Monday, August 27, 2007

Truth: I love boring bands

These are my most recent favorites: Seabear
and Horse Feathers soooooooo good.

WOWZERS!

Being a teacher feels like this:
CRAZY!!!

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Cryptonics

It seems there are some parts of me, my heart especially, that long for closure. They want to know that we have reached the end of the story. If there is no explicit "The End" my heart starts to play tricks on my mind. So what do I do? Is it better to let life run its course without ever knowing what could have happened or if you made the right choice? or lay your pondering heart on the table to hear the cold hard truth itself? Why do we always want closure? Why do we always want to know for sure, even though that knowledge throws away all hope and day-dreams. Do we really need that?

Sometimes I think that moving or running away is "The End" but I have been proved wrong. Its too bad it can't be that easy. So, I have recently come to the conclusion that I will not listen to my heart and let it tell me what to do. I don't think we always need closure, especially when our minds already have the answer.

I guess the hardest part is when our minds have to tell our hearts the truth. They just don't know how to break it to them. It seems mostly that my heart doesn't want to listen no matter how many times I tell it, "Listen up little heart, I know you feel that way, but this is the way it is..."
Thats just the way it is.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

David has been helping me learn French:

I signed up for a French class at the community college. It was a toss up between that and graphic design. They were offering a free class to new students and French fit my schedule. Classes start in just one week and I am sooooo excited to learn French. Then next semester maybe I will take some classes in illustrator. Je suis très heureuse

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

I love to swim/bike/run, so why not???

CHECK THIS OUT. SOoOoOoo Great!.
Roque and I are signing up. Does anyone else want to be a triathlete?? Sign up!

Sunday, August 05, 2007

favorite line:

love finds losers too. and marionettes.

Saturday, August 04, 2007

I put myself to thinking...

being part of a community is really great. There is part of me that wants to go out and do amazing things, learning and traveling. I would love to experience different cultures first hand, struggle and serve. But most of me, right now, just wants to settle down in a house and get to know my neighbors, see them on bike rides and talk to them about the plants in their front yard.
I am moving this week to the guest house in my parents back yard. It is so great. I will have a big art studio upstairs in the loft with wood floors, a couch, a big table and a sink. I bought an easel last week and have been painting/collaging a lot lately.
So, for a while I reside in Nevada. I belong to the community here in Las Vegas. Come visit me if you want. I have two big couches and 2 queen beds for the sleeping.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

so many things bottled up can make you a "post"oholic.

I want this card game. its like 'magic' magic. And lately, I love magic, the science, not the card game. But this video helps me see that I might like magic, the card game too.
wait, is magic a science???

this is true. I still love them and heres how it started...


This goes back to when I started to play the guitar. My sister came home from college after her first or second year there. We rode in the 12 passenger van to pick her up. She had her guitar and taught me some songs as we rode. First song I ever learned: "Norwegian Wood" by the Beatles. She copied some of her music for me and soon I was playing "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkel, "Take me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver and "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor. I started taking guitar lessons when I was 13. I had this amazing teacher, whose background was in classical guitar, so we sat with one foot on a stool and the guitar at a sharp angle dipping down between our knees. She would give me songs with the chords written in roman numerals so I could transpose them to any key, plus I practiced from a book of classical pieces where I learned all the notes on the guitar.
She would let me ask her any guitar questions I had and she would figure out songs for me. She even made me a mix tape of Cat Stevens and Simon and Garfunkel. Then she taught me all those songs. She had great arrangements of "Homeward Bound" "April Come She Will" and "Scarborough Fair"
My senior year in highschool, for my AP English class, I wrote a research paper about the cleansing effects of rain, as demonstrated through literature. I read and analyzed hundreds of poems and prose about spring and rain. We had to record a cassette tape where we talked about the views we had expressed and I chose to start the tape with "Kathy's Song." This song, and "America" are my favorites, but I can't forget "Song For The Asking" or "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright" or "The 59th Street Bridge Song," "Mrs. Robinson," "Bookends" etc!!! I love love love Simon and Garfunkel. Don't you??
The End.