STUFF

You may not know this about me (but, let's face it, if you're reading this, you probably know me pretty well, and consequently you probably DO know this about me) but I am monumentally bad at waiting. Waiting for things. Waiting for people. Waiting for the weather to change. Every time I think I've learned how to be oh-so-patient, something happens that is completely and absurdly out of my control and teaches me that I know nothing at all. Even if it's a good thing that I'm waiting on...it kills me. It also consumes my brain so I have little room to think of anything else. Things are hard you guys. I know this is really vague. I'm sorry for that. I just thought you might sympathize :)

I got an email from a friend today. In it she said "Life isn’t perfect, but we choose how we deal with it. I think you excel at this." I think that's one of the highest compliments someone could possibly give me right now, mainly because I feel like a wimpy whiner most of the time. 

What I'm obsessing over right now

Weirdest video ever but I cannot stop listening to this song.

A wintry death

You guys. Snow + my car + my absolute inability to force myself to replace my sad old tires with anything even slightly more snow appropriate = all of these things will lead me to ruin before this winter is over. I love this canyon. I wish I could squash it into a tiny package, wrap it in sunshine and that wonderful smell it has after rain and then stuff it away in a little corner of my heart FOR ALL TIME, but the winter commute INTO the canyon is a completely different story. It's like running down a trail, coming face to face with a bear, the bear seeing you, running towards you, swiping at your face with its massive claws and missing by millimeters. That feeling you would have in your heart? That's how I feel when it's snowing and I somehow make it to work safely.

Off to ponder what other folksy nature-related metaphors I can share with you this morning.....

In the meantime, listen to this:



And then read the famously snarky A.O. Scott's review of Lincoln. It's not unusual for him to be so eloquent, but this kind of commendation and reverence is incredibly unusual coming from him. It is a wonderfully well-written review (I love and appreciate a good movie review), and I'm incredibly excited to watch this movie.

You guys. Brandi Carlile.

Quotes

“In the process of life, we are not always the already-tempered and helpful hammer; shaping and pounding another.  Sometimes we are merely the anvil.” 

George MacDonald

The Civil Wars

For me, right now, this is perfection.