today felt like summer, fall and winter

all at the same time.

j.i.g.g.l.y

"I used to be a preschool teacher,
but I got fired."

“What happened?”
“Well, [....]"

i love when light floods this place and the beams
blind you in a warm, familiar "welcome back" way.

"Why are we designed to see the world as

supremely beautiful just as we’re about to be snuffed?

Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth

bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?”
― M. Atwood, The Year of the Flood

(I really like margaret atwood;
her writing always speaks to me
and there is this oozing satisfaction
to the poetry of her prose)

hip hip hooray for 2015

& cheers to the 10th running year of this blog!

to whomever is reading this:

thank you for looking at my virtually documented
thoughts and i'm sending you some positive vibes~ ~
for an incredibly happy, productive & meaningful new year.

//do something that excites/scares/inspires you//

onwards!

last day of 2014!

some highlights of this year:

~ lived, taught, learned in Seattle

~ ate gelato in Florence

~ taught kindergartners to sew, write about social
change & scientific information about sea stars

~ rowed a boat in Lake Washington

~ snorkeled with tropical fish in Hanauma Bay

~ got lost in Venice

~ completed and passed edTPA
~ lounged in Parisian parks

~ explored Casa Batllo in Barcelona

~ watched an Athenian sunset on Areopagus Hill

~ hiked up a glacier on Mount Rainier
~ hiked from Fira to Oia along the Aegean sea

~ wandered around Rome & ended up at Trajan's Column

~ ate a beavertail in Canada

~ won $13 while gambling in Las Vegas

~ river-hiked The Narrows in Utah and revisited
the Grand Canyon

~ dug for clams and oysters in the Olympic Peninsula

!i am excited for 2015!

the winds are a howlin'

this is the cutest thing

i have ever seen:

mini gingerbread houses

Ἄρειος Πάγος

 my head is blocking most of it,

but there is the Parthenon too :P

winter barbeques

the perks of having chef friends

~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~

picnic in a cave!

with "avocado fingers"

mops is now inseparable from his flannel blanket.

~florence city wall~

attempting to do a self-photoshoot by the Aegean sea

while walking from Fira to Oia.

to the sea!

"Looting is wrong" say citizens living

on stolen land, built by stolen labour,

powered by stolen resources from poor countries."

sometimes, we watch demon baby videos,

discuss race + racism,

wrap oblong presents until midnight,
cook amazing food, admire hauntingly misty tall
dark mountains on the toll road,

and make DIY ugly christmas sweaters.

bumped into a fellow husky

stranger at the mall today :)

go dawgs~