just for today

i am a sucker for good quotes. these ones are so powerful!

"both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. it is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend . . . when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present--love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature & personal pursuits that bring us pleasure--the waste and of illusion falls away & we experience heaven on earth." ~ sarah ban breathnach

"our heavenly father seeks those who refuse to allow the trivial to hinder them in their pursuit of the eternal: he seeks those who will not allow the attraction of ease of the traps of the adversary to distract them from the work he has given them to perform. he seeks those whose actions conform to their words--those who say with conviction, "i am doing a great work and cannot come down." ~ elder dieter uchtdorf, april 2009 conference

in the kitchen . . . yum?

CLAIRE'S TURN!

this is not an orange. can you guess what it is?

{i will never get sick of these posts! haha! our other carelessness, or deliciousness: here, here, here, and here}

i love hyperlinks!

what a dream!

we found a treasure. by accident. an unexpected surprise!

at north farm

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,
Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes.
But will he know where to find you,
Recognize you when he sees you,
Give you the thing he has for you?

Hardly anything grows here,
Yet the granaries are bursting with meal,
The sacks of meal piled to the rafters.
The streams run with sweetness, fattening fish;
Birds darken the sky. Is it enough
That the dish of milk is set out at night,
That we think of him sometimes,
Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings?

~John Ashbery

{pic from flickr}

there are a hundred 'raisons d'être'

reasons to be:

*magic coconut squares
*my gmail template that changes with the weather
*meeting new people
*letting people know they are appreciated
*being appreciated in return
*new books
*learning to just be willing
*D&C 64:32-34
* a test of faith
*adventures of a different kind . . .

Quote of the day: "The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. "~Charlie Dubois.

"Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death"
Wednesday: Be willing to face hard things; go forward with faith.
~President Wilkey

D&C 76: 58-59

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{pic from flickr, mais j'ai oublié où}

th{ese} epic changing day{s}

that's all it really seems to be these days.

also one word to describe my life right now? weird.
also there really aren't words to describe how i really feel.
weird is an understatement.


I can't pretend that it doesn't hurt.

xyz

". . . It's only the word God, you know . . . It's merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going, and what it's all about."~I Capture the Castle

{pic here. also love this and this}

"and think not you can direct the course of
love itself directs the course of love
believe not god is in your heart, child
but rather you're in the heart of god"~Jason Mraz "God Rests in Reason"

Thanks Jason for pulling through again ;)