Showing posts with label getting lost.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label getting lost.. Show all posts

4.13.2013

looking up.

I was going through some pictures on my computer that I took with my phone and came across this gem: 


"I told him I was looking up at the sky. He said, "That's a misconception, Lennie, the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet."

Does anyone else love that as much as I do? It's from a YA novel called The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson. I read it last Spring semester for a Young Adult lit class. 

Endless possibility in such a statement. I can't quite come up with why or how, but it's beautiful. 

6.27.2012

give me a thousand pages.

















I'm kind of into traveling.
Partly because it scares me to death.
Partly because it takes me completely out of my element.
And partly because the possibilities are endless.
An endless amount of experiences to expand my mind in ways and through things I can only imagine.
And even then, what I imagine is so different in the best way than what is real.
Than what is out there.

New York City was wonderful. Different than I imagined, but exciting and loud.
I, naturally, preferred the quiet places we found.
The other side of Brooklyn bridge. The High Line. Central Park. Random places we toured on buses and areas we wandered through.
I like artsy stuff and pretty scenes. Fewer people.   

I think that's what is so great about going someplace new.
Finding those quiet spots. In all the chaos.
The moments that make you realize people are just people.
Regardless of where you are.

I really liked those people that talked to us on the subway. And the guy that sang for us at that restaurant. Don't get me started on our tour guides, they were just too much (seriously, so great).

I'm really bad at making decisions and knowing what I want, but one thing I know for sure: I love the uncomfortable feeling I get being somewhere that is just itching to stretch me and begging me to choose and decide. That feeling feels like me growing. And I think I could get used to it.

6.15.2012

I think I'll go to New York.


So one fine day (about a month ago) I bought a ticket to New York City. 
I've never been there before, but ever since partying in Europe for four months I've had this longing for such an adventure again. 
You know...big cities, getting lost, that kind of stuff.

And while this is on a (much) smaller scale, I kind of can't wait!
I'm staying with a friend and taking my dear friend, Natalie to explore with me.

We have a number of things we want to do, but not exactly a plan. 
Which I find to be perfect. 

The number one thing on my list?
Breakfast at Tiffany's.

And from there on out, I'm happy to just experience the big apple. 
That's what they call it right?

I just finished school for the summer
and
I'm heading out on the red-eye tonight.
Wish me luck!


6.05.2012

a last-minute california road trip is good for:

lots of singing in the car. many trips to c'est si bon (bless those chocolate croissants). floppy hats. pink peonies. mani/pedis. reading on the beach. awkward sunburns. shopping. ferris wheels. a farewell (but also the opposite of that).
stories from the best pair of sisters I've ever met (my sweet grandma and my aunt shirley). more shopping. mexican cokes. ortega burgers. gooood food. balboa island. the ferry. and lots of phone pictures.
newport, newport, newport, we love you :) 
 
 

4.12.2012

let's.

[always]
tell each other secrets all the time. even when we feel like we know everything. (especially then).
whisper. and be still. enjoy each other.
dance. even though you hate it.
forgive.
change, be different every day. if different means better.


laugh.

above all, let's laugh.

2.10.2012








because I feel like love is all I want to talk about in February [the loveliest of all the months] or at least all I want to look at...

and things in my life are pretty lovely too.

11.18.2011

praising the insignificant.

Last night we went to look at the stars because it said stuff online about atmospheres and meteors and things falling and seeing lovely things and the sky .
But the sky was half-way covered with clouds.
The thick gray kind.
The thick gray kind that warm the city up.
The thick gray kind that prevent you from any sort of star seeing.
(it was almost like the smell of snow. almost. the snow is coming soon...and the thick gray clouds is how I know).

This morning I woke up really early, before any color was in the sky.
My dreams still close from sleep.
I sat in my living room and from the corner of my eye, that color began to show up.
It started out cool and slowly lit on fire.
"Red skies in morning, sailors fair warning"
repeated in my thoughts
as I sat there. Studying.
Or trying to.

And while sitting there I read something about "praising the insignificant."
How, in being an honest person, you give praise to what is seemingly insignificant.

That lingered in my thoughts (the ones full with red skies).

By praising the significant,
don't you give it significance?
By writing something down, complimenting it, noticing it,
don't you give that
thing
(whatever it may be)
power?
love?
worth?
meaning?


The sky set the leaves on fire. And my window was a picture of all that is significant.

10.10.2011

I dream of this:



“they talked excitedly for hours: about the sound of the cello, silent films, and the memories they both associated with the smell of salt water.” 


“Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.” 


“If I had a camera,” I said, “I’d take a picture of you every day. That way I’d remember how you looked every single day of your life.” “I look exactly the same.” “No, you don’t. You’re changing all the time. Every day a tiny bit. If I could, I’d keep a record of it all.” 


“I found it almost unbearably beautiful.” 


all quotes found in The History of Love

7.18.2011

what I love about full moons.

they are perfect for making you all sorts of
nervous.
confident.
scared.
intrigued.
wonderstruck.
hurt.

I guess that's just the way it is.

dear full moon,

please spotlight the grass, and let us hide under the trees.
most likely the sprinklers will come on and soak us.
but oh, won't it be fun?
a good story, if nothing else, to be sure.

sincerely,
me (a moon also)
PS. thanks for being beautiful.

4.22.2011

because there was sunshine. (and the semester is over)

I love many things about summer. Especially since I've gone to BYU.
I love that for me, it starts in April. (Always in time for my birthday)
I love that I can read whatever my heart desires. (I even have an [unfinished] list)

**I've never read Jane Eyre but I feel like I should...
and rereading Harry Potter 7 seems appropriate??
Feel free to offer more suggestions.

There are certain things about Summertime that I just love. 

Sunglasses are probably my favorite accessory, to go along with bare feet and no makeup.
My mom and I like to sit on my driveway on beach chairs (and if we listen hard enough we can hear the waves...or at least we pretend to)
I like the way my skin smells after it has spent too much time in the sun and the way it looks as my freckles begin to pop out.
Being able to see the stars every night and gaze at them (without shivering) is the kind of magic I wait all year for.
Happy Hour at Sonic (Cranberry Limeade).
Bike rides up the canyon.
Reading outside in the sunshine.
Tubing down the ice cold river.
Driving around with the windows down.
Wearing sun dresses and jean shorts.

In the Spring air I can smell Summer.
And even though I love Winter (snow is kind of like family), I can't wait for the heat.

2.26.2011

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
Marilyn Monroe

via: we heart it

I change my mind a lot.
I wish I didn't.
But I do.

I wish someone would just tell me exactly what I'm supposed to do.
And
If anyone wanted to take me on a roadtrip to...
California
or
Las Vegas
or
St. George
or
Anywhere, really,
I'd let them.


In fact, I think it would be lovely.

10.10.2010

of every blessing.

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it. 
Prone to leave the God I love. 
Here's my heart, O take and seal it. 
Seal it for Thy courts above. 

7.01.2010

quite odd.


I feel like I've been gone for five years.
It's only been a week.
But so much changed in that week.
Too much, I think.
I miss all my favorite people I left in the south.
And I missed all my favorite people I've come back to.




Here's to optimism. It's seemed to always work best for me.

6.23.2010

maybe it's the stardust in my head.

just some thoughts that have been on my mind as of late...





I'm leaving to Louisiana as soon as I get off work.
Which is very exciting in case you were wondering.
It makes me feel all old and awesome-like.
We'll be listening to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the whole way (thanks to Kara).
And eating cakebites.


See ya'll in a week!
I'm headed SOUTH



pictures 2 and 3 are from etsy
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2.07.2010

hope.


Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God’s love encompasses us completely.

He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our résumé but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God’s love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

What this means is that, regardless of our current state, there is hope for us. No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near to Him so that He can draw near to us.

[See D&C 88:63.] [President Uchtdorf “The Love of God,” 22–23]



Doesn't that just give you hope?

God loves us. More than we can even imagine.

And He is there.

Regardless of our weaknesses and faults.



love song of the day: lost


because love can overcome anything

2.02.2010

you and I.


love song of the day: you and I
original by stevie wonder
redone by michael buble.

both give me chills.

1.23.2010

sunshine is warm.



Does anyone else remember that??
I sure forgot. It's really quite magical.

toes in the sand.
hair in the wind.
top down.
good talks.
good food.
good people.

Yes, last weekend felt...good. My short, but oh so sweet, trip to Newport with these lovely ladies:

was greatly needed.

We laughed. We didn't care about anything but relaxing. We danced whenever and wherever we wanted to. We shopped. We ate cupcakes. We smelled the ocean (which smelled oh so good). We saw Elder Shane Hewlett at the Newport Beach Temple (crazy, right?!?). We made friends with the guy at the tire shop after our tire exploded.
No really, it exploded.


Yes, we had a lovely time.