The best five minutes of my morning commute: the Writer's Almanac on NPR. It usually airs between 9:05 and 9:10, when I'm usually driving into work (late, because I have an abusive relationship with my snooze button).
Garrison Keillor has a voice so regal, I'm convinced he could read the ingredients off the side of a Cheez-It box aloud and they'd sound like priceless verse.
I love this poem from last week, as Ryan and I have spent countless hours pouring through glossy magazines and window shopping since we moved into our house in September. It's good to pause and remember that "we already have everything."
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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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