December 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
April 2011
2 posts
“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”
- St. Catherine...”
– (via tiffanydavis23)
“All your mountains turn to rocks
All your oceans turn to drops
They are...”
– Brandi Carlile, “Pride and Joy”
February 2011
4 posts
I pictured a rainbow You held in your hands I had flashes But you saw then plan I wondered out in the world for years While you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon You were there at the turnstiles With the wind at your heels You stretched for the stars And you know how it feels To reach too high Too far Too soon You saw the whole of the moon … I spoke...
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself....”
– - The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
I’m going to read this book for this quote alone.
Why No One Writes Travel Articles about the Back...
…Because they’re terribly boring, that’s why.
And, while I didn’t find much interesting on my drive down 129 today, I did find the time to think. My day started off unconventionally when the 12v-cigarette-lighter-plugin-thing (I am the daughter of a tire emperor, I should know what that’s called) stopped working. More accurately: I plugged too much in at once and...
“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
– E. E. e.e. Cummings (via catherineyi, quote-book)
January 2011
3 posts
“You’re the echoes of my everything,
You’re the emptiness the whole...”
– -motion city soundtrack, “hold me down”
this used to be my favorite song in the world. i forgot how emo i used to be, but i kind of still love it.
After just a few days of working a 9-5 job planning people’s vacations, I realize why people want to take vacations from their jobs. Ironic?
I love it, though. Up until this point, I’ve been doing the travel consulting on the side from my apartment in Athens. Now I’m in the office pretty much full time. Since it’s the beginning of the season, this job has turned out to be...
“like a tree that falls alone
in the woods without a sound
i can’t be...”
– the ghost of a saber tooth tiger
December 2010
4 posts
My Brand New Travel Site! →
“O come, O come Emmanuel
And ransom captive hearts that fell
Bring peace on...”
“hurt is old news, why would you shed new tears”
– -diddy dirty money, “i hate that you love me”
i can’t believe i’m quoting a diddy song, but i really like the new album.
“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because...”
– Nicole Krauss (via loveyourchaos)
November 2010
3 posts
Time Flies When Time is Flying
Good-ness. Remember how I was so set on my “senior semester bucket list” and how I wanted to make the most of every moment? Did I write that in August and now it’s really the end of November? I can’t believe how fast the fall semester has gone by. I’ve seen a few changes since then: namely, this is not my last semester - I need one more credit to graduate....
And there will come a time, you’ll see, with no more tears. And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears. Get over your hill and see what you find there, With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair. And now I cling to what I knew I saw exactly what was true But oh no more. That’s why I hold, That’s why I hold with all I have. That’s why I hold. …...
“I’d just live. Like it meant something.”
– It’s Kind of a Funny Story
October 2010
1 post
i heart sufjan stevens.
It’s different now I think I wasn’t older yet I wasn’t wise, I guess Somewhere I lost whatever else I had I wasn’t over you I see it run inside itself And then I called you out I’m not much older than I was I’m feeling so much righter now And then I woke myself, confused Your dress comes down To you, don’t get it wrong, don’t get excited I wanted so...
September 2010
2 posts
theme song
officially obsessed with ida maria’s album “fortress ‘round my heart”… and with the following lyric:
I’m the queen of the world I bump into things I spin around in circles And I’m singing Why can’t I stay like this Dear God Let me be young Let me stay please Let me stay like this
“Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and...”
– my favorite lines from T.S. Eliot’s ”The Wasteland”
August 2010
3 posts
Bucket List
My final semester at Georgia is upon me, and, with my decision to graduate early, it’s happening much faster than I anticipated. With that being said, I’ve decided to make an effort to squeeze every opportunity out of my college experience. I wish to, as Thoreau is so often quoted, “live deliberately.” I’m not going to write down my last semester bucket list, but I...
“Man finds himself on the earth whether he likes it or not, with nowhere else to...”
– William Carlos Williams
“If you’re loved by someone you’re never rejected;
Decide what to be and go be...”
