SUMMERTIME

it's summertime and that means camping, surfing, being in the sun and being in the water. i am so grateful there's still some clean water in southern california. i just watched the documentaries last call at the oasis  and the redford center's watershed. amazing films about water, water ethics, the colorado river and how we're reaching a global crisis with water and it's useage. i am so shocked to learn how much we're polluting our rivers and oceans and how much water we use and waste everyday. so from now on: no more fracking! no more pesticides! no more watering our lawns! no more trash and plastic on the ground! no more bottled water! that's right, you heard me, no more bottled water. from now on it's filtered water from the tap(yes, the tap!) in a reuseable bottle.  here's what you can do . photos: my cannon 7d,  coastin and mollusk surf shop

I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART

korean artist jung lee.  wow. amazing.

SUNLIGHT OF THE SPIRIT

 

 

I awoke this morning in the gold light turning this way and that thinking for a moment it was one day like any other.  But the veil had gone from my darkened heart and I thought it must have been the quiet candlelight that filled my room, it must have been the first easy rhythm with which I breathed myself to sleep, it must have been the prayer I said speaking to the otherness of the night. 

And I thought this is the good day you could meet your love, this is the black day someone close to you could die. This is the day you realize how easily the thread is broken between this world and the next and I found myself sitting up in the quiet pathway of light, the tawny close grained cedar burning around me like fire and all the angels of this housely heaven ascending through the first roof of light the sun has made.

This is the bright home in which I live, this is where I ask  my friends to come, this is where I want to love all the things it has taken me so long to learn to love. This is the temple of my adult aloneness and I belong to that aloneness as I belong to my life. There is no house like the house of belonging.   

david whyte

photos: youth lagoon, my canon 7d

TIE DYE

i just tie dyed a pair of purple jeans that i bought at barney like 6 years ago. i ripped them up and cut the bottoms off, and then....in a fit of not liking what i'd done to the pair of jeans, i bleached and tie-dyed them. i'll post a photo when they're dry! it's so good to see this 60's style back in fashion in new, updated ways. very cool.
elle mcphearson
elin kling 
so much to smile about
marantphiles
fashion vibe

THE ASTONISHING LIGHT THAT IS YOU

it's been an exciting few days, many changes at work, in life, and of course with changes come new beginnings. i am walking and hiking quite a bit and it quiets my mind. i always have a repreive from the noise and find peace while putting one foot in front of the other. bodies in motion. saving my soul. thank you for checking into this humble, little blog and i leave you with this:  “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”  ~ Hafez   photos: elizabethkimberly designs, photos

ALL THAT GLITTERS...

                                                              another happy monday to you!

ACID MODERNISM

new york times style piece on doug aitken's venice, ca home. lovely isn't it? doug and his girlfriend gemma ponsa.