wordless wednesday [6]
3rd October 2012 | travels, wordless wednesday | 0 comments
2 weeks in SoCal. An attempt at a photojournal.
{014/365} rainier
21st August 2012 | 365 | 0 comments
there was one plan rhoda and i made before the summer for the summer: go to mt. rainier.
and so the day before we took emily to the airport and i left eatonville, we finally went.
i have never been there before.
it was BEAUTIFUL. absolutely breath-taking. and lovely. and perfect.
and you know what was crazy? when we got out of the car, the pita chips we’d brought for a snack were INFLATED. it was AWESOME.
{003/365} aug 9
9th August 2012 | 365, camp arnold. | 0 comments
we were sitting on the bleachers, watching the side by side kids launch their rockets when we heard a little tiny ding noise and emily, upset, exclaimed that she she had dropped her earring in the tall grass under the bleachers. braden went to look for it, and none of us were really supportive of him. and then a few moments later he popped up with this held between his fingers. he’d found emily’s earring! that is skill.
then i was hit with the need for BEing time {as madeleine l’engle calls it}; to just sit and exist and rest and be quiet. so i grabbed the book i’m currently reading {and it was good, by madeleine l’engle} and decided to sit behind the chapel, because i have never done that. mosquitoes did a fantastic job of eating me, so although i enjoyed my few minutes behind the chapel, i might have to go back to the bench by the lake as my BEing place.
{002/365} i’m a little teapot.
9th August 2012 | 365 | 0 comments
emily and i stayed the night at the boettcher’s. we played ticket to ride {braden won} and didn’t watch star wars episode v.
january 16, 2012 – it is the nature of love to create.
16th January 2012 | everyday life | 0 comments
16/365 – dan
in the book the irrational season, madeleine l’engle says that “it is the nature of love to create.” and how true. when i love, when i am overwhelmed with love, i want to create. i want to write songs or paint pictures or color with crayons or cut things out of magazines and glue them to paper. i want to write letters and make friendship bracelets and make cards.
and i love dan. not romantically, mind you. but he is kind and insightful and funny. and he is going to marry mollie, which i love a lot as well. so i made dan this card. because madeleine l’engle was right, or at the least, madeleine l’engle was accurate to my experiences in life.
so this is dan and the card i made him.
january 1, 2012
1st January 2012 | 101, 365, everyday life, travels | 0 comments
{1/365}
what a year 2011 was. and here it’s already 2012. is it just me, or do the years seem to be passing at a quicker speed than before?
i am very excited about 2012, just like i was excited about 2011 and 2010 and 2009 before than, and 2008 before that. i’m not a resolution person, because usually i forget about them until june and by then i decide to just wait for the new year. but i did start that 101 in 1001 list. and i’ve been working on it. so check this.
#57. hold lucy and layla.
#95. buy flowers for my room once a month.
no words, just lyrics.
oh wow look at you now flowers in the window
it’s such a lovely day and i’m glad you feel the same
cause to stand up, out in the crowd
you are one in a million and i love you so
let’s watch the flowers grow
#96. take a self portrait each month.
we are having a craft evening in a few so i must round up my loads of magazine cutouts and my collage journals.
an extraordinary merry christmas.
27th December 2011 | everyday life | 2 comments
i want to show you what i got for christmas; not because i got any huge, mind-blowing surprises. instead, i want to show you what i got for christmas because at the end of the day, i laid in my bed and thought “people know me.” my friends, my family.. they KNOW me. not just because we identify each other by first name, but because they have spent time with me and learned who i am. and so i want to show you, in a few different pictures, how much people know me.
first, from my mom. the glee concert movie, trader joe’s hot cocoa, vs pink & target gift card, a perfume/lotion set from vs & a pair of my recent favorite fit of jeans {rockstar, from old navy}
and finally! megan always participates in blog swaps and i was like “i want to do one!” which lead me to a blog swap on faison’s blog. and my partner was faison herself! which was so cool because i’ve done my fair share of trolling on her blog. no shame. this is what faison got me! a pink monkey that sings “only girl in the world,” a starbucks tumbler, peanut butter cup hot chocolate {it is declicious} and pink sparkly nail polish.
sometimes in life it is glamorous to be misunderstood and angry and scarred and alone. there is a certain kind of victory in living life like that, but i think there is also a quiet victory in actively choosing instead to be surrounded by love and stability and security. last night i crawled in to bed and wrapped my arms around patronus and pinkilis and drifted quickly to sleep with the knowledge that people know me well enough to get me hot chocolate or glitter pens or a justin bieber toothbrush that sings.
one of the most influential christmas songs in my life is sung by sandi patty. my dad got out of jail at the beginning of december many years ago and clung to christian radio to keep his spirit encouraged. we listened to this song over and over and over. i remember listening to it as i stacked piles of boxes on each other and built robots. it says this:
{and the gift goes on}
the Father gave the Son
the Son gave the Spirit
the Spirit gives us life
so we can give the gift of love.
that is what i have received this Christmas.
the Father, the Son, the Spirit, life, and love.
i saw a rainbow on Christmas. most people would’ve preferred snow, but i was quite pleased with sneaking glances at a rainbow in my rear view mirror as mercy me sang on the radio, “to save us all from Satan’s power when we were gone astray.”
what a Christmas. what a gift. what a love.
