Summer so far

Highlights:

• Eating so much watermelon, and delicious cherries
• Movies on rainy nights
• Lightning storms
• Tie dye projects
• Hanging out by the creek with friends
• Walking to the coffee shop for chats
• Pool time
• Lots of reading

Lowlights:

• People leaving
• Car problems
• Job/money/life stress

Housekeeping

I love looking through sites like this to see what's been archived and is available for viewing on the ol' internet.  Found this one today--despite the intriguing title, I can't even quite figure out what it's about.  Home economics, I think?  Like, housekeeping and stuff?

Jeremiah Johnson

Can't help but love this one--totally where my head's at these days. Also found this, which has some interesting points about movies and the expansion of the U.S. into the west.

A Few Things

Feeling these things these days:

• This article
• Mountain living
• Healing herbs (getting way into the hippie shit here, I know)
• Projects around the house--kinda wanna try canning and making my own cleaning products
• Reading...just finished this (love Margaret Atwood)

Kodachrome

I stumbled across some pretty amazing Kodachrome photos on National Geographic this morning.  Trying to shift my thinking a bit on a Monday morning.

Photograph by Thomas Nebbia, National Geographic

Photograph by Franc and Jean Shor, National Geographic

Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic

Photograph by Franc and Jean Shor, National Geographic

Photograph by Joe Scherschel, National Geographic

Back to Basics

With the help of this trusty book, here's a few things I'm planning on doing this summer:

• Cut back on unnecessary expenditures, especially clothes
• Related, pare down to an essential wardrobe that includes only things I always want to wear
• Sit in the grass
• Read lots of books, slowly
• Go swimming (a pool will do, but a lake or a river would be fun)
• Learn about goat husbandry--I want a goat!
• Eat good food that's good for me
• Get creative--I'm thinking sewing, dying clothes, making terrariums, etc.

Cabin fever

Photo by Andy Liffner

Photo by Tom Bies

Photo by David Gagnebin-de Bons and Benoit Pointet / DGBI

All photos from Dwell.

Friday

Recommended listening for drinking coffee after running home through the rain.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Saw this on Saturday.  Beautiful and compelling--definitely recommended.

Colette

I recently read the Claudine novels by Colette, and they left me fascinated by the french writer.  She was outspoken and scandalous for her time, questioned female roles and norms--all while leading several different lives and writing good books.  I'm planning on reading Gigi this summer.