k.d. sweetpea
hell yes.
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things i like, together
reading magazines & fancy hotels
brunches (with avocados) & coffee shop talks
wearing and awesome outfit & short, red nails
warm, white, sandy beaches & margaritas (okay, probably only ONE margarita)
appetizers for lunch & hot tubs
going to the movies & frozen yogurt
talks with friends & big, inspirational ideas
morning walks & my dog
movies on instant watch & my speakers
peanut butter & nutella
vacations & spontaneity
ambitions & patience
coffee & croissants
learning new things & reflection
journals & pens
alki beach & walking with my mom
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to fit in the all-important combo of newspaper/coffee/notebook (with a water view) more often.
to draw and to write each day anew.
to publish.
to practice.
to soak up as much sunshine as possible.
to make new friends, and honor all my dear, sweet friends.
to travel, freely.
to give, generously.
to put my best foot forward.
to dance.
to jump.
to stretch.
to work hard.
to rest well.
to SAVOR. and to PAY ATTENTION.
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have you heard about life listing? The idea is simple, and I’ve found myself working on variations of it for years. One line after another, goal after dream after brilliant idea - until the paper is full and so are your head and heart. I’ve read a few other blogs that are big into having “a list” - one hundred lines, set. can be anything, everything, reach for the stars sort of stuff, things you’ve been putting off for years, that thing you keep telling yourself you couldn’t ever actually do. I like the idea of 100, and though I haven’t created my entire list yet, I’ve definitely added a few bullet points in the last few weeks - here’s an installment:
1) Live on a houseboat.
2) cook a fabulous meal for 10+. Don’t forget dessert.
3) Write a book. and then another.
4) Live in Sausalito.
5) Buy a beach house, decorate to the extreme.
6) illustrate a children’s book.
7) build a treehouse.
8) go to paris.
9) run a hotel. live in the penthouse.
10) direct a summer camp.
11) see SNL - live.
12) sail across an ocean.
13) skinny dipping (warm water).
that’s enough for now. xoxo
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This is David and I, from our kayaking co-leader days this summer. On this day we were wrapping up “flip tests” for a few of our campers that still needed to pass this daunting task (involving submerging themselves in the chilly water and then re-entering their kayak, right side up). Those kids succeeded, and to share that success with them has been one of the highlights of my life.
Summer 2011 was miraculous in so many ways, often thanks to David. This photo is featured in the YMCA’s fundraising campaign, and it’s exciting and gratifying to see ourselves as part of this effort to send more kids to camp. I love life.
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Quote reblogged from NPR Fresh AirNobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.Ira Glass (via nefffy)
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I’VE ALWAYS BELIEVED ONE COULD LIVE MANY LIVES THROUGH THE WAY WE DRESS AND THE PLACES WE TRAVEL TO, EVEN IF JUST IN OUR IMAGINATION. THE WORLD IS OPEN TO US, AND EACH DAY IS AN OCCASION TO REINVENT OURSELVES.RALPH LAUREN (via margaretdijulio)
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Quote reblogged from kant help meBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. Resolve to be always beginning—to be a beginner!
