3 day backpacking trip in pescadero!

 we tramped through the woods, slumbered in tents,

filtered creek water, hunted for fungus,
played games cuddled by the fire,

and drew ember pictures in the night sky.

it was really refreshing to get away
from santa cruz (as so many
upsetting and disturbing events
have happened in the past 2 weeks).

zucchini

leah sent me a birthday/valentine's day package!

everything was so perfect,
aesthetically packaged + wrapped in hair-yarn
and dragonfly paper~*

i *really* liked the card she painted.

reading it made me so happy 8)
t h a n k  y o u !

this is the strangest headache

i have ever had.

its lasted for over 12 hours.

starting at the tip of my skull,

it slowly made its way down

the side of my face, through my

neck and had nestled into 

a spot at my neck

where it throbs and pulsates.

Social before Birth: Twins First Interact
with Each Other as Fetuses

a perfect day for tidepooling at

natural bridges state beach!

新年快乐!

umm totoro isn't a chinchilla..

he is a forest spirit.

today i took a midterm exam, came home

& found that my acorn slippers arrived in the mail!

now i shall no longer have cold feet!

one year ago, i was in queenstown^^
we rode horsies around
where they filmed scenes of LOTR
and everything looked like a painting:

lobelia, feverfews, viola, purslane

day no. 9

i can't believe sally is 20 years old.

she finally grew some hair.

 kindergartners *really* like this necklace.

they stare and grab at it.

melaka & tanah rata; malaysia.

purslane day no. 6

feverfew day no.6

for my cyborg anthropology class,
i am writing a paper on virtual pets and
exploring how children's engagement with them construct new possibilities for morality, intelligence and intimacy in an increasingly digitized consumer world. i'll look at the process of how young children develop cognitively, socially
and emotionally and make sense of reality
as they interact with and nurture "techno-intimacy"
with creatures that transgress the fluid
boundary between technology and biology.
(with an emphasis on the agency exercised by virtual pets).

"i don't play with it, i take care of it"

-a preschool girl in finland,
referring to her Tamagotchi.

10 beautiful things created by animals

purslane day no.4

the best and simplest cake.

:)