How do we pay for things that don't have a price?
The beautiful things our eyes absorb every day...
With years, hours, minutes, seconds?
The only currency not coveted...
Taken only for granted,
spent carelessly....
time.

Summer is ending.
Flowers losing their petals with the cold.
Soon the trees will follow their ways.

Some Days

Some days go on and on
Others end before you know it.
With the mere blink of an eye,
Minutes and seconds cruise by your eyes,
Pouring out of thin air,
Raining out loud.
Where does this time go?
If only one could scoop it up,
And pour it into a cup for later.
And drink it up at one's own desire...

Lack of Words, Explosion of Emotion

Well, more than a month has passed since I have updated this. That all changes today. Life gets busy, and time seems to slip through the cracks of obligation. I'll start this off with some photos from a Fogggggy day.

Bread and Fruits

Well, I made a loaf of bread today from scratch: Amish Sweet Bread. I didnt have loaf pans, but i used Pyrex bowls and it seemed to work out pretty good. The centers were a touch doughy, but totally delicious... one more thing off my list...
















































I then proceeded to try a new fruit: Red Pummelo


I found it at Trader Joes.

It is like a cross between an orange and a grapefruit. Turns out it is the largest citrus fruit. The rind is VERY spongy and the inside is messy and difficult to eat, but delicious....

Happiness

"Make yourself so happy that when others look at you they become happy too."


-quote from Yogi Tea

Today I began to cross some things off my list. 3 out of 101 things have been completed and many more in progress of happening. :) It's crazy to think that i have to get through 98 more things, but I am still confident that I can do it.

Groundhog Day

Lovely Lake Michigan <3

I just discovered today that it doesnt even matter what type of mood the groundhog is in or what type of weather it is, because the decision of shadow seeing or not is determined by some old guys 2 weeks previous to the fact. and once again... 6 more weeks of winter. Though, with the beautiful weather today, i wouldnt be surprised if those guys were wrong.

Tea Wisdom: The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. -Matthew Arnold

Sometimes the creepy face of the past comes to haunt you...
When this happens,
Take a breath.
Who has breathed that air before you?
Who has stared with blaring eyes into the spot now shared in that mirror?

Just a guest on the wall,
The mirror has been given eyes.
Witnesses of the past,
Burned in the glass.

Turn on the light, and forget your worries.
Erase the circles that haunt you.

Milwaukee Art Museum

The Infinity Room

On a chilly day, dry your socks on the radiator...

Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters

You cool your bedwarm hands down
On the broken radiator
When you lay them freezing on me
I mumble can you wake me later
But I don't really want you to stop
And you know it so it doesn't stop you
You run your hands from my neck
To my chest

Crack the shutters open wide
I want to bathe you in the light of day
And just watch you as the rays
Tangle around your face and body
I could sit here for hours
Finding new ways to be awed each minute
'Cause the daylight seems to want you
Just as much as I want you

Its been minutes Its been days,
I remember all I will remember
Happy lost in your hair
And the cold side of the pillow
Your hills and valleys
Are mapped by my intrepid fingers
And in a naked slumber I dream all this again

And so it begins.....

And so it begins on this cold January.
The quest to accomplish simple yet extraordinary things.
And the countdown begins.
1001 days to go...