2013

I have so much to write about.

Why haven't I been writing?

Ineedtowrite.

Welcome Home

Plane Flight Playlists:

I love making new playlists for when I take my next flight out.
Tomorrow I start my 23 hour journey home:
From Paris to Dublin.
Dublin to Chicago.
5 hour layover
Chicago to Sacramento.
I can't wait to see my father and mother at the doors of Sacramento Airport.
Tradition.
I love them so incredibly much.
Oh man, and my sisters...
My heart beats faster from excitement just writing it down.
I'm coming home for Christmas.



Starting off with a little something that goes like this:

Howl

"…make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty."

— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild 

Compliments.

I believe I am like most girls when I say that I do not take compliments well.

But last night a woman sat beside me whilst I was amongst a few strangers enjoying a glass-o-wine when she said, 

"I could see you are a girl who carries home wherever she goes."

and just like that, I'll never forget Nancy from Athens, Greece.

Thank you for such a beautiful statement and observation.

Matthew and the Atlas

Dear God, 
Don't Let This One Slip Away.

Sooner or Later.

My Favorite of Johnny Cash's tunes; Such a Legend.