We all have a time of year that we fall in love with the idea of being in love.

for some that's during Christmas time..

mariah gets the best of us

for some it's during summer..  

we all know anything is possible on summer nights

for some it's during fall.. the winds blow in change

with the changing of the leaves

for some it's during spring -- 
spring fever just makes you in love with 
the world and everyone in it.

(this is usually me I am a sucker for spring lovin')

but for some it's during the time of year dedicated to love

the conversation hearts that no one actually likes, the chocolates, the flowers, the cheesy balloons, it all just adds to the perfection.

love just surrounds everything this time of year.
it's in the air.
lets be honest you can basically taste the love as your breathe because it's so prevalent.  

how darling is it that there is one day a year dedicated to love?

Yes, valentines day is the most pointless holiday of the year.

And yes, it is 100 percent unnecessary and completely overrated.

but besides all of this..
love is perfect every single tiny inch of it.
no wonder there is a whole day dedicated to it..

So this is for all the people I love.. 
(yup that includes you mas)


there are gonna be times when we can feel our heart almost crying for love..


and there are gonna be times when we feel like love will never come our way..


but it will.


Love is real and surround us everyday.
Just breathe it in and hold your breath.
Because love will come your way: crazy, perfect, wonderful love.


I definitely haven't quite found that myself but I know its real. I have seen love in its purest forms and I know it will grace everyone it has not yet found.  


Keep you head up, breath, then wait cause it's coming, it will.





xoxo,
nich

a kiss is art

I realized this weekend I'm kinda anti social 

lets just say

big groups of people aren't really my scene.

for now..

I want to spend my Saturday nights 

at art museums, coffee shops 

and this house--preferably reading.

isn't it perfect?

love,

nich

to the moon and back.

I always run a little late on setting my new year resolutions

and to be honest every year without fail this happens..

can't quite figure it out..

last year they didn't get set till the beginning of march so improvement has been made.


i got some high expectation of myself
not sure if that a good thing so here we go..

I am going to laugh so much that my

 face is sore as many times as possible.

a couple weekends ago this happened to me

it was just about one of the greatest things

that has ever happened to me-- I want to 

experience this again and again.

I am going to go somewhere new.. somewhere

 I have never been before.

Why not right?

Don't gossip

easier said than done..but I'm determined

small people talk about other people

average people talk about things

and great people talk about ideas

I'm gonna shoot to be one of the greats

 Never neglect the beauty that surrounds

 me where ever I may be

I forget how perfect the world around me is

I am gonna breathe it in and
try to hold my breath.


Wear heels more often


As the Monte Carlo would say
if they ain't hurting they ain't helping.

I am going to read my little heart out

I have to read at least 12 books

including:

The China Study
The Hunger Games Series
The Book of Mormon
The Anatomy of Peace
Walden Life in the Woods 
more to come..

Jump off more things

such a scaredy cat

its gonna happen.

I am going to live within my means

No reason not to.


Open my heart to things it
hasn't been before


this just sound exciting.


Grow closer to the Lord.


Definite first priority 
nothing could sound better.


2012.
So excited.
xoxo,
neesh

salt water in my veins.

Sometimes i feel like i have salt water in my veins

not like a constant sting flowing through my body

but a part of the ocean that brings me peace;

 the ocean has always had the power to do this for me. 


it's like those days when you can feel the 
earth is round beneath your feet,
when you realize you are a speck in a 
speck of a tiny little speck,
but you still know you are important and how lucky
and blessed you are to be where you've arrived.

The other day I was standing on top of crouching lion this
is when I, once again,was reassured by
 the peaceful grace the ocean brings

the view down was one of the most
 peaceful things I've ever encountered.

In the center of kahana bay there was a ripple that continued
perfectly until it reached the shoreline.

Then for as far as I could see the horizon was steady,
the beauty was flawless and it was one of those moments
when I felt like salt water was raging through me 
as if it was becoming a part of me.


I'm not quite sure when this salt water made
 it's way into my veins
but there are days when I am almost sure it's there  
this probably started when I was a toddler 
running around moonlight beach eating donuts
and my mother distracting me from my chicken pocks 
as I built sand castles at ocean beach.
or
It could just be the fact that
 I live in one of the most beautiful places in the world
but time after time I am amazed at 
the beauty that the ocean brings
and just like that ripple effect into 
kahana bay and the peace it brings me
 the ocean has the power to make you feel that beneath your feet, the earth is round,
and realize the steady horizon and how it never ends.


try to feel the salt water run through your veins,
it's really good.


xoxo,
nich

the guava lie.

You should about all things be glad and young

For if you're young, whatever life you wear

it will become you; and if you are glad

whatever's living will yourself become.

-e.e cummings