Better Late then Never

I know I haven't been a faithful blogger as of late, but I've just been so busy with school that it fell out of my scope to be honest. But thankfully that direct focus has paid off and my grades are great! A lot has changed though...

• I've fulfilled my goal of increasing my daily water intake. I feel Great!
• My other goal of keeping my room cleaner on a more regular basis has also been completed, its really nice to go to sleep and wake up to a clean room.
• I've also started buying local and organic. I can truly feel a difference fueling my body with a better source.  

In all.. I'm just happier. I like feeling this way. There are little moments every day I just have that happy feeling. I relish them.

Even sitting in the library trying to teach myself Environmental Policy I feel the moment coming on. I had to document it.

Thank you Philip for the use of his Mac.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

- Groucho Marx

Lack of Color

                                                                                                      

Leaf. Lopez Island WA.

I don't see a lack of color.
Only something from a simpler perspective.
Something for those of us who see things a little differently.

Ask anyone to explain my photo and you'll get a different answer.Different than yours, and mine, even though I snapped the photograph. Does that make them incorrect?
Not at all.

In fact the only right answer is apparent to only the Individual.

So why is it that when asked to give opinions and reflections on require materials, say in class, we're considered 'wrong' more often then not? What is it about my answer that doesn't agree with your personal answer that makes me wrong? Thanks to the power associated with you being the professor and I the student, all I can do is accept your judgement and try again. I wish it weren't so. At least tell me why I'm considered
incorrect.



Flakes

It snowed last night. By midnight there was atleast 6 inches of powder out there. So of course we had to go play in the ally.

I felt like a kid again.
This morning it was all gone. The snow had turned to rain and washed it all away even before the sun rose. As I lay in bed at watched the rain fall all I could think about was how quickly life changes. Good or Bad. The only constant is change. I need to learn to welcome it in my life, stop fighting it. Nothing good can come of resisting. It's a difficult task but one I feel I can accomplish.
R.I.P. Snow Bitch. You're snowy presence will be missed.

Why are you Here Now?

Walking on the first day of school I stopped momentarily to pull a damned rock out of my new Toms shoes only to find I was standing right over my favorite brick on the entire campus.
Why, out of the millions of bricks on campus is this one my favorite you ask? What could be so special about something so simple?
Because, it makes me think.
Really gets my brain moving.
It's something that inspires, refreshes, revitalizes and comforts all at the same time.

Just a simple brick. Right?

This year is going to be one of (hopefully) changes for the better. This is my inspiration. Whenever I lose sight of the end point I just have to as myself...
"Why are you here now"