What a year it has been......

I wish I could have been better about keeping up on my blog. I always am so inspired by others, I aim to create and share daily. The past year has been ... well it's been quite a year... I will start back on this blog by saying, I know how it feels to fall uncontrollably from where you have worked so hard to get to. 2011 started off with the passing of my father... while the pain lived in me I promised myself to keep going to school to get closer to my degree. I just needed distraction from the reality that was all around me. As I was finishing up my semester of school I found myself in a nasty situation resulting in a DUI and the loss of my license.. I tell you this accepting responsibility for my actions... I ended up breaking off of a long term relationship and skipping a semester of school. My life has transformed unrecognizably, which is neither good nor bad, just different. I have been trying to adapt and adjust. I have finally found myself in a place where I feel I can devote time and energy into the things I am passionate about. I plan to add to my blog regularly. I hope to hear your thoughts and inspirations as well.

Much Love,

Jamie

Just a thought...

We shall pass through this world but once.

Therefor, any good thing I can do,

For any living being,

Let me do it now.

Let me not defer it or neglect it,

For I shall not pass this way again.

-Anonymous

Prayer found in The Vegan Sourcebook by Anonymous

Resolutions

I have been debating weather to post these or not.

I always greet the new year with big dreams

and a childlike enthusiasm to accomplish my goals.

I have more often than not have set goals and ideas only

to forget about them a month later.

I guess they must not have been that important.

So I have thought long and hard about what

ideas I want to be important to me this year.

Here they are...

Create something beautiful everyday. (Anything counts, just create.)

Make more pieces of clothing than I buy.

Have more adventures.

Cut my Starbucks habit and save that $4 a day for my own espresso machine.

Volunteer for a cause I believe in.

Yoga daily.

So now that I have posted my ideas here,

I will see them and remember.

Be held to them.

I welcome this new year with an open heart

and a fresh thirst to live and create.

1. Leonora Scarf, Anthropologie 2. Tim Walker via. Luxe & Love 3. La Belle Vie 4. La Pavoni Espresso Machines, gold finish 5. Mark Godfrey of The Nature Conservancy 6. yogainair.com

The Sunday List......

If I was a month, I’d be October.

If I was a day of the week, I’d be Saturday.

If I was a time of day, I’d be dawn.

If I was a planet, I’d be Earth.

If I was a sea animal, I’d be a sea horse.

If I was a direction, I’d be north.

If I was a piece of furniture, I'd be a bookshelf.

If I was a liquid, I’d be hot tea.

If I was a gemstone, I’d be a crystal.

If I was a tree, I’d be a weeping willow.

If I was a tool, I’d be a needle.

If I was a flower, I’d be a tiger lily.

If I was a kind of weather, I’d be silent snow.

If I was a musical instrument, I’d be a violin.

If I was a color, I’d be grey.

If I was an emotion, I’d be passion.

If I was a fruit, I’d be coconut.

If I was a sound, I’d be rain on the earth.

If I was an element, I’d be water.

If I was a car, I’d be a bicycle.

If I was a food, I'd be garlic.

If I was a place, I’d be a mountain peak.

If I was a material, I’d be lace.

If I was a taste, I’d be spicy.

If I was a scent, I'd be the smell of rain.

Mushroom of the week!!!!

Happy Mondays!!!!!

Good Morning Fellow AM'ers

Thought you might need a song and pic to cheer you up.

Have a beautiful day.

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