time is on my side, yes it is.

For some reason when MJ and I got home today it looked as though a giant monster made of wind came through our neighborhood and tore a bunch of shit up. there were leaves and branches and stuff everywhere and then in the drive way we saw GIANT HALE. i mean, it was small enough to hold like 10 of them in your hand, but that's big for hale. anyway and so now theres this eerie constant beeping noise going on outside in the creepy aftermath of this imaginary storm that we only have seen the results of. weird. and all this came on a day when I was already all freaked out about time. i am reading a book called "in praise of slowness" and it's basically about how, as we humans sped time up by fractionating it all to pieces and allotting them tasks, we have voluntarily sped ourselves up, we sped our lives up, and none of us like being all sped up but the system we have created and the system in which we live revolves around the whole concept we hold of time. so, weird day for sure. in a good way.


also, I paid my tuition for teacher training today! i am so happy that this is finally happening. me, a young and liberated yogini.

anarchy is dumb.

Been reading/learning a lot about society/politics/social theories and sciences, etc. I think most of it is crazy nonsense. I watched a video for the Philosophy class i took at El centro. it was talking about how in some countries children are the only ones in their families able to work, physically able. and so,there you have that situation but, if you say 'child labor', child labor! people in the west believe it is wrong. no one remembers that situation, if the child is the only person in a family able to work, and the child works, he is providing for his family. he is ensuring the survival of his family. and in that case, who am i to say that it is wrong. I have never been in that situation, but if I were 7 and my mother was ill, I would want to work to help her feed our family. if i were not allowed because of a law or something and we had no money for anything, that would be a much worse situation. So anyway - that's child labor, just an example. some things are easy to agree with on the surface, but if you look a little deeper sometimes you are surprised how little you understand about what it is you are agreeing with. I believe it's in my best interest to constantly be challenging ideas, and especially my own. so i also just went to half price and got a bunch of books. one of them is about "slowness". i am going to read it now.

blogging is awesome/fun and theraputic

This 4th of July rocks. i got to spend time w/ so many people i usually miss, like my little sister Haylee and my aunt Tammy and my grandma, who is one of the coolest ladys. she tells awesome stories, like, to where you really feel like youre there with her, about gorwing up in the 40's and 50's. i would like to write a book about her, and maybe about all those women, her crew. She has had a very interesting and beautiful life thus far.
Also, today, I ate a gross amount of cheese. cream cheese corn, potatoes w/cheese, jallapenos filled with cream cheese wrapped in bacon without the bacon (mike ate all the bacon). also a cheese sandwich. eww. a cheese sandwich. and cheetos. wow. it seems like way too much cheese now that i am writing it all down. Laura is going on a juice fast. I should copy her. I have a vegetable-stained Jack lalane juicer that works so-so. wish i could afford a vita-mix but they're a million dollars and who has a illion dollars to spend on a juicer.

Happy 4th of July 2009!!