I'm reading Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl for the first time. May seem like a strange pick for the holiday season, but it's a wonderful reminder to not take a single thing for granted. In the face of such terror and harsh living conditions, listening to bombs dropping night after night, eating boiled rotten cabbage for weeks on end, and after 22 months of confinement, Anne still manages such a positive outlook — and she's only 14 years old! I can't help wishing that I had an attitude like hers:
"I'm young and strong and living through a big adventure; I'm right in the middle of it and can't spend all day complaining because it's impossible to have any fun! I'm blessed with many things: happiness, a cheerful disposition and strength. Every day I feel myself maturing, I feel liberation drawing near, I feel the beauty of nature and the goodness of the people around me. Every day I think what a fascinating and amusing adventure this is! With all that, why should I despair?"
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"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life." -Federico Fellini
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the facts
I am: female, 30, yankee born, dixie raised, living in the midwest, writing a memoir, & chronically seeking adventure.
I have: a tendency to be dramatic, a husband who is far from dramatic, a loud and lovable family, friends I would lie down in traffic for, & a killer sweet tooth.
I write: for practice, for sanity, & to capture the everyday things that make me grateful.
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my slight obsessions
- finding the perfect names for things (hence, the name of this blog)
- the desert
- the ocean
- adventures
- cranberry sauce
- dental floss
- decorating on a budget
- yoga
- all things country western
- campfires
- the smell of fall
- canyoneering
- counting crows
- apple picking
- road trips
- steinbeck
- friday night lights
- state fairs
- telephone poles
- third eye blind
- recycling
- train tracks
- reading lots (and lots) of literature
- skiing
- city skylines
- writing poetry
- collecting quotes
- black coffee
- georgia football
- cannoli, especially from little italy
- christmas traditions
- boiled peanuts
- sweet tea
- watching classic movies
- olives
quotes i [try to] live by
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." -Mother Teresa
"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be." -Marcus Aurelius
"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be." -Marcus Aurelius
"God sells us all things at the price of the labor." -Leonardo da Vinci
"And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." -Desiderata
"Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned..." -St. Francis
"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." -Einstein
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." -Vince Lombardi
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -Marcel Proust
"And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." -Desiderata
"Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned..." -St. Francis
"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." -Einstein
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." -Vince Lombardi
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -Marcel Proust
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