Day 280 - 292: End of an era

Day 280 - Wednesday, March 21

"Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness."
— Leo Tolstoy

Day 281 - 291: Thursday, March 22 - Saturday, March 31, 2012
Lots of things to be grateful for:

a great new shade of nail polish

breakfast burritos from Fred62

hints of spring, even in Los Angeles

stand-up paddleboarding!

fresh vegetables from the farmer's market

my backyard

the shape of eucalyptus trees

homemade ginger sweet-potato cheesecake

and street murals...beauty is everywhere you look. Just look for it.

Day 292 - Sunday, April 1, 2012



Today is my last day of being 29 years old. The last day in my 20s! So grateful to spend it outside, hiking at Will Rogers State Park with my friend Shane, and having brunch at M Street Kitchen including a delicious Chocolate Chip Fleur de Sel cookie...

Day 279 - Shaking the devil off your back

So grateful for my friend Laura Gonzalez. Nothing like a good long chat when you're with a soulmate and sharing the devils on your back, no judgment, just loving each other and easing the load by sharing it.

Day 272 - 278

Monday, March 12 - Day 272
Today I had a chiro appt so I worked from home. I'm grateful for working from home, but I'm also grateful to Emile for gifting me the appointment and for the sense of straightness and balance in my spine!

Tuesday, March 13 - Day 273
I appreciate having my own space. So much.

Wednesday, March 14 - Day 274
I'm grateful for the exquisite goat dinner tonight with Vernon and Ashley!

Thursday, March 15 - Day 275
Tonight while tutoring I realized how profoundly lucky I am to have had the education I have. I've realized this before - it's not the first time, of course, but it just really hit me tonight. I'm so grateful for my literacy.

Friday, March 16 - Day 276
Grateful for Fridays. Always. Trite but true!

Saturday, March 17 - Day 277
Sometimes a lazy day in is the best medicine!

Sunday, March 18 - Day 278




I went for a solo hike in Topanga Canyon today. I did about 8 miles. It was a really gorgeous sunny day - but chilly and windy.



Then I came home and turned some overripe fruit into a tart!

Day 266 - 271: Life begets life

Tuesday, March 6 - Day 266
"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one become rich."
— Sarah Bernhardt
This week was about living life out, spending it, enjoying it in the sunshine, loving it, leaving nothing on the table.

Wednesday, March 7 - Day 267

This evening, I saw this sticker on a lightpole: "Happy by choice." I thought it was lovely, and true. I am happy by choice, regardless of circumstances.

Thursday, March 8 - Day 268
Bike riding in the sunshine to Ballona Creek at Playa del Rey! What a delightful simple pleasure, the sun and salt on your skin...



Friday, March 9 - Day 269
Today I went hiking in Azusa, looking for the Bridge to Nowhere. Didn't find it - but it was lovely looking for it, and in the process saw a bobcat and some bighorn sheep.



Saturday, March 10 - Day 270

The LACMA Rock has arrived! How lovely! I also got into the LACMA exhibition on surrealism and feminist artists for free, which was pretty sweet.

Sunday, March 11 - Day 271

Seeing the ocean is always a good thing.

Day 265: Crazy, diverse, unimaginable, specific life

I am so grateful that life is so unexpected and that there is always more to explore and when you go out to explore it, you find things you'd never have imagined and they are so beautiful in their unique specificity.

Here are some of the beautiful crazy things I came across today.
An abandoned building in Bulgaria.

Via Human Planet's Timothy Allen.


This story about Queens handball players' ingenuity with their cold handballs and a pot of boiling water.

The Levitated Mass is on the move!

My friend Amelia's photo from her Tumblr of Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.


This is March 5, 2012. Oh how grateful I am for this day, in its specificity, its oddity and its precious particularity.

Day 261-264: Every day in CA is a good day

Day 261 - Thursday, March 1
I started biking to work this week. So grateful to work from home today. Still getting used to 15 miles a day...

Day 262 - Friday, March 2

My beans and carrots are growing!

Day 263- Saturday, March 3

Every day in California is a good day.

Day 264 - Sunday, March 4
6.5 miles of hiking in Griffith Park on a gorgeous clear day!

Day 260: Leap Day!

Biking to work - day 2! I've started to pay more attention to my commute - I see things more, I pay more attention to what I'm passing, and I feel the weather more. I feel so much more aware, and I'm grateful to have this time to live in California.