September 2011
5 posts
Grapefruit face
After sucking a sour grapefruit, there are creases that form in my face. They remind me of the wrinkles that I will -one day- be proud to have.
A wise elderly woman- a friend of my mother, who I had not seen since age 7- came back into my life this past weekend. She sat and spoke with me, the 96 year old woman; sharp as a pin. She looked at me exclaiming how “exquisite and grown up I have become” and after moments of silence, after several moments of staring into my eyes, she was saturated like a sponge; the joy could have...
G'pa
Hi Grandpa. Sunday was your last day with us on this earth. I want you to know that I am proud of you in so many ways. I am proud that you were strong enough to let go. We will all look over Grandma with love and devotion. We will support her in whatever way she needs to be supported at this time and from here on out. I have had two dreams, vivid but hard to recall the detail of them. All that I...
WEDDING
EMILYS WEDDING IS IN 4 DAYS! (been waiting 2 years for this) eeeeee!
Last week
Last week was the NYC Trevor Hall concert at Mercury Lounge. Before the concert, Hallie, Jason, Ashley and I went to dinner at “Earthmatters” in the Lower East Side. We walk in there and low and behold, who but Trevor Hall and his band are sitting right there eating their dinner before the show. Of all the eateries in the city and in the lower east side, it felt pretty awesome to...
August 2011
10 posts
Kelsey Morris and Jason Nichols →
Insanely talented Vineyard friends:)
Imagination Does Not Exist - Hafiz
You should come close to me tonight wayfarer
For I will be celebrating you.
Your beauty still causes me madness,
Keeps the neighbours complaining
When I start shouting in the middle of the night
Because I can’t bear all this joy.
I will be giving birth to suns.
I will be holding forests upside down
Gently shaking soft animals from trees and burrows
Into my lap.
What you conceive...
It feels good...
to be detached from my phone.
3 tags
Bon Iver Setlist - Prospect Park - August 10th,...
wreckandrun:
Perth
Minnesota, WI
Towers
Creature Fear
Beach Baby
Hinnom, TX
Wash.
Blood Bank
Michicant
Re: Stacks
Holocene
Flume
Calgary
Beth/Rest
Encore:
Skinny Love
Who Is It (Björk cover)
The Wolves (Act I and II)
Encore 2:
For Emma
July 2011
6 posts
Kayak Chappy
This afternoon it’s supposed to be almost 100 degrees. While I am sweating from the tip of my nose, I will be googley-eyed over the beauty of Chappaquiddick with my dear friend Serena. We are biking over to Chappy once I can get myself up from the couch. Vacation has allowed me the time to develop an interest in CSI. Now I know what all the “rave” is about. Time to get...
...
There is wisdom and knowledge in the spaces.
June 2011
10 posts
As said on claywire.tumblr.com...
As a passenger in the car on my way to Vermont this weekend, I started to make rings, too! Not only is this earrings and pendants but yes ladies and gentlemen, claywire’s got rings too.
Wanderlust
This weekend (tomorrow) I am driving with a friend of mine -Hallie- up to New Paltz. After spending Thursday morning soaking up the town, we will then head to Bondville, Vermont. Thursday night I plan to get plenty of sleep because Friday morning at 8am begins my three days of retreat. Yoga/music/good food/hiking/new people/Stratton Mountain/free gondala rides around Stratton Mountain and a whole...
“juice, potlucks and basil.”
– I really just like the look/sound of those words all together.
What I want this summer to be all about:
.potlucks
.sam dolph-haha, not just because I know she follows me on tumblr, but really.
.expressing myself accurately
.being wet (sweating on the farm/running through sprinklers at Prospect Park)
.looking on the bright side
.attending festivals
.companionship
.sleeping under the stars
.new music discoveries
.appreciating
If you want to:
Check out the other blog that’s rollin’ along here:
claywire.tumblr.com
Very happy to share my muse with you all.
its overcast.
Today is a Saturday. An overcast Saturday in Brooklyn. I was supposed to work this morning in one of our gardens, Jane Bailey Memorial Garden in Fort Greene. Every Saturday from 11 to noon, there is a program called ClubFit yoga in two of our 52 community gardens. The yoga classes are just another way that NYRP strives to cultivate community in New York City, not to mention these classes are free!...
April 2011
16 posts
The one thing getting my stuffy brain and tired body through this morning at work is a Joni Mitchell playlist.
ahh.
Entrepreneur
Sick with a wicked sore throat tonight because I didn’t rest and take care of myself enough from the illness of LAST weekend. I am in my pajamas on a Saturday night in Brooklyn. Oh rain-speckled pavement shining below my gaze from the living room window, how I don’t long to be outside coexisting with you; not tonight. Instead, I am content watching Modern Family on Hulu and making...
“The Lovers
will drink wine night and day.
They will drink until they can
tear...”
A Community of the Spirit
This is a poem that is read at my mom’s Passover Seder every year. Without fail, each and every time that I hear Anniepies voice recite it, my stomach and my throat get twisted up in eachother. There is something rich about tradition that is established by your own family, and not by another group of people.
There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the...
DMT
I was in Colorado a few weeks ago, visiting a dear friend of mine, Sophie, who was a fellow pre-schoolmate of mine at the Huguenot Pre-School in New Paltz. After 14 years of having mutual connections and friends, but not being in contact with one another specifically, we met again during our senior year in our respective high schools. We both worked at the Gilded Otter as waitstaff and Sophie...
I guess you should probably just check this out. →
breaking through
Last night I broke through the internal barrier. For 3 or 4 days before the meeting, I entertained ways that I could legitimize bailing out on it. The opposing side of my brain: true DESIRE to want to succeed and it’s trusty friend, LOGIC said: “LEAH, are you serious? You have been waiting to get involved and back into this passion of yours for months!” And even up until an hour...
It is this...
It is this very morning, on this high 40’s sunny day -that, when I checked weather.com on Monday, was projected to be a scattered showers day- that I sat down at my computer to check my email and started typing “newpal…”
Backspace, backspace, backspace …
NOT newpaltz.edu, Leah. And here I am. Alone in my chair and in my mind. Just a teeny bit proud that it took me...
"Looks like New York City might need a gym...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bronx-and-brooklyn-are-un_n_843098.html
March 2011
21 posts
April 6th
http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Area-ASL-Practice-Group/
Knowing that something is right is only half the quest. Following through with it is another story:) I finally found it.