– “head full of doubt road full of promise,” the avett brothers
July 2010
4 posts
I watched you run To catch a trace of you I fall...
in transit: my travel blog →
One week from today, I’ll be approaching my arrival to the Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Rome, Italy - it’s so close! Ever since that fateful Venice trip, I’ve longed to go back to Italy to experience the country with a decent hotel room to return to, and not a 48-hour sleepless experience across the country and back. I couldn’t have asked for anything better - we’ll...
June 2010
5 posts
this changes everything.
Do you ever have that moment where you have your life semi-mapped out, but the one thing you absolutely refused to do suddenly makes a ton more sense than any other scenario?
Well, regardless on whether the above statement makes any sense, that happened to me yesterday morning. I received a job offer that has taken me two days to process and will take approximately one year to dwell upon...
“Nobody decides her whole life in a single moment. But you can decide what you...”
– Elizabeth Bard
May 2010
8 posts
“All of the questions
that are spinning in my head
have one answer: You.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that – try as...”
– “The Geography of Bliss”, Eric Weiner
“The terribly inconvenient fact is that, without you around, everything slides...”
– Nick Hornby (via thechocolatebrigade) (via catherineyi)
un an plus tard (one year later)
I’ve been seeing all of the Facebook statuses from the 2010 cinephiles of UGA’s Cannes Film Festival study abroad and realized… it’s been one year. One year since I started this blog. One year since my life took a turn for the worse, hit rock bottom in Venice, and then returned to a state of unknowing in Georgia. One year since the tears and laughter and insanity that was...
“Out of the doubt that fills my mind
I somehow find
You and I collide”
– howie day “collide”
“Where you invest your love, you invest your life.”
– Mumford and Sons “Awake My Soul”
“Love: it will not betray you
Dismay or enslave you -
It will set you free,
Be...”
– Mumford and Sons “Sigh No More”
April 2010
3 posts
“I can lie to you all my days, But you’re the one, you’re the one
And I’m a fool...”
– excerpts from Rosi Golan’s “Come Around”
hatchling.
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
I’m home for the weekend, where I’ve been instructed to clean out my closet for our...
March 2010
8 posts
“The love in my heart
and the joy inside my eyes,
Entirely yours.
You are my...”
– Daily Haikus on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
Coming Home: Or, What The Inside of the US Customs...
WRITTEN ON TUESDAY
Now, when I wrote on Monday night, I was a bit tired and not able to describe the dining in the tower experience to the level that it was. While at the dinner - which was elaborate, by the way: four courses of heavenly beef, seafood, lamb, and, of course, chocolate - I took the time to look around the room, live within that one moment. It’s incredible, this job, how it...
VIPs. St. Lucia Day 4
Have you ever wondered what’s inside this tower?
Get to the end of this blog post and I’ll tell you.
First let’s review the storms of today. I mean that literally.
I mentioned in my previous blog that St. Lucia has been going through a drought - they haven’t seen heavy rain in about 3 months. That just means that you need the right unlucky people to visit your island, and we are those...
St. Lucia - My Wedding Day - Day 3
You should know this about me: I have never, ever been that ready-to-get-married-girl - you know, the one who has had her wedding planned from age eleven and a half, knows everything except for the groom staring back at her? Not me. I am not that girl.
I’ve recently been the girl who has her dream kitchen planned a solid three years before it’s a possibility. I want an elegant, fully...
St. Lucia? More like St. LOTS OF STUFF TO DO...
Sorry for the title. It’s late.
I’m glad I enjoy rollercoasters, because our transfer today was something akin to being on the Batman for four hours.
We started off at 9:15 this morning, a little bit later than anticipated as we changed hotels last minute and the message was miscommunicated (in other words, our driver, Randal, was waiting at the other hotel about 25 minutes away until we...
St. Lucia? More like St. Luscious. Day 1
Before I even begin to tell the story of my day, I want you to see exactly where I’m writing from:
Breathtaking, isn’t it?
This island is beautiful, but let’s backtrack to 6:00 AM, where I wake up at the Renaissance Concourse in Atlanta, get ready dressed and head down to the Club Room for breakfast. The hotel is a nice place for my one night stay in the ATL, although I got pretty spoiled...