we love nature

silly day, yet productive day

music and magazines

lately, I've been cutting up magazines and listening to a whole bunch of music


This is why we fight- Decemberists
Come together- The Beatles
Florescent adolescent- Arctic Monkeys
Black like me- Spoon
M76- Vampire Weekend
Say yes- Elliot Smith
Piazz, new york catcher- Belle and Sebation
Carolina- Benjamin Gibbard
Michicant- Bon Iver

San Francisco 8/20-22

AT LAST! a trip to San Francisco. I've been told for years now "Jessica, you belong in San Francisco". Over and over, yet I have never been. My good friend Cameron lives up there, so when I knew I was going to visit my Uncle in Santa Cruz...I made sure that I was going to make a trip to SF.

I took a train up there
alone
I got on one train
transfered to a bus
and transfered to another underground train
alone
ended up in the pit of China Town, with no word of English
I came to far on the bus, so I had to find my way around
with a heavy bag on my shoulder and a map in my hand
it was quite an adventure, a 3 hour one

I made it eventually. Spent 3 days with Camerons rediculosly cool roomates, and other friends. Bobby, Dawn, Ana, Gina, Ginas BF, Danielle, Trevon, and Cayvon. (I think that's all). My favorite part of the trip was when we had taco night...everyone got together and all made tacos and played taboo afterwords. We also went to coffee shops, into the city, coit tower, lombart and haight street, some of those famous bridges and parks, sushi, and other places.

I loved SF, but I didn't spend enough time there to figure if that is the place I want to live. For now, So Cal is my home and where I am most content.

Santa Cruz (august 15-19)

ate at soo many different resturants

went on a plane by myself for the first time

worked out a lot

walked around town, down town

read the bible, meditated

red woods, ocean views, lighthouses

museums, aquariums, tourist shops

gardens, piers, bays

here are just SOME of the photos:

taste testing adventure

today I decided to go for a run. I started out, ran a while and thought to myself "wow I'm in better shape then I was a month ago" because a month ago I could not nearly run as much as I did nor did I want too. I've been going to the gym lately, a lot. well half way into my workout I stumbled upon a lime tree and thought to myself "wow I love limes" so I took one, threw it on the ground and stepped on it...it broke in half and I had some lime juice. running a little longer, I ran pass this weird fruit looking tree so I took on and opened it and it looked like a guava so I ate it...actually I ate two. I kept going and passed many houses that had orange trees in front of them...so I took one from one house, and one from another house. they were so good. with sticky hands, I kept pressing on, but by this time I was definitely not running because it was hot and my mind was not in the mood.

so I figured it was adventure time now

I picked up a newspaper in front of someones house, I meditated on the side of someones lawn, I took a pomegranite from someones tree, and I realized that I love black leaved tree and white flowered bushes

It was nice, I even tried getting water out of a cactus...but it didn't work

4 souls, 4 friends

I've been thinking and I realized that I have some friends that are different types of friends, they are more like soul friends. We relate on different levels, and we are very similar. I think I have about 4 of these friends and I've come to realize that when I don't talk to them for a long period of time I develop this bitterness. I don't know why, but I think the feelings go both ways. It's almost like I need their fulfillment or something, I'm not sure. Two of these friends are my close friends, but the other two are not...which is weird to me.

Speaking of bitterness, I would say that is the sin that has consumed me lately. Pray for me, if you would.

I still need to show you the photos from San Francisco and Santa Cruz

Today I also came across this verse twice, in two different places "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity." 1 Timothy 4:12