this afternoon, as i sat in the focus, which sat on the ferry, which sat on the pacific ocean, i heard rj's voice for the first time since april and i can't wait to be back in victoria.
it's still august by eight minutes and we just got back from salt spring. my laundry is spinning away one floor below me and the most beautiful boy in the world is asleep on the couch. we're going to nelson tomorrow and then to victoria on tuesday. then i'll say a little goodbye to this summer and launch into school with guns ablazin'.
so here is to august and to my twentieth summer and to the feeling right before you launch off the cliff of the world's best rope swing.
August 31, 2006
August 24, 2006
July 07, 2006
interlude
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
-Rudyard Kipling, "If"
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
-Rudyard Kipling, "If"
June 26, 2006
the summer sun knows me by name
sunday.
brie, rebecca & me.
lake okanagan.
so fun.
nothing suits this weather and current fun levels like a little bit of the brady bunch: i gotta get out get me some of those rays. you know how it is. i don't know how anyone can take life seriously when there is so much fun around. canada day is coming and we're gonna get silly.
my summer goals go a little like this:
- sit on my roof
- plan a holiday with loverboy
- watch nip/tuck
- dance
- fly kites
- watch sunrises
- read books (the list may or may not come)
- learn some constellations
- explore
- visit alberta
- build forts
- boulder
- drive the seadoo
- learn cool recipes
- cliffjump
- volunteer
- fix my tan
- wear sundresses & floppy hats
- have afternoon parties
- picnic
- kiss & hug
June 21, 2006
june21!
happy summer!
sunburns and tanlines are where it's at. strategically buying $6 superstore tanktops to fix our current wifebeater goodlooks is always a treat and you know it's summer when your flipflopped feet are covered in dirt. i'm amped about all the good books and beach afternoons that await. today my boss said that we're going to start working only from 7am-1pm when it starts getting to 38 degrees next week. then it's to the beach as fast as the focus will carry us. as if this is actually my life.
jenna, i miss you.
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