reflecting on various topics
Last weekend we celebrated one of the kids’ birthdays. It was a very sweet time 🙂 The birthday boy designed his cake: chocolate cake, with vanilla (buttercream) frosting in the middle, and then half strawberry frosting and half chocolate on top. It felt like a little moment of normalcy in what has been a whole …
I went for a drive down to the Elfin Forest. It’s a wonderful little slice of nature with trails- so many trails! I don’t even know where they end. The main one is on wood. I wanted to take more pics but my phone died. I just find it to be a magical place! It’s …
Do you remember the book The Velveteen Rabbit (by Margery Williams) ? I remember being touched by it when I was a kid. A stuffed animal rabbit becomes a living rabbit, because of being loved. The problem with being real is that the world is not safe. It would be really nice if the world …
I got outside for some sunshine today. It was really nice. This is Morro Bay at low tide. There were little ducks nibbling in the green in the water. There is a lot of sea grass and mud. There have been some storms recently. ♥️
There is a heaviness over me, right now. It’s situational and warranted. I’ve been going through old photos and it’s exquisitely painful to me for a bunch of reasons at once. I see how quickly my kids are growing. I see how recently my life was different than it is now, and think of what …
I’m not going to list all of my favorites, but here are a few that I really love. 1. West Side Story (Original, 1961) This musical is written on my heart, backwards and forwards. I’ve memorized so much of it. I grew up on it. via GIPHY via GIPHY d a 2. Music and Lyrics …
I read something recently that a friend of mine posted online: Lean on the artists. They gift us reprieve, respite & often a way forward. — Grateful David ✌🏼❤️⚡️💙💀🌹 (@gratefuldavid.bsky.social) February 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM It impacted me. I thought about every major tragedy that has happened, and about the art that people kept …
I was going through files from my college laptop and I found this video from 2010. It was in my choir class at Pepperdine with Milton Pullen, and us music education majors were taking turns practicing conducting our own choir. (The piece is “Amor de mi Alma,” by Z. Randall Stroope). It’s really moving to …
this morning in a tweet: when you’re so hungry that the sweet coating of your advil feels like a major food group at from yesterday: at keeping watch I see a bird on the top of our neighbor’s chimney a perfect silhouette against the sky I wonder if it can see the ocean, and what …
I went for a walk today. I tried to notice things. Tried to be present. I loved all the shades in the trunk of this eucalyptus tree. something about it really got to me Hope you’re ok. ♥️
