Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe.

Happy people live in a happy world, sad people live in a sad world.  I believe everyone you meet is a reflection of yourself.   We make choices every moment.  Our consciousness creates a thought and sends brain signals to our mouth and body and we make a choice.  We choose what to think, what to say, and how to move our bodies through time. I remember first moving to my apartment in Boulder, Colorado.  I was so excited to be in a new place.  I had earned two jobs within a week of moving there, and after leaving a depression and dead ends in Portland, I was so excited for this fresh start. There were these two women who worked the front desk of our apartment complex and I saw them regularly whether getting quarters for laundry or asking questions about rent.  I made jewelry in my apartment and one of the ladies asked if I could make some earrings out of shark teeth she got in Hawaii.  She offered me three extra teeth to keep for mys...

Hikes in the Gorge with my dad are one of my earliest and most vibrant memories.  I think spending time in nature, virtually untouched by man, I have always been in awe.  I went through my first backpacking experience when I was 17 in the central Oregon desert.  It was 2007 and I didn't bring a camera.  But I spent eight weeks outside, learned how to build a bow drill set, set up shelter, and live in the wilderness.  Then in 2010 I went on another three month backpacking trip.  I brought a camera, but it broke the second day. I climbed mountains in Colorado, canyoneered in Utah, rock climbed in Joshua Tree, and climbed a 19,000ft mountain in Ecuador.  I was going to work for Outward Bound.  But then my accident happened.  And I went through two years of recovery and therapy.  And then I married my soul mate.  And three months later we were pregnant. It's wild how life can change in an instant.  Our experiences a...

As my daughter approaches two years of solid experience Earthside, my entire being is overcome with gratitude for her precious, original soul.  Every day, as a stay-at-home mom, I am observing her experience - seeing, hearing, feeling, knowing, hating and loving life for the first time.  Two year olds say some pretty strange and amazing things.  And I am forever indebted to the universe/God for allowing me to participate in this beautiful human being’s life as she tells me what the world looks like, seen for the first time, from a point of view that has never existed before! And its wild that we all had our own original perspectives once, two.  We may not remember because it’s always difficult to remember what we don’t have words for.  But we were all two years old once.  And we were all experiencing the world in such an original way that no one around you could give the words for it.  And if you found the words for it, usually no one co...