is like waking up from the dream of summer. Today is the [...]

looking at it

 
things have been feeling a little undone lately. time for some refocusing, some reordering. i’m not sure how or where. i just need to think about it, how all my puzzle pieces fit together. and how a loss of tunnel vision might be best in the long run. there’s a lot more to see when the [...]

Where I End

I couldn’t put it better:
“I still have the luggage tag tied to my messenger bag. I can be stubborn and sentimental like that, but I know I should move on. Life is more than a destination. If I would put myself aside, I’m sure I’d find scandalous paradoxes here or anywhere.
Where I end, He begins.”
[thundered [...]

Hearing Music for the First Time

One of the Xangas I’m subscribed to is written by a sweet lady who has been deaf her entire life. She recently underwent cochlear implant surgery, which put a device in her ear that would allow her some level of hearing for the first time ever. I’m reading the first blog she wrote since the device [...]