beep
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 | 9:04 pma watch chime every hour.
a reminder to live the life of my own choosing.
Also, to GET BACK TO WORK!
(or playing or eating or sleeping or whatever the next thing is.)
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Sleep
Saturday, September 17, 2011 | 1:57 amWent to a psychology of sleep class at UCB. It was really good.
Will go again.
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An image for patience.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 | 9:36 pm
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Perspective
Sunday, September 11, 2011 | 11:03 amI have gained a bit of perspective on my life from these realizations:
I have lived in my current home longer than any other since I was 12 (almost 5 years at Cakebread!)
I have been in school longer than ever before.
My longest relationship is over and has been over for just under a year.
!~~!~~!~~!
Before 2007 I was a very transient gal. I lived in all sorts of places and moved around within them. I think the time spent moving between mom’s house and dad’s house informed a pattern of movement and comfort in not having a completely solid home base.
Now that I’ve been living in the same place for awhile, I notice that my stuff has accumulated a lot. I’m a person that gets attached to objects. I think not moving has exacerbated this tendency of mine.
I feel also that with each move that I made I was able to transcend my previous self and transform into more of myself. Being in a new place with new people with a new role offers an incredible opportunity to present and manifest new parts of myself!
Those moves coincided with my being a young adult, so of course a lot of personal transformation and growth was happening in general. I think the travel contributed to that growth and offered new avenues of interaction.
As my life has continued onward, I have accumulated not just stuff, but thoughts, experiences, hopes, dreams, fears, etc, etc.. So much to hold in one person! My challenge now is to manage all that, to let it sink in and to just be with it, to be it. To carry on with lightness and dedication to what I value.
Question!
**How have you continued to transform as your life progresses?
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Gratitude for open communications
Sunday, September 11, 2011 | 10:50 amI am really glad that I was able to find a friend on FBchat. Finding the right mode of communication can make quite a difference.
I’ve been challenged by love the past year (and indeed before that too, but especially in recent memory).
I long to reach out and connect romantically. Yet, at this point in my life, it seems I find greater strength (confidence, peace, motivation, etc.) when I’m on my own. Ideally, romance and personal strength will match up one day.
At certain times I feel a strong pull from the external world to press on, at other times, my internal world drives me forward. The interplay between love and romance as an external point of reference and motivator and my own internal personal drive to manifest my dreams has been a challenge to recognize and balance.
I am grateful to be coming to understand these aspects of myself and my relationship with other people and the world better.
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Buster Keaton
Friday, September 9, 2011 | 10:02 pm
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Found this list of things I like in the archives:
Monday, September 5, 2011 | 10:35 amI like:
creativity, camping, music, learning, reading, dancing, the redwood forest, kissing, dressing up, games, traveling, circus, technology, bagels, the moon, colors in nature, writing, bicycling, dogs, and googly eyes.
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HI
Monday, September 5, 2011 | 10:24 amphotos to come.
words to be posted.
place of web expression to be cultivated.
sweet.
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(posted in Uncategorized | tagged goals, helloworld, intention)
prerequisites for a click.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 12:00 pmThe circumstances for change accumulate and then when all things are in place, a shift occurs. For me often with great serendipity and clicking into the pattern of my life that has been trying to emerge — it becomes clear in a way that seems entirely natural.
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Bicycle.
Sunday, August 1, 2010 | 8:11 pm
After my fall from stilts during the Museum Proper I took a hiatus from biking due to having a fairly bummed out knee(s). The time off from having two working legs and biking everywhere, really made me yearn for and appreciate the times when I ride my bicycle everyday.
After a few weeks I climbed back astride my bicycle and began riding again. More energized and stoked to go than before.
My new(ish) commute is awesome (go go summer school!). It’s a straight shot up Telegraph Ave. Gradual incline in the morning and a nice quick jaunt in the afternoon.
I got toe cages. Which have become vital to my increased feeling of in-the-groove with my bike. I’m looking at these Power Grip toe grabby things. I tried out Rubin’s Bike Friday today and it had Power Grips on the pedals. Pretty neat. Simple, does the job. Low profile. I’ve been pretty happy with my standard toe cages though so I’m in no hurry to switch ‘em out.
I am finding that I identify more as a bicyclist now than I have before. It is very pleasing to me to be able to get around most of the time by my own power. No money exchanged (except for food and I need to do that anyway. And of course, there is BART). Good for my body (as long as I don’t overdo it). Freedom to take the route I feel like taking. Also: there is usually bike parking at Berkeley Bowl.
On identifying:
It might also be that I’m identifying more as a bicyclist because I was given a bicyclists cap (see above) and it makes me very happy. But it makes me happy because it fits under my helmet which means I can continuously wear it instead of pulling my hat on and off every time I get ready to ride. Also, now people recognize me as someone who rides a bike. The way people treat someone because of how they perceive them can create a social environment that causes a reflection which shapes how those individuals see themselves (whoa words and ideas). Maybe I just feel bad ass in a little funny biking cap. 
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(posted in Bicycling, Blog | tagged bicycling, identity, injury, social, time-off)
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