High Tea and Such.
Mint tea and Banana Bread Pudding
FIAT and live garland hanging.
Seafood Squid Ink Paella
Bay Bridge
(Tourist) at the Hindu Temple
Front yard sunset Sunday evening
Two weekends put into pictures.
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Ran out of gas on the side of 101, waiting for roadside assistance.
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Kitchen sink clogged at home...Bethy going at it with a plunger.
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Nicole's birthday trip down south to Monterey- Lovers Point.
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Marin Headlands at the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Dusk/Sundown with Chen Chen visiting from Shanghai.
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Seth's forearms.
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Turned into a PLAID Sunday dinner.
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Mint tea on the roof top terrace in the mist and fog.
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Mill's bakery/coffee house toast with homemade almond butter.
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Saturday SFMOMA with Seth
"And the light bulb goes on"
“I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, Ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.”
–Henry Rollins
Top 8 moments you know you've moved home with your parents in the burbs:
1. it takes 2 hours and both your parents to figure out the internet code
2. you order off the 2 for $20 menu at chili's
3. your mom gives you a coupon for an eye exam and the gym
4. your neighbors have atv's and an archery bow hunting set up
5. you cant figure out how to use the cable remote
bc its been that long since you've had cable.
6. you spend a whole day clearing out your old cd's and and looking at hard copy photos.
7. going to sam's club and cosco is something you look forward to.
8. you feel great about wearing the same thing 4 days in a row.
(ALL GOOD THINGS)
(ALL GOOD THINGS)
American Gothic.
American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood's inspiration came from what is now known as the American Gothic House, and a decision to paint the house along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house." The painting shows a farmer standing beside his spinster daughter. The figures were modeled by the artist's sister and their dentist. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 19th-century Americana, and the couple are in the traditional roles of men and women, the man's pitchfork symbolizing hard labor, and the flowers over the woman's right shoulder suggesting domesticity.
10. We Mistake Comfort For Happiness
The point is we don’t really get perspective on what’s close to us until we spend time away from it. Just like you didn’t realize the weird quirks and nuances of your family until you left and spent time with others, the same is true for country and culture. You often don’t see what’s odd about your country and culture until you step outside of it. Some of the stuff that we always assumed was normal, it’s kind of screwed up. And that’s OK. Because that’s true with every culture.
As Americans, we have this naïve assumption that people all over the world are struggling and way behind us. They’re not. Sweden and South Korea have more advanced high speed internet networks. Japan has the most advanced trains and transportation systems. Norwegians make more money. The biggest and most advanced plane in the world is flown out of Singapore. The tallest buildings in the world are now in Dubai and Shanghai. Meanwhile, the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. What’s so surprising about the world is how unsurprising most of it is. I spent a week with some local guys in Cambodia. You know what their biggest concerns were? Paying for school, getting to work on time, and what their friends were saying about them. In Brazil, people have debt problems, hate getting stuck in traffic and complain about their overbearing mothers. Every country thinks they have the worst drivers. Every country thinks their weather is unpredictable. The world becomes, err… predictable.
I’ve probably been to 10 countries now that friends and family back home told me explicitly not to go because someone was going to kill me, kidnap me, stab me, rob me, rape me, sell me into sex trade, give me HIV, or whatever else. None of that has happened. I’ve never been robbed and I’ve walked through some of the shittiest parts of Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.In fact, the experience has been the opposite. In countries like Russia, Colombia or Guatemala, people were so friendly it actually scared me. Some stranger in a bar would invite me to his house for a bar-b-que with his family, a random person on the street would offer to show me around and give me directions to a store I was trying to find. My American instincts were always that, “Wait, this guy is going to try to rob me or kill me,” but they never did. They were just insanely friendly.
Read this article: 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
Read this article: 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
The Mormon Stew
So Latter-day Saints are an epistemological stew; we believe that all ways of knowing are important. In fact they provide balance to each other.
In the restored Church, there should never be a mindset that all the thinking and deciding has been done and we need only to digest the truth delivered to us. Our prophets regularly challenge us to develop our own testimonies using all the methods of discovering truth.
We are invited to live the principles of the gospel and observe the blessings they produce (empiricism). Every Saint is encouraged to study and ponder the scriptures and doctrines to gain confirmation of their validity (reason). We have the gift of the Holy Ghost so that each member is entitled to personal insight and inner knowledge (intuition). We are given the opportunity to raise our hands to sustain the brethren and then look to them for godly counsel (authority). And we are startlingly unique in our belief in a living prophet and continuing revelation.
The what informs, but the why transforms.
The what of gospel teaches us what to do.
The why inspires the souls.
They helped us see how to apply gospel truth and principles to our specific circumstances and for our specific time. To put it another way, they helped us to see the why of the gospel, and then we had to roll up our sleeves and go to work.
NewYorkCity to LONDON
Anisha: hey do you think you need to find a stud behind the wall to hang up a bulletin board
Sent at 10:43 AM on Friday
Benjamin: you sound like emily, I like it and it depends on how heavy it is, if you can easily pick it up then no but if it is bigger and heavy then yes. I just hung one up and it wasnt on studs
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