Yumm, Peaches....

I just wanted to share a sweet, simple, lovely video today. It’s all summer coziness!
Peach Plum Pear

A word from the ranch...

Will Ferrell is really one funny, funny man, and for sure the problem is all the steroids in tee ball

Enjoy!

A little humanity, from me to you...

Just in case you were wondering how you could make the world a better place, this is a pretty good start; Invisible Children
It’s time to turn off the Comedy Central and make the world a little better! You get to do something in your life that really matters. It's really easy, and it won't hurt a bit! When we look back on our lives, do we really want our biggest accomplishments, our defining moments, our source of pride to be how much TV we watched or how many bars we managed to get wasted in? It’s really not that hard to do something that creates even a tiny amount of positive change in the world, it will require such little effort; maybe you could even Tivo “Lost” to watch after you have given back a little!

"Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self."

Ah yes, so that is what grass looks like!

Spring has sprung, the trees are blooming and summer is just peeking its head around the corner! Not only does Chicago smell like chocolate, but in the spring and throughout the summer, it smells like lilacs! Chicago is really the greatest city on earth during the summer, aside from the humidity, and for the faithless, I am providing a link to all of the city's amazing summer festivals. Enjoy!

“fell into
a sea of grass
and disappeared among
the shady blades...
children all
ran over me
screaming tag!
you are the one!”

Jane’s Addiction
Summertime Rolls

Summer Festivals


Side note: If you were to click on Chocolate, please go to the '06 Archives, listen to the episode "In the Shadow of the City" from 2/3, the chocolate lies withen act 3, but I think is it is, thus far, the best episode of This American Life this year.

The main reason I am ashamed to not have a passport

The Cinque Terre

I really should keep my travel goals simple at the moment, as I have been all over, but not outside of the US; with that in mind, I really long to visit(and possibly not come back)the Cinque Terre in Italy. School, Money, Travel...right?