Solana Beach

July 2013

Nada hay absoluto
Todo se cambia
todo se mueve,
todo revoluciona,
todo vuela y se va.
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Nothing is absolute
everything changes,
everything moves,
everything revolutionizes,
all flies and goes.

-Frida Kahlo

stardust

like sunflowers

“But like sunflowers we turn toward light. Light warms, and in most cases it draws us to itself. And in this light, we can see beyond shadow and illusion to something beyond our modest receptors, to what is way beyond us, and deep inside.”

Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

sometimes you need to play hookie on Wednesdays.

these people make me so happy.

The Golden City by the Bay

I recently took a trip to San Francisco. 

Ya know just a little celebration to myself for finishing my sophomore year of college.

It was incredible to say the least.

Every single-tiny-inch of it was perfect.

The architecture, the art, the flowers, the food, the people..

and don't even get me started on Sausilito.. I will live there one day.

#bestchickenburritoever

#cousinmuffinliveson

#ithinkimightturnintoodwalla

#rapeyweekend

#bermesefoodisthebestthingsinceslicedbread

Love that Golden City.

Xoxo,

Nich

I currently have a big fat crush on this song.

Happy Monday.

xoxo

and then god created perfection

some of my favorite moments from January.

xoxo,

neesh

fear is a lie.

Every year I get a terrible case of spring fever..

it came early this year.

what did i do today?

lets see..

went to class

went to work

took my first accounting test

 blair my bike had a seizure and completely broke down

had the most delightful conversations with Dad and Si

I laid on temple beach basking in the Hawaiian sun

I longboarded barefoot to chev with stac for melon slurpees

then to the temple and got blister battle wounds

sat on the tower admiring the beauty of the world

went on a tiny boat all the way to peanut island 

snorkeled in the clearest shark infested water I've ever seen

sat in that little boat all through golden hour

watched the sunset from the middle of the ocean

watched the rainbow sky of pastels fade from the horizon

met locals that fed me and Stac some type of sea slugs right out of the water

they now call us locals we graduated the haole name

 busted my butt with homework after returning from our 2 hour boat ride

got a terrible case of spring fever that I don't believe will ever go away

and now I am writing about this flawless day

listening to the beatles--it just got even better. 

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