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“You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.” ~Maya Angelou
today I have been remembering the places I have called “home”… so many wonderful memories, friendships, and emotions… time to revisit the past…
where it all began – jackson hole, wyoming :) this is a picture from our porch! unbelievable!!!
j hole
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paradise valley, az (sooo nostalgic for this home!)
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the chee! boulder, colorado
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grandview – boulder, colorado (miss this so badly!)
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nappy ness aka 177 bleecker, nyc
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sydney, australia
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sanborn – forever my home away from home :)
Top 2 underated things for me today are
1. apple’s photo booth (soo good) and
2. snail mail
is there anything better than snail mail? the answer is no… aside from my deep routed love for technology, no other form of communication gets me quite as excited as reicieving a letter or package… it is so personal, thoughtful and oh so classic ;D. I especially love when it comes in a nontraditional form (many thanks to ali, kate, and my mom for keeping my mailbox full)
here are some creative letters i have been meaning to post…
feeling a bit nostalgic -
speaking of lemons…here is a yummy cocktail recipe good for winter or summer that Lacey, Brady, & I experimented with:
1.5 oz Blueberry Flavored Vodka
3 Oz water (sparkling or still)
Juice from 1 lemon (option to add blueberries to a cocktail stirrer)
1 splenda or tsp agave honey
Ice
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
- Anais Nin
Sanborn White Water Rafting Trip near Mount Princeton, Colorado - above photo by me
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
ben and i took a road trip south to Kiama (the drive was on the coast the entire way!)… here are some of the highlights
road trip music from me to you…
click to enlarge… and notice the dead shark we saw in the back of someone’s truck! wtf isn’t that illegal?! Some other moments worth mentioning are: ben having to drive on the opposite side of the road in adverse conditions (very scary for everyone involved), our ghetto motel room (which for some reason cost as much as a 4 star hotel) the horse races we randomly arrived at…
oh yes – you may also notice that I look like a bum in all of these pictures… and that is because I was told we were going camping (which ended up not being on the agenda) :) hehe
Today, Shannon and I went to Cockatoo Island for a comedy festival. Aussie humor is very different than in the US or Britain. I can’t really describe it – obviously, they have their comedy has unique references and inside jokes… :) The coolest part of today was being able to understand the aussie context, which is only possible thanks to living here nearly five months. Definitely picked up some aussie stereotypes, that I hadn’t really thought anything of. Some jokes had me laughing uncontrollably and others left me feeling so awkward :/ but I guess that’s the beauty in Australian Humour
Cockatoo Island was an experience in itself – here is a bit from wiki
Cockatoo Island is the largest island in Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located at the junction of the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers, Cockatoo Island is a former imperial prison, industrial school, reformatory and gaol. It is also the site of one of Australia’s biggest shipyards during the twentieth century. The first of its two dry docks was built by convicts and was completed in 1857. The island’s maritime industrial activity ceased in 1992.
In late March 2005 the island was re-opened to the public for the ‘Cockatoo Island Festival’, after two and a half years of planning. The island is currently managed by the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust who are currently revitalising the island as a landmark harbour attraction, with commercial maritime activity operating alongside interpretation of the island’s heritage. Today Cockatoo Island retains many remnants of its past. Its prison buildings have been nominated for World Heritage listing, along with other convict sites around Australia. Large workshops, slipways, wharves, residences and other buildings retain the texture of the island’s industrial past.
^We saw Austen Tayshus – maybe it will give you a taste of the aussie humor??
^this one is from a youtube search on australian humor – seems about right… :)
^cockatoo island!
shannon holding on for dear life on the ferry
computer 2000 dollars
internet 50 dollars
candle 35 dollars (+ burn time)
midnight skype seance snapshots PRICELESS
and then the murderer came
never underestimate the power of technology
bomb.com
Nothing is simple and alone. The breathing mountains, the living stones, each blade of grass, the clouds, the rain, each star, the beasts, the birds, the invisible spirits of the air we are all one, indivisible. Nothing that any of us does but affects us all.
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