the sound of sunshine

packing my bags. cannot stop listening to this song. This beginning is a little repetitive but I particularly love the ending.

4th of July- Sunflower Festival

whimsy playful creative

Maybe it was the tall glass of iced coffee and coconut milk but my day was just full of giddiness and excitement.

I've been daydreaming about my future career as well as future travels and adventures.

Btw, How in the world did I know not that J.Crew has an (un)official blog? It's incredible.

Fairly certain I may be traveling to Birmingham, Alabama to see someone special (hope you're reading- you know who you are!) I plan on "touring" the city and thinking about if I'd like to look for jobs there.

Today, I was thinking about trying to get into medical equipment sales in South America. The idea that someone would pay me to travel around and have fun with others while also striving to improve their quality of healthcare is just ridiculous.

This evening I had the best run of my entire life. I've heard about this "runner's high" but never believed it was really possible. It sounded like a bunch of nonsense. I just didn't think my body would ever rejoice in being forced to run. Every time I'd start to walk and think about heading back towards my house I'd just keep on keeping on and just kept going. It was exhilarating in the most liberating way.

whale

The Whale… If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

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