it's... thursday! another rambling piece...

honestly, there's a few things i'd like to touch on, this will likely be a ramble, and it will likely have something to do with any or a few of these things: anxiety, planning, laughing, beer, hilarity, children, nakedness, and card games.

yea... that's a pretty good way to start that.

24 Hour Comic Challenge

This weekend I participated in a 24 Hour Comic Challenge ( website! )! AND I DID IT. Basically, you have 24 hours to do a 24 page comic, planned, sketched, inked, and written. I did it, with 4 hours to spare, and learned actually quite a bit about myself. Oh... and I was sick for it...

Oregon? Who would want to go there?

Me. Of course. Well, that's exactly it. I'm heading to Oregon in April. I hope to keep the blog going much better than I have lately. Recently, my life has been flying. It seems like every day has turned into a blur, one day it's the first of March, the next, it's the 11th! I haven't been taking enough time for myself, which is what I really want to discuss in this post.

wow it's been a while, and things have changed!

Wow, so it's been a long time since I've last published something on here. A very long time.

Things have been changing in my life, and i'm sure a lot of 20-something year olds  that are blessed enough to go to college are going through the same thing.

I graduated college in May, and wow things have been busy. I've had many insights before and after that that definitely need to be shared.

New Mexico... the land of community

About 2ish weeks ago I went to New Mexico!! It was beautiful and eye opening. I went down for work, the SCA paid for the 9 of us NPS apprentices to go see each other one last time, and we covered it for work as a "cultural immersion" trip. Asides from cacti, cedar-junipers, dirt, rocks, dust, mountains, mesas, cliffs, beautiful stars, and warmth, I was also able to see something that most of us in the North East don't get to see much... community.

happiness within yourself

Realize you can be happy

this moment for no reason. 

Otherwise, you eternally depend on conditions for happiness. 

Unconscious of this moment, 

you remain a victim of circumstances.

Arthur D. Saftlas

basically one of the most beautiful blog posts i've ever read

I found a blog that I need to share with all of you... because it touched me, it grabbed me, it put tears in my eyes, it made me believe, it made me smile, it made me know i'm not alone, it overwhelmed me, it made me happy, it made me have to post it here.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did... There are some things that deserve to be shared...

Life is Beautiful

Some days I look back at my life and I wonder why I didn't realize how beautiful life is. I guess it's all a part of growing up? I guess I've matured enough and my thought capacity has grown enough to consider things that aren't revolved around myself. (Isn't that all we really are when we're young? Selfish and concerned with our own wellbeing and not others?)