the beach!

i learned that cake must have candles regardless of whether or not it is someone's birthday...


















super awesome fountain at CSLB

serious...

not serious....





































i like how you can see both mine and leila's arms in our sunglasses, it's like a hug!





















yes, she is that amazing.















































hoodies!
































those waves!!!............




































okay so there was sand all in my bathing suit!!! and in my ears, and in my mouth, it's just ridiculous

i love morning

i have discovered that i love staying up late. it's amazing. if i keep my eyes open for long enough, i get to experience the song of the birds and the basic silence created when people have not yet interrupted it. While my eyes are open i still get to be a part of the big world, but when they are closed it's all me. Who wants that?? i don't. right now, i'm still with you, but in a few minutes i'll be making up stuff about all of you in my dreams...none of which is true to anyone but myself. therefore, sleeping is just selfish and i don't promote it!

The Little Prince

I really loved reading this book. Here's why:

"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
"I was too young to know how to love her."
"I need to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to get to know the butterflies."
"[People] have no roots, which hampers them a good deal."
"Language is the source of misunderstandings"
"I'll discover what it costs to be happy!"
"Go look at the roses again. You'll understand that yours is the only rose in all the world."
"One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisable to the eyes."
"You see nothing. You hear nothing. And yet something shines, someting sings in that silence..."
"but when someone blushes, doesn't it mean 'yes'?"
"You understand. It's too far away. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy."

he possesses honesty and selflessness. i believe he's probably an angel.


*on a funnier note, after reading this quotation: "If the two billion inhabitants of the globe were to stand close together...they would easily fit into a city block that was 20 miles long and 20 miles wide." I decided to calculate it and decided this could only be true if all the people there were each HUGGING one other person. Pretty good conclusion, no? the next lines in the story proceeded to say not to try to calculate it because that's what grown ups do! So I guess I'm officially a grown up, I must say that kind of sucks. but i love the hugging part!

rocks

i've lost love.
haven't been able to find it for days.
i lost hope before... i made joe run up a hill with me to find it.
but now, i don't know what to do.
there are no more hills, and love is still gone.

trust

John Henry Newman wrote: "God has created me, to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission-- I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for nothing. Therefore, I will trust him. Whatever, wherever I am. I cannot be thrown away."

life

Today i was reminded of what is important in life. I also found out how in just a few words, what i thought of someone could change completely. I wouldn't say that that's good or bad necessarily, just surprising. Time spent with those i love is very important. God has blessed me with so many people and experiences that it is impossible to reflect on my day without smiling. To everyone I spent time with, laughed with, spoke with, or thought about today, I love you. You make my life more splendid than I could have imagined on my own.

I'm giving in

So I finally decided to make one of my own. (I wasn't sure what to name it, but I just decided to go with a couple of my favorite words) After weeks of admiring the posts and pictures on Lisa's and Brandon's pages, I've created a blog for myself. Hopefully it will be half as lovely as either one of theirs. :-) p.s. Benny is snoring.