Song of the Week: Learning to Fly

It's Sunday afternoon.  

I just filed my taxes and feel like a huge weight has been lifted.  

The air is finally warm enough to open the windows and let the light shine in, though I also have my space heater on because my darn feet get so cold.  

I have been slowly sipping coffee from Pyrex for the last four hours and my neighbors are mowing their lawn.  

The smell of gasoline and grass spill in with the breeze.  There is something about this, as opposed to my favorite music blasting, that is so comforting and grounding.  

It's perfect.

I watched Eat Pray Love again last night, because I am a sucker for anything involving personal transformation and travel, I happen like Julia Roberts and James Franco, and let's face it-Javier Bardem is just plain dreamy.  I've seen this movie a few times now and it always touches on my emotions in different ways.  This time it was the fear, apathy and internal struggle that got to me the most, and I didn't cry once until she gets on that boat at the end.  

If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you. 

-Elizabeth Gilbert

Life can be such a tightrope walk sometimes.  Maybe all the time if we're brave enough.  I guess the question is, are we waiting and hoping to get to the other side, do we give up because we don't know what else to do, or do we intentionally dive head first and trust that our wisdom will catch us?  I guess therein lies our song of the week :)

Take your pick:

A soul in tension -- that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try. . .

Peace
Love
Cheesy blog posts 

San Francisco dreaming

It is decidedly so: I am (finally) moving to San Francisco next summer and I simply cannot wait!!!  I don't know of too many things I dream about more than this, so at 3AM last night I decided it was time I got artsy about it.  I'll be selling prints of these + more, soon!