or at least contemplative. and sometimes, that's enough. i think my favorite part is reading the answers from 2003 as i delete them to put in my new entry ( Read more... )

i'm writing this from cashmere, washington, near leavenworth, which is a little mock-bavarian town (very bizarre) where i'm taking my wilderness first responder course. it's a pretty sweet deal - i'm getting paid for the week but i don't have to go to work, we get 200 each for travel, and i'm with anthony and clay, two of my favorite second nature ( Read more... )

who is this "bil keane," anyway?

providence: present-april 21
dublin/western ireland: april 21-29
berlin/munich: april 29-may 8
utah: forever afterwards

i am so, so happy right now. i am looking out of the glass sliding door of my friend rachel's house, and over st. george i can see huge peaks of red and black and purple rock rising up into the clouds ( Read more... )

i have come to the conclusion that i am very, very lucky to have the life that i have. and that i am very, very happy to have the life that i am living right now. sometimes things just come together, that's all.

i hope that our few remaining friends ( Read more... )

i spent christmas in a santa hat and a big red down jacket, surrounded by big red cliffs and cactus. i am happy.

one thing about working with people with psychological issues that has already started to affect me is that i start applying my own damn good advice to myself. take, for example, the concept "easy-hard, hard-easy." when a client says, "oh, screw this, i'm too lazy to pack my pack well," i, or another staffer, might respond with, "yeah. i guess ( Read more... )

i just ate a BIZARRE amount of lentil soup. yummmmmmm . . .

that's what happens when you go running, go shopping, spend a gazillion years cooking because you don't have a cutting board or a can opener (whoops), and then finally sit down to dinner at around 10:30 or so. yay soup!