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So I guess I have to change it. The culture. So I guess no one else is stepping up. I guess J doesn’t set us free so we can sit around and wait.

This is my forever! I’ll wear what I want! I’ll dance and skip when I want! I’ll be!

I had a great weekend. I didn’t really do any work… but I did more important things. J My friend T came to visit me, and then tonight I hung out with my swing friends.

Tomorrow is Monday and jam packed. But I’m trusting it to be a good jam packed. I added some things to my list of epic.

The Cinci zoo had a baby giraffe!

I’m realizing how crazy different I am from the culture and people in it. That’s a GOOD thing. I’m just saying, I’m noticing it more. Like, wow. Everything about me is different. I’m learning how to live with people who are clinging to the values and norms of the culture. (ok, not everything, but hanging out with people, I’m seeing the differences very clearly.) radical. (but how else is there to live?) the trick, I think, is learning how to respond to people who dislike it, whether that be out loud or in my heart.

Cause I am so done with status quo. It’s so boring. Money is so dull. Movies lie. Academics are not interesting. I don’t want to chase that crap.

Happy. Cause J is so so SO amazing. Cause I’m not called to a boring life. Cause I am radically different. J

Happy.

Happy.

Happy!

ready. set. go!

List of Epic

I have these two cool friends. They have a list of Epic things to do hanging on the wall in their living room. There is also a blogger I follow (but not officially), and she has a life to-do list on her blog. And I am going to make one. It's not a bucket list. It's just things I would like to do.

I have 25 so far. :)

1. fly in a hot air balloon (I’ve been in one before but it was tethered so it doesn’t count.)

2. get some poetry published

3. dance with a stranger in a park

4. give something sweet and sentimental to a stranger

5. live somewhere beautiful

6. visit the European countryside

7. go on a safari in Africa

8. be an extra in a movie

9. learn to paint

10.have a whole conversation on the phone with a stranger

11.bake bread by hand on a regular basis

12.have a conversation with a stranger on some sort of transportation vehicle.

13.twirl around in a field

14.watch sunrises regularly in summer and sunsets regularly in winter

15.learn to cook

16.garden

17 be able to do pull ups.

18.100 pushups

19.have lunch with a homeless person

20.pick wildflowers and give them to a stranger

21.write poems for friends

22.sleigh ride

23.wear a poofy dress to the grocery store (more than once)

24.plant flowers in public places without permission

25.play the djembe in a drum circle

Saturday

Today I woke up at about 8 when the whole room was glowing gold. Then I went back to sleep till the roomie woke up at 9:30. She went to shower and I read my book for a while. (Walking With God by John Eldrege) It was lovely. And then when I finally got up Lara and I got breakfast. Then we went for a really long walk. We walked to the airport :) and then she showed me a new hill and pond. There is a big slab of rock leading down the water so we laid on our backs and stared at the sky and basked in the sun. It was gorgeous. And then we walked back. :) DELIGHTFUL. It's also GORGEOUS outside with not a cloud in the sky and while we were out it was BLUE BLUE BLUE! And now I need to do homework. (But I did start yesterday :) ) So it's basically the best day I've had in a long time. :)

Have a happy day! Choose joy!

~P