So maybe it's meant to be this way. Maybe I will forever only stop here once or twice a season, posting random musings in fits and starts. Believe me, I would love to make this a ritual--a creative habit--but I must be honest with my easily distracted self. These things don't happen overnight.

But I am here and I have some ideas and inspirations.

more to come...

update.

it's been too many months without an update here. I am pretty sure i am this blog's only reader, but this is a process i am determined to follow through with. to get myself writing more. creating more...

i'm reevaluating my list. making a few changes to reflect the trajectory of my life.

1. meditate for at least 30 days straight
2. learn how to develop my own film
3. make all the recipes in a single issue of Gourmet
4. visit every farmers' market in Seattle
5. use the library
6. bake bread from a homemade starter. keep the starter alive
7. spend the night on the coast
8. get acupuncture
9. make yogurt
10. photograph the alphabet
11. take a class at PCNW
12. brush up on my spanish
13. spend more time with my friends (and keep in better contact with my long distance ones)
14. host a dinner party buy a kitchen table and eat at home more
15. clean and use and love my OM
16. spend more time in the mountains
17. plant an indoor herb garden
18. learn to knit
19. explore the neighborhoods of seattle
20. read (and actually finish) more books
21. go to new york city (visit ayelet)
22. create a photo portfolio i'm proud of
23. submit my portfolio to someone. anyone.
24. ride my bike around the islands
25. start a sewing project and actually finish it. learn to cook vietnamese cuisine
26. recycle, donate, or sell those things in my closet that no longer work or i no longer use
27. go swimming in the morning
28. first Thursday visit the SAM
29. be mindful (and minimize) of the money i spend and the waste i create

20.

(words to come soon...)

just a moment.

Has it really been over two months since my initial post on this blog? I could offer up excuses and tragedies that have prevented me from logging my progress, but i have none. Life has been good since my birthday and I've been busy doing quite a bit of nothing. I've been watching spring arrive. Watching as the sparse branches that separate our backyard from the freeway below have filled out into lush, green sound buffers. I've been in Seattle for three years now and the springtime always captures my attention with loud pink blossoms and early morning songbirds. To be honest, it's hard to stay focused and find time to place myself in front of this computer.

But here I am, once more, at this place I've reserved. And yes, I have been working on my list. I will write about that soon enough. For now I wanted to take just a moment to check in and brush off the digital dust that had collected.

day (minus) one

I like to make lists. I scratch numbered tasks and projects on scraps of bills and note cards and coffee stained napkins. Usually these lists just get written and rewritten, (very) slowly evolving--growing and shrinking as the the days pass. Sometimes they get forgetten. I'll be honest, i'm not the best at completing my lists. But, i've been inspired by so many amazing women on the web who have written their own creative lists and are documenting, through words and photos, their progress.

Tomorrow is my 29th birthday, and here is my list of twenty-nine things to complete before i turn thirty...

1. meditate for at least 30 days straight
2. learn how to develop my own film
3. make all the recipes in a single issue of Gourmet
4. visit every farmers' market in Seattle
5. use the library
6. bake bread from a homemade starter. keep the starter alive
7. spend the night on the coast
8. get acupuncture
9. make yogurt
10. photograph the alphabet
11. take a class at PCNW
12. brush up on my spanish
13. spend more time with my friends (and keep in better contact with my long distance ones)
14. host a dinner party
15. clean and use and love my OM
16. spend more time in the mountains
17. plant an indoor herb garden
18. learn to knit
19. explore the neighborhoods of seattle
20. read (and actually finish) more books
21. go to new york city (visit ayelet)
22. create a photo portfolio i'm proud of
23. submit my portfolio to someone. anyone.
24. ride my bike around the islands
25. start a sewing project and actually finish it.
26. recycle, donate, or sell those things in my closet that no longer work or i no longer use
27. go swimming in the morning
28. first Thursday
29. be mindful (and minimize) of the money i spend and the waste i create