i cannot wait.
i feel like a kid thinking about it.


in other news, i am overstressed, overworked, lacking motivation, feeling like i'm drowning in things i must do and have no time for the things i love. what am i to do? where can i get some more hours?

friday. march 20. two thousand nine.

i have lived in athens for almost five years. i am struck by the love i have for this town at some unexpected times.

i support this place. have love for the quirks, uncertainties that come with traveler's town, consistencies that come with a college town, the in and outs of music and art.

even during the times of heavy hearts, i have found joy in friday afternoons in downtown. maybe it's the freedom you can feel in air. and maybe it's my personal relief from a crazy week. but it's good.
today i spent some good time enjoying the first day of spring in this place.

i just wanted you to know that i love my town.

sorry if you are tired of hearing it.

when the blizzard hit,

(somehow i wrote this blog and forgot to post it. i still feel it necessary so here it is.)







i live in athens, georgia. i've lived in georgia my whole life. snow is rare. rarer than rare i'd say. we know about ice and we know about 100 degree summers, but we have little knowledge about snow first hand.
and it snowed. it was a blizzard. march 1, 2009 marked an epic day.
and we're not talking georgia snow which is like 1/2 an inch. we had 7 inches of snow.
it was a glorious way to begin march. a fresh start with a blanket of snow.
a day to be a kid again. where everyone is a friend, not a stranger.
where we couldn't do anything but laugh, or giggle as it may be, and jump and run, and throw snowballs.
where everyone just stopped and stood in amazement of our environment. it really made the community pause. they had no choice. it was beautiful.

honestly i smiled all day.

what's with today today?

so i don't claim to be a blogger or known in the blog world by any means, but i do spend quite some time on this open internet perusing people and their displays.

i'm into design, photography, and all things homemade.

i have a heart for community building and music and art that changes lives.

i dig written words used well.

i like to see people expressing themselves brillantly.

all this to say, i have found some people on this world wide web that i don't know but their blogs have struck me over the year or so i've been here.

and today, in my daily read of the feeds at my office, i was caught off guard when i see the longbrake is saying goodbye. he has always been one of my favorites to follow. his photography and words have inspired.

also, found these lovelies this morning. stamp printing is pretty much awesome. i want this. thank you noun.

hope you are having a brillant monday.

thankfully february is almost over.

we're going where
where the wind will steer
we're going where
we can beat our fears
we're going where
we'll make some babies and teach them how to love
we're going where
there's the largest zoo
we're going where
all our friends can be too
we're going where
we have no choice but to open our doors with love
lets open the doors


"dove" castledoor

this is what i'm talking about.

from David Horvitz

a year ago.

i try to avoid being to "too honest" most of the time out of fear, yet i realize that is working against everything i believe in. so here you go.


a year ago today, i lost my best friend.
my heart still aches the same as it has the past 12 months.
she taught me so much about life, simply by the way she lived.
she taught me what love looks like in life. what friendship means. what jesus looks like. the beauty of sharing life with another person. what freedom is.
most of what i live my life for today i learned from her. and that's true.

it is strange to live life without her. knowing that we work for the same purpose. she has made me live better.
her life touched my life.
i miss her more than i can put into words
but i have learned that i cannot stop and sit in my hole like i would prefer.

life is to be lived. that i know. that i learned. that i can see.
i will live out this life in hopes that i could show someone what she showed me. that i could be half the friend she was to me. that i could be centered.

i have a lot more to say that i cannot put into words.

take this for now.