to avoid being hunted, wear orange.

this blog is 9 years old.

w0w. how time flies.

gardening gone wrong

(very wrong).

#mutantcorn

new discovery of the day:

kombucha is a good trap for fruit flies.

#capitalism

 "what happens with these beans?"

"we just grow them, but we don't know."

my sister shared this video with me

time to go to 
s l a t l a n d~

found some light while browsing during my
daily dose of almostlosinghopeinhumanity (aka the news)

a taekwondo school in a syrian refugee camp in jordan:

mops, it's yo birthday.
hope you enjoyed the meat

my beautiful pizza
i wish i could make a pizza
for every kid who wants a pizza.

sitting under a fiddleleaf fig tree

i made my mom a berry happy birthday cake~ 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 生日快乐~

fern groto caves, swimming holes,
redwoods, + hazy sunsets. 

it was so nice to be back in santa cruz~*

until next time!

maryna and i went up to san francisco to visit

theresa in the city! we ate alot of pastries,

strolled a botanical garden and

played with jelly (her chihuahua mix)!

then we got some plants and baklava.

got to catch up with my anthro tutoring buddy jeff.

we got strawberry sorbet, sat in the red room

and talked about genocide & cactus festivals.

thanks for the little dried opium poppy flower;

i shall stick it in my aloe vera plant's pot.

watched 4 youtube documentaries on:

~slavery and voodoo in haiti, didgeridoos

alaskan grizzly bears,
& nefertiti: history and hair

while painting this:

oh snowman,

they have extra skins like you.

                      

f r e e

g a z a

~ ~ ~
"You who are so liberal, so humane,
who take the love of culture to the point of
affectation, you pretend to forget that you have
colonies where massacres are committed in your name."
Jean-Paul Sartre

a warm day hiking the canyons with maggie.

unfortunately, it ended when i got heat stroke.

thank you for taking me to get rehydrated after

i threw up all over black-eyed susans. (sorry flowers).

after attending a culinary workshop demystifying

"exotic" cuisines of the world and using

old world peruvian techniques to

grow and cook food sustainably,

 i felt inclined to..make pasta from scratch: