tourmaline and toxoplasmosis

enough said.

forte

heard this piece while i was on my way to my harp lesson. it just came up on kusc. bam. masgani. when i heard it, at first all i could think about was that orchestra conductor yelling at me. for being a harpist, ya know? (notice on my sheet music forte is written and circled right at the top where i CAN'T miss it. i did once or twice.) and then i remembered howmuch i loved it and how much i miss it. oh man, emotional audrey started crying right then and there. in the car. embarrassing. only to myself really, but yes. it was.

advice from a wise man

Last night my parents took my sister and i to see my 84 year old grandfather (who resembles georgle washington yes, it is true). we visited and talked and brought him ice cream and right before we left my mother asked if he had any advice for my sister and i and he said, " don't stay out to late...". after we left i did in fact sstay out late. on my drive way. it's so warm out at night now that it's pleasent. the smog covers the stars, but the moon was too bright and full to be covered by any much pollution. it made me realize that we are just little earth-things about the crust of a spherical rock in the universe. life is miraculous. and short i suppose. carpe diem before you run out of diem.

enjoying the experience of my adventures

sometimes i forget that i am a highschooler. maybe it's because i spend summer with family who is older than i. i feel like i'm 25 in the summer and then i go back to school and remember my age. i walked into school this morning and found nothing but pubey children. it makes me giggle to think about it. however, i'm still happy. i'm still enjoying the experience of it all. the way people are is simply fascinating.

keys of a piano

when i was at my stay at the lost whale inn on my trip to oregon and back down the coast, i found a piano in the living room. it was a grand piano and was brown, i liked it. it had a nice sound. it had ivory keys too. but on the stand of the piano there was bach's prelude VI and so i tried it. and i loved it! it made me feel so at home and cozy and lovely. i guess being able to make music makes me feel that way, no matter where i am.

ahoy!

ahoy mates. me and my captain just discovered our next destination. it is called Dr. Wilkinsons. sounds sketchy right? well it is. it is a mudbath place. yes, i will be bathed in mud. and yes, i will like it. captain, you've really done it again.

redwood forest and a dead seal

the redwood forest was nothing like what i thought it'd be. i thought it would be foresty, but nothing like what i saw. this was green everywhere. so green that moss could grow on pine trees. and the redwoods were so high and so full that it was shady and cool from the canopies. i loved it. anyways, we arrived out our b&b and walked down to the coastline and my sister spotted a seal on a rock. she got real close to it with her camera and realized she was four feet away and it wasn't swimming away, something was wrong. turns out that precious little seal (that had an odd resemblance to cedric) died.