VACATION

FOG

SWIM CLUB

holding onto your fishing line i can feel the future just fine

i can feel the future babe it’s tumbling down your cheek.

EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES

“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.” Tom Robbins

Some photos I took this past Tuesday during a fantastic, inspiring day of work.

FRANTIC

“Ask her what she craved, and she’d get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.”

Charles Frazier / Nightwoods

BOOKS

“A clear precursor to such landmark works as On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Visions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights in bars and apartments engaged in intense conversation, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness.” Read this on the back cover of The Sea is My Brother while visiting the Tattered Cover book shop in Denver, Colorado. These themes haunt me. I love everything he ever wrote.

LOST

I love how this woman sees and writes.

“And then you discover your friends are poets and magicians. That the sun shines even when it’s cold.

Now there are new hours, new days and weeks.”

SYNCHRONICITY

“TUNE IN TURN ON DROP OUT” & EXPLORE

“Tune in to the synchronicity of chance meetings, losing valued objects, animal teachers appearing unexpectedly, billboard-license plate messages directed explicitly at you, knocks on the head, slips of the tongue, old letters, papers, songs reappearing with whole new significance revealed – this energy can take any form – a shockingly bad turn of events or delightful, unexpected outcomes, but the point is, there exists an opportunity to reorganize our perceptions when startling circumstances present themselves.”

This energy is ALWAYS there; everywhere – do you see it? Take time & explore on 11.11.

via Mystic Mamma

WISDOM

Finally starting a blog to get brave, get writing and to learn more about web design. Choosing to focus on my most favorite and best subjects- nostalgia, simplicity, the woods, taking pictures.  Shutting down the computer and getting outside. Sleeping in the woods. Turning off the phone. Buying less / buying better + smarter – ingredients, clothes, shoes, sheets. In a super ON world, is shutting OFF possible?  OFF and AWAY have become devastatingly important spaces/places for me to get to. As I watch myself, my sisters, brother, and contemporaries grow, its clear these conceptual places are quickly fading. I know that my intelligence, sanity, and advancement (personally/professionally/spiritually) rely on my access and drive to reach for the OFF switch.   This stuck with me, and changed my scope: “Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.” -Yogananda

COFFEE

New Hampshire, October 2013

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Morning fog, beautiful sleep, hot coffee.

No cell service, heat, or shower. Feeling free and completely happy.