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and regarding your family?

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:31:47 -0400

get over your resentment. remain in the present. para que puedes treasure your treasure.

i am blessed. simply, graciously, and extravagantly blessed. tonight was a good reminder. i do not...

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:30:31 -0400

i am blessed. simply, graciously, and extravagantly blessed.

tonight was a good reminder. i do not need to go out on a grand adventure to find what i am looking for in life. tonight was what i am searching for in the form of friends, family, and cucumber kabobs.

so why am i running away from this? it’s been hard for me to ever feel a sense of community. the concept of community is one i value tremendously, but have never adequately felt. i guess i’ve always felt more like a temporary space occupier. but that is a false illusion. i have spent my life building a community, and tonight i felt it. i have friends here in connecticut that i love - that i would happy to host dinner parties with the rest of my life. THAT’S what matters. feeling love and helping one another. i have a community here to fall back on. if i stumble, they lift me up.

am i abandoning that? how foolish am i?

i remain stoic, but not tonight. i’m scared to build a new community from scratch. i WILL be very much alone in DC. i’ve put my faith in the good people i will meet and the life i will build, but i feel the reality right now. i am blessed with a beautiful, intelligent, joyful, loving, supportive community that i am abandoning for….

this is me growing. the pain, the discomfort, the unease… this is what growing and learning feels like.

reminder: treasure your treasure.

my future: doctorswithoutborders: Photo: Over the next four...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:20:12 -0400

my future:

doctorswithoutborders:

Photo: Over the next four weeks, MSF project coordinator Will Turner and his team will mount an expedition to screen 40,000 people for sleeping sickness in remote villages of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

DRC: Through northern Congo with a fridge

Travelling along muddy rainforest tracks by motorbike and crossing swollen rivers by dugout canoe while carrying a refrigerator, a microscope and a generator is no easy task. But this is what MSF project coordinator Will Turner and his team will be doing for the next four weeks.

Without treatment, sleeping sickess - transmitted by the tsetse fly - is always fatal.

awelltraveledwoman: jamesnord: iPhone roundup from my trip to...

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:28:39 -0400

awelltraveledwoman:

jamesnord:

iPhone roundup from my trip to Norway with Rapha. There are more on my Instagram, should you be so inclined.

Stunning

>June 17th. Here I come, Norway.

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Sat, 11 May 2013 13:26:41 -0400

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Wed, 08 May 2013 00:08:10 -0400

"and when your children’s children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop,..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:58:07 -0400

“and when your children’s children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the roads, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land”

- chief seattle’s famous speech.

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Sat, 04 May 2013 19:43:57 -0400

"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:40:16 -0400

““We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.””

- Pico Iyer (via tenuous-at-best)

now you’re gone, and all that’s left, a piece of you i can’t forget. soft and...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:32:49 -0400

now you’re gone, and all that’s left,

a piece of you i can’t forget.

soft and sweet nature’s voice,

can’t forget we’ve got no choice.

did you find love?

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:06:47 -0400

this lyric has been a favorite of mine over the past year. it very simply states an indescribable feeling evoked by two very different scenarios.

did you find love? i need to know so that i can free myself from the guilt of ending our relationship. so i no longer feel responsible for your happiness.

did you find love? i need to know because i still love you. i need to know where you stand. have you moved on? i need to know so that i know it’s time to truly get over you.

but tonight, i heard this lyric differently than ever before, in a much more meaningful way.

i asked myself: did YOU find love, paul? in this life, did you find love?

well, that is a much more meaningful question. the other questions are beyond my control. this question puts fate back into my own hands. and this very simple question, which holds indescribably momentous meaning, has a very simple answer.

yes. absolutely. just today i found enough love to last a lifetime in four young dreamers browsing through a world atlas. today i found love in laughter. today i found love in the polish/italian man feeding the rabbits in their hutches as the sun pierced the greenhouse. in peruvian cookies sharing a message of pure joy, love, and beauty. i found love with my sister.

paul, you are always searching. stop searching. you found it.

gone all star white, small as a wish in a well.

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:55:29 -0400

gone all star white,

small as a wish in a well.

cabinporn: The ‘Kristina Forest Hut’ at Kolarbyn Eco Lodge...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:15:21 -0400

cabinporn:

The ‘Kristina Forest Hut’ at Kolarbyn Eco Lodge near Skinnskatteberg, Sweden.

Contributed by Sofija Torebo Strindlund. More photos.

ATTN MELISSA KUZOIAN regarding this summer…..

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Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:52:42 -0400

likeafieldmouse: Mark Tipple - The Underwater Project...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:46:20 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Mark Tipple - The Underwater Project (2010-12)

“Nick Drake’s songs are about gaining the confidence...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:17:00 -0400

“Nick Drake’s songs are about gaining the confidence to speak, and sharing confidences, saying what can be only said to those you trust. To listen to this music is to learn how to listen…” -Ann Powers

why have i not been listening to john legend all my life?

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:51:00 -0400

why have i not been listening to john legend all my life?

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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:31:10 -0400

What Nick Drake Taught Me About Art And Love : NPR

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:30:12 -0400

What Nick Drake Taught Me About Art And Love : NPR:

Some music feels so personal, it’s hard to think about sharing it with anyone else. A new tribute album of songs by the folk singer Nick Drake (featuring many musicians who themselves hold Drake dear) tests the limits of one critic’s ability to share that love.

enriquevijil: Jaime Sabines

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:50:45 -0400

enriquevijil:

Jaime Sabines