Seaside

Just like that one song from ‘The Kooks’, I feel a craving for the ocean again. It wasn’t that long ago that I went to Pt. Reyes but I didn’t really get up close and personal with the sand or the water. There is something memorable and refreshing, if not sometimes harsh or powerful, about the ocean’s salty spray, pounding waves and the wet sand one can dig their toes into as they please. There is a kind of vitality and excitement as land junctures with water, waves meet flying birds, clouds and escaping rays of sun, depending on the day, and the hum of the ocean lingers. My favorite thing to do is to lay down and drift off to the sound of it all. It is calming and I do miss it.

Dive into life

free falling, originally uploaded by jaki good.

Don’t know why but I’m on a ‘black and white’ kick:

I guess if life were truly ‘black and white’ then things would be pretty boring. I’m learning what it means to have more faith, engage in less fear, flex more courage, call on more wisdom and truly trust one’s mind and heart.

Public health up close and personal

Credit: Where There’s Smoke… (Pentagram)

This is definitely a public health issue (think of the big picture) and one that has been cleverly illustrated here. I’m sure it’s been done already (in imagination) but I think they should also provide sobering illustrations in similar fashion for all the junk food the world (and especially the US) consumes.

I went to the supermarket today and cringed. Whoever remarked that Americans are “overfed but undernourished” is SO right. There is a nutrition crisis in this country that comes from way too many calories and empty foods. I don’t profess to have all the answers and lest I sound like some know-it-all let me tell you that I am no less guilty than any other for putting junk into my body. And for all the young folks out there: beware, for it will all catch up with you soon enough-later yes, but soon enough for sure.

I’m reeling from the effects of poor choices in years earlier and without a doubt, no one wants to be left feeling less than their usual 100%. It makes life heavy, more difficult and less hopeful. What I realize most is that health is wealth. You take care of your body, your body takes care of you. This topic means a lot to me because it really does take on personal meaning. No disrespect intended but I don’t want to turn into a humoungous, gelatinous collage of bones and organs that continuously suffers from bouts of depression and wonders the heck why. That said, it’s easier said than done but man, it is so worth it. Feeling your very best and thinking clearly is so liberating. I express this from one human being to another… truly.

Life isn’t black and white

walking in orange, originally uploaded by marin.tomic (back home).

… or black and orange. But this pic is really cool so there ya go.

I need to walk with a friend right now. Literally, figuratively, whatever. Not to say that I normally don’t but I want to feel it right this very second. It’s one of those feelings where at the end of a very long work day you’re ready for some genuine human interaction, the kind that is salve to the soul. Comfort. Ease. Hope. Mellowness. Enough repair or energy to head forth into work again the very next day.

Ahhh, Mondays…

Ten months babe!

ten, originally uploaded by xtfer.

10 months working and living in this new experience of a place. The time has flown, the time has slowed, but time continues to move. Memories of when I first started out are coming back as the same summer heat has made its entrance again. I’m just taking things one step at a time.