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Damian Marley - Jamrock

Some K1000 pictures.

CVS

Salvation Army

South Mountain

Nutley

Nutley (such a nice bike ride through that park, you should go)

Brookdale Park, soccer field, Balloon Release Project

Fabric store in Tucson

Saguaro National Park

I'm in my new place and I love it very much. I'll try to put up a picture so that I can look back on it when I'm 75 and don't remember anything. Because the internet will always be around.

O.K. Go - Get Over It

Craig Shoemaker - The Lovemaster

you go to school with me you'll graduate magna cum laude

Kut - Whose Panties

Today is full of packing and anticipating Friday's arrival. I for sure have on interview for an assistant job and hopefully I'll have another one after then too. I'm moving into...

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I've been pretty obsessed with this amazingly beautiful and talented lady for quite some time now, maybe 3 months so far. If you don't know, it's Hilarie Burton. Anyway, once my hair gets maybe an inch longer, I plan on getting a loose perm to resemble this. I know it's corny, but I can't go to a hair salon without bringing a picture. So if you hate the idea, say something to stop me!

Mozella - Can't Stop

I've been listening to this chick a bunch lately. You should too.

Her voice is so deep and rich and mysterious and passionate.

Joshua Radin - The Bring Me To You

I wrote this February 13, 2006 and I am incredibly in love with it all over again:

i wish i was a piece of paper on the floor. so someone could pickmeup&crumplemeup into a ball. squeeze it tight. so i could be put into the smallest form. i would be the most fragile. but i would be full of sharp edges. the kind that look harmless but can cut you whenever i damn well please. i'd be a tiny ball & i wouldn't be able to move. suppose i did. i'd be torn. but your grasp would keep in place. i want to see everything from the perspective from inside your palm. i want to be minute. i just want to be carried from off the floor. and if i was colorful, the eyes would see me. but suppose i was a plain piece of paper. white and flawless, but then again boring. i wouldn't mind being thrown into the garbage. so more things could be thrown on top of me. and then i'd be surrounded by my kind and then eventually wrapped&tied. but no one would talk and no one would care&thats how it would go for centuries on end. there would be no hate or jealousy. because we're all the same tiny forms of crumpled paper just waiting in a bucket for someone to pickusup&showustheworld. &maybe they'd see our beauty in just being natural. or maybe they'd see our honesty &turn us into something exquisite. they'd draw on us or paint on us. whichever they prefer. and we'd never lie to their face. we'd just be there for their enjoyment & we'd be content with that. oh, to live the life of white trash.

LL Cool J - Going Back To Cali

So last night I finished reading The Shack by WM. Paul Young (aka "Willie"). My mom suggested it to me and I liked the storyline and the message, but in the foreword he says it is actually based on a true story about his friend, Mack, and it's his friend's story, just told my Willie. I guess you would have to read it to see why it's uncomfortable to know that it's based on someone's experience (if that actually is true). A part of me really wants to believe that there is a God and he/she does work in mysterious ways, all of them being good, but it's hard to grasp. What I loved about it was it totally criticized the things about religion that are man-made and institutionalized. I guess it helped me answer questions of my own about why things turn out the way the do and if there really is a God, why is there so much evil, etc. etc. Anyway, I suggest reading it so you can decide for yourself.

Some great quotes from this book:
"There is something joyful about storms that interrupt routine. Snow or freezing rain suddenly releases you from expectations, performance demands, and the tyranny of appointments and schedules. And unlike illness, it is largely a corporate rather than individual experience. One can almost hear a unified sigh rise from the nearby city and surrounding countryside where Nature has intervened to give respite to the weary humans slogging it out within her purview. All those affected this way are unified by a mutual excuse, and the heart is suddenly and unexpectedly a little giddy. There will be no apologies needed for not showing up to some commitment or other. Everyone understands and shares in this singular jurisdiction, and the sudden alleviation of the pressure to produce makes the heart merry."

Some great quotes put into the book, written by others:
"The soul is healed by being with children." - Fyodor Dostoyesky
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"God is a verb." - Buckminister Fuller
"You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you." - Frederick Buechner

I am especially fond of you.