May 2012
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“But if you tried to love a simple thing- have you tried to love the simple...”
– Animal Collective’s “Working”
May 23rd
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May 1st
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March 2012
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Over the next six months I will be: Driving 1,700 miles from Michigan to Chicago, IL- Boulder/Steamboat Springs, CO- Monticello, UT. Spending the spring and early summer working, hiking, and exploring in Utah. Flying to Dublin with my two best friends. Spending three glorious weeks traveling through Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain. Returning home to Michigan to hike Isle Royale...
Mar 2nd
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Mar 1st
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“Go out in your country where the land meets the sun See the craters and the...”
Mar 1st
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February 2012
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“Why do you stay here and live this mean moiling life, when a glorious existence...”
– Thoreau’s Walden
Feb 20th
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The biggest reason I want to live alone:             So I can fall asleep without the glow or sounds of a television affecting my mind. It will be dark, and silent, and I will read and sleep peacefully.
Feb 8th
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“There is a love that sleeps inside the canyons of our deepest dreaming lives. A...”
– Blitzen Trapper’s “Heaven and Earth”
Feb 6th
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“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company,...”
– Thoughts on solitude in Thoreau’s Walden
Feb 5th
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January 2012
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“Suddenly the future existed; it would turn me into another being, someone who...”
– Simone de Beauvoir’s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Jan 31st
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“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jan 29th
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Jan 24th
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“The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new...”
– Selections from Thoreau’s Walden
Jan 8th
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Jan 2nd
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December 2011
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Rain, rain, go away, and bring instead some snow to play in!
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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“I long to see you in the morning light”
– Bob Dylan’s”Lay Lady Lay”
Dec 12th
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Dec 7th
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“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long...”
– Kahlil Gibran
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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November 2011
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“It’s like, there’s all these emotions and ideas and they come quick...”
– Clementine, from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Nov 30th
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“And tell me why, why won’t you love me for who I am, where I am? You...”
– Simon & Garfunkel’s “Hearts and Bones”
Nov 27th
Nov 19th
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Nov 15th
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“My home is with the hills and trees around me My ceiling holds the moon and...”
– Trampled by Turtles
Nov 9th
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Nov 3rd
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Nov 2nd
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“The leaves of all my promises gracefully covered in gold, so that each one now...”
– Anne Marie Rooney’s “The Scar on My Wrist Was Not a Wrist”
Nov 1st
October 2011
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‘What do you fear, lady?’ he asked. ‘A cage,’ she said. ‘To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.’
Oct 31st
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Oct 29th
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Take Offs and Landings.
Oct 26th
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Oct 24th
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Footsteps of Our Forefathers
We have arrived on the cusp of our civilization turning back to the dust of the Earth. On our backs we carry a cloak of darkness, it rests upon our shoulders. Its weight is the infinite expanse of the night sky that stretches out before our eyes as we gaze upwards. It is sprinkled with the twilight of stars that burn through the darkness behind us, emanating a glow that allows us to follow in one...
Oct 21st
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Oct 16th
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If only I could find a way to knit and run/bike simultaneously- life would be perfect!
Oct 13th
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“There ain’t nothing like the woods to clear your head”
– Murder by Death
Oct 12th
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“I can’t hear my heart beating over these thoughts at night, and it sounds...”
– Breathe Owl Breathe
Oct 10th
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Oct 5th
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“I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I’d like [city life] for a while… but in the end, I’d still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal”- Anne of Green Gables I need to find more kindred spirits.
Oct 3rd
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Is there anything more beautiful than a Michigan maple burning orange, set against the backdrop of dark, autumn storm clouds?
Oct 3rd
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Oct 2nd
September 2011
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Kalamazoo-bound!
Sep 29th
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Sep 27th
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The sensation of pedaling through puddles, the scent of the leaves starting to change and drop to the ground, cool air rushing over my arms, the sun setting behind clouds of white, purple, and pink- I wanted to shout out “Life is so beautiful”!
Sep 27th
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“When I’m by myself, I can be myself, and my life is coming but I...”
– Arcade Fire
Sep 23rd
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Sep 23rd
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Sep 21st
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“I’ve felt the wind on my cheek coming down from the East, and thought...”
– Rilo Kiley
Sep 17th
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To evolve. I love the thought of such a process.
Sep 16th