Desiderata

Just stumbled upon Liz Gilbert's recent post about travel. I'm re-posting it here as a reminder to myself that even though I'm EXHAUSTED, poor and unsettled: it's WORTH IT. ______________________________________________ QUESTION OF THE DAY: Why do we travel? Dear Ones - This is what jet-lag looks like on me, at 3am. This is what my poor innocent bathroom mirror had to look at this morning, in the cruel, cruel pre-dawn hours. Niiiiiiiiiccccceeeee. I just got home from a three-week trip to Greece and Turkey, and at 3:00 this morning, jet-lagged and ragged as all hell, I pondered once more (under the harsh bathroom lights) this old question: WHY DO WE TRAVEL? Because let's be honest, you guys. Traveling is expensive, inconvenient, tiring, time-consuming and sometimes — like all interesting things (sex and creativity, for instance) — it's even boring. You don't speak the language, you don't recognize the food, the toilets are co...

"A smile is the cheapest way to look cute." -some random yoga teacher I had once "You need to understand that it is okay that you are still learning.  Don't pretend to yourself or others that you know everything or that you don't have room to grow.  I don't think thats what confidence is really.  You gotta be willing to make mistakes and then acknowledge them in the open and learn from them.  If you hold yourself in such high regard that your world crumbles at the slightest slip-up then you might be bullshitting yourself." - my wise beyond his years boyfriend This horse and this truth .

I haven't felt like writing very much lately. I don't really know why. I know there are things I'd like to write down. Thoughts about the day. Thoughts about life. But I haven't felt the urge to put pen to paper, so to speak. Alas, here I am, trying to write something that means something and I'm coming up roses. Where does that phrase come from? I'll look it up. Haha, it means something completely different than what I thought! For some reason I thought it meant that I'm coming up empty handed (which makes no sense). It really means that "everything is really just excellent." So maybe that's where I'll leave this ridiculous post. Everything's coming up roses.

Just took one of those silly "What Game of Thrones character are you?" quizzes. I got Tyrion. My day is made. In his honor, here's a few of my favorite Tyrion quotes: “My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.”  “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”  “Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.”  “…When you’ve know me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies. Lord Petyr…”  "I much like my head. I don't want to see it removed just yet."  "I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities."