Ball State license plate, woohooooooo!
Alma mater love, alma mater pride!
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Monday, 9 March 2015
The Non-Facebook Post #12
I love Spring evenings! Like today's. Where the sun is low in the horizon and washing the landscape in a soft radiant orange. That great big ball of luminescence is visible through tree branches that are waiting to come alive, green.
You've written about this mellow golden-yellow twitlight countless times, and yet you feel you can write about it every time the world transforms into a swathe of sunset hues - dance in it, rejoice in the beauty enveloping you, get lost in your thoughts in the serene calmness that descends with the atmosphere that's set up and wish dream with the promise of a brighter season ahead.
The Non-Facebook Post #11
"Don't avoid the burn. Feel the burn." - my pilates instructor in exercise class this evening. That's true for life as well. Feel the burn, go through it, wait for the cold harsh winter to melt into a sunny promising spring.
The Non-Facebook Post #10
It's a brave new WARM world! And, I've stepped out, boldly once again, without at least 4 layers of my 7-layered winter clothing!
It's Spring!
It's Spring!
But here's trying to grasp at some more elusive thought threads as they flit through my mind and threaten to vanish like wisps of smoke dissolving into nothingness.
Experiencing seasons from inside of a car. Experiencing temporality through the lens of owning and driving a vehicle.
Last Spring brought me the liberating feeling of being able to walk out to the laundry room in my apartment complex without first armouring myself in winter gear. This Spring, it's liberating to not have my fingers freeze to numbness while I'm holding the gas nozzle and refuellling my car. Winter afternoons made for perfect driving visibility - no bright glare reflecting off of windscreens and asphalt, not so dark that headlights would not be able to handle. Spring days come with bright sun shining off of every surface it can, blinding you a bit as you try to drive in the warm glow.
Saturday, 7 March 2015
The Non-Facebook Post #9
The 'I' post.
I have emotional fortitude.
I have confidence in me and emotional fortitude.
I have things to do, places to go, dreams to achieve.
I have to be at the top of my game.
I have to be the smartest version of my pea-brain self.
I have miles to go before I sleep.
I will have my dreams.
The Non-Facebook Post #8
Yes, yes, yes!
I did it! I drove a co-passenger, for the first time - a milestone for how far I've come from being a scaredy-cat driver to now being confident enough to safely drive another human being!
And,
I also was able to accomplish the complex task of talking WHILE driving! And got complimented for it too! But now, I completely understand all the people who politely tried to excuse themselves from talking because they found it hard to both together and wanted to concentrate on driving. I find that it's a bit tougher to focus on what the other person is saying when there's a higher volume of traffic on the roads you're driving on. I also discovered that it's a lot easier to drive if you're the one doing the talking - makes focussing on both tasks easier (it makes you a feel a bit powerful too, for some reason, or the one in control, in the 'driver's seat').
Here's to learning, some more! Here's to growing, some more! Here's to becoming the best version of you!
I did it! I drove a co-passenger, for the first time - a milestone for how far I've come from being a scaredy-cat driver to now being confident enough to safely drive another human being!
And,
I also was able to accomplish the complex task of talking WHILE driving! And got complimented for it too! But now, I completely understand all the people who politely tried to excuse themselves from talking because they found it hard to both together and wanted to concentrate on driving. I find that it's a bit tougher to focus on what the other person is saying when there's a higher volume of traffic on the roads you're driving on. I also discovered that it's a lot easier to drive if you're the one doing the talking - makes focussing on both tasks easier (it makes you a feel a bit powerful too, for some reason, or the one in control, in the 'driver's seat').
Here's to learning, some more! Here's to growing, some more! Here's to becoming the best version of you!
The Non-Facebook Post #7
"So many times I've heard perfectly capable people say: "I don't really know what to do with my life. I'm not really good at anything."
Nobody's ever accomplished anything by doing what they're good at. Accomplishments come from doing what you're bad at-- over, and over, and over again.
Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York, June 29 2012.