go outside

isn't it funny how social media's initial intention was to try to keep one in touch with his/her friends and family, to share experiences, to keep up to date of whatever one's interests are, to try to connect with one another, etc... however, for me, it's reached a point where i want to detach, log off, unfollow, unlike, fall off the radar... its intention has become the opposite for me. i'm pretty sure i'm overwhelmed with information i don't really need to see, hear, read, know, etc., but i'm also pretty sure that there's a sort of temporary joy in garnering attention that we start to rely on. truth is, this kind of shallow attention gets old. it has made me not want to be found, to want to distance myself. i longed to connect with friends and family that i can't be face-to-face with. i thought these apps/networking sites/whatever were the solutions, but the innate desire to connect through smell, touch, sight, words, to be in the presence of a human being familiar to me, has turned me off to these things.

no rules

what is YOUR definition of love?

in the city, in the city

in the city there's a thousand things, i want to say to you
but whenever i approach you, you make me look a fool...

lead bellied

probably my favorite nirvana performance...

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hello darkness my old friend

hearing aids

classixx on repeat a lot lately...

i'm enjoying these as well... while driving... in my prius.

el-A

hello, los angeles.

bien sûr

"Within any clearly imagined dream, far beyond the curtains of time and space, Mae, lies the intelligence and energy to choreograph the entire sequence of events necessary to make it manifest as soon as possible.

And if you physically move towards that dream, demonstrating both faith and belief, making yourself available to "accidents and coincidences," not insisting on the hows and rolling with what may come, the sequence is permitted to play itself out.

Understand, however, that since you will only perceive this sequence with your physical senses upon a linear time line, it will likely seem that much of your journey doesn't make sense, is unpredictable, or may even appear off-course."

here

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”

Haruki Murakami 

gulch green gulch

if i could hike for a living, i would. i always love the hike through green gulch zen center and up through muir beach and tennessee valley. if it's one thing i regret not doing more of during my time in northern california, it's the hikes, or rather, seeing and being with nature. but it's ok, there is time and i will be back up here more times than i can plan on.