The Flower of Life

We are all connected. Even though we each live in our own little world, our world's overlap, like a Venn diagram. The image above is often referred to as the Flower of Life. I am very into sacred geometry, as I believe it is the closest link we have to bridging science and spirituality. This pattern is simply made from 61 overlapping circles. It is representative of countless natural processes in nature, including cell replication. I believe it is also a great visual representation of how we all co-create our world.  

Imagine each circle is a human life. An independent entity, but infinitely connected to the whole. If you are at all interested in this, I highly recommend reading more into it. There is a lot of pretty cool information out there. Here is a simple image showing where this comes from, and how you can draw it for yourself.

If you are anything like me, you easily become overwhelmed by the woes of the world, and want to do everything you can to make it a better, brighter, more loving place than it seems to be. It seems like such a simple idea: a world full of compassion, sharing, love, and peace. It is here, all around us, but it can only be real if we pay attention, much like silence.

Naturally, I wish I could make everyone think like me. Alas, life just doesn't work that way. My dad once told me, "The hardest thing in the world to do is to change yourself, so what makes you think you will ever be able to change someone else?" It seemed so true, I almost laughed. Ever since, I have focus inward, attempting to make myself the best person I can be. Positive change internally creates positive effects externally. If I become better, then maybe in a small way, so has the world.

Be the ripple that knows it is also the river. Let life dance through you.

That's all for now Friends,

Marci
~With love

Thoughts on Lucid Dreaming

After missing a few days of writing over the weekend I am determined not to miss any more. So prepare yourselves for low quality posts occasionally!

I guess I will write a bit about lucid dreaming tonight. It seems like everyone I talk to has had some sort of experience with this to varying extents. If you are unfamiliar with the term, it is when you gain consciousness in a dream. For most people this seems to be a rare, but fun experience. Recently I have been practicing wake induced lucid dreaming, or WILD.

I think most of us are so exhausted when we go to bed at night we just hit the bed and fall asleep. We don't think too much about the transition our bodies and minds make from waking to sleeping. I started paying attention to these states when I decided bedtime was a good time for me to practice my meditation, seeing as I often had trouble falling asleep. I found myself drifting into strange states of consciousness; staying conscious long after, or what seemed to be long after sleep paralysis was induced. This was my starting point into lucid dream research.

You can google this topic for yourself, but I believe you will find a lot more than you expect. Check out lucid dreaming, MILD and WILD methods, and astral projection. If you choose to dive down this rabbit hole as I have, enjoy! It can be a roller coaster of a ride.

Goodnight, and sweet dreams!

Marci
~With love

Archaeology, Balance, and The Beatles

Everything in the known universe exists is the most majestic sort of balance. From the cosmic to the atomic level the same beauty sings through the balance and order of all existence.

Humans were a part of this as well, until about 13,000 years ago. That's when the evidence starts getting really strange. If you aren't familiar with some of the more unadvertised archaeological finds check out these sites:

Gobekli Tepe - 11,000 year old monolithic site in Turkey

If you read this article they will tell you this whole site was built by hunter-gatherers that had yet to invent metal tools or pottery. What do you think?

The reliefs on these giant stones are astounding considering their age. The reason this site has been preserved so well is because it was intentionally buried.

Yonaguni Monument - 10,000 year old lost city off the coast of Japan

There is a lot of debate following this site it seems. Was it built when the sea level was lower or did tectonic plate movement sink it to the bottom of the ocean? Either way, it old and it is huge.




Those are just a couple of examples of finds that at the very least through a kink in our understanding of human history. Current academic archaeologists will tell you we were hunter-gatherers 10,000 years ago. Unless we were hunter-gatherers living in huge cities building monolithic temples, the Earth has a different story.

Either way, for a long time now, human have not existed in balance with the rest of the universe. We ABSOLUTELY know this. We affect and destroy what is around us. In fact, we have been and still are creating desserts all over our planet.

The world works in a constant balance, it may shift, but it will inevitably shift back. I believe we are about to shift, in one way or another. For a very long time, humans have been balancing their lifestyles on each other. For one continent to have excess another starves. Until we collectively see this, accept it, and move toward change we will be heading in the same downward spiral direction we are headed in right now. If this happens, I believe we will finish destroying one another.

We all know how easy it can be to simply say, "Don't waste that, there are starving kids in Africa," but that is only the first step; seeing. It is great that it is so easy to see some of the biggest problems in the world. The next step is accepting: very different. This step involves forgiveness: letting go of the past, and surrender: letting go of the future.

We need to collectively accept that we have created our world, and forgive ourselves and every other responsible party. Any one person can practice this, it is not a religious thing I am talking about. The trick to forgiveness is to realize your past, or anyone else's, has no control over the present moment, unless you let it. Once you are able to forgive, the past holds no power over your thoughts, which is why I call it letting go of the past. This can be the most difficult or the easiest thing you have ever done, it just depends on your mind.

Surrender to the future: just let go. Stop planning, needing, wanting. For anyone who enjoys the bible, didn't Jesus say "don't worry for the morrow takes care of itself"? It is no more complicated than that. If Jesus doesn't do it for you, how about The Beatles?

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.

Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.

Nothing you can make that can't be made.

No one you can save that can't be saved.

Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.

Nothing you can know that isn't known.

Nothing you can see that isn't shown.

Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

It's easy. 

If we can all gather in the present moment with knowledge, acceptance, and surrender I believe the universe will help bring balance back to humans. I also know we humans can do this on our own. Although we have become quite clever, we still have our natural intelligence, as do all animals.  We can fix the problems we have created.

The evolution of our minds has changed humans more than becoming bipedal did. We see our self as one life all alone in the universe floating along, clinging to things as time rolls by until inevitably big evil death comes to take away everything you just worked so hard for. Don't feel bad though, coral polyps feel the same way, experiencing an individual reality when they are actually just one small part of a whole.  

I am writing this today because balance is something I have not yet been able to find in my personal life. My pursuit of this balance though, is why I believe so strongly in the role our mind plays. I can have peace, even though at times it seems to pass all understanding, but balance I can not have, or create. There are too many factors that enter my life on a daily basis that are out of my control and seem to disrupt any temporary balance I seem to find - be it a person, event, the weather, money, or pain - something seems to throw a kink in it.

In writing this I realize one person can not create balance - it by definition involves everything. So, surrender must be the answer.

This is my dream,

Imagine there's no heaven 

It's easy if you try 

No hell below us 

Above us only sky 

Imagine all the people 

Living for today... 

Imagine there's no countries 

It isn't hard to do 

Nothing to kill or die for 

And no religion too 

Imagine all the people 

Living life in peace... 

Imagine no possessions 

I wonder if you can 

No need for greed or hunger 

A brotherhood of man 

Imagine all the people 

Sharing all the world... 

You may say I'm a dreamer 

But I'm not the only one 

I hope someday you'll join us 

And the world will live as one

Sorry I didn't write for a few days!

Marci
~With love

Esperanto!

Have you heard of it? Cause I hadn't. The languages was invented to be used as a universal language, and very easy to learn. I am going to learn it for fun because it seems so darn easy!

Read about it on wikipedia, it's history is actually quite interesting. I like that it seems so logically simple and that it borrows vocabulary from so many languages. It's fun to read an almost intuitive.

That's all for today. I had a busy day :)

On Friendship

I'm sure I could look up a great quote about friendship, but I'm not going to.

Anyone who knows me could tell you I am an emotional person. I connect with people, and love very easily and intensely. I can't speak for any of you, but 'out of sight out of mind' has never been the case for me. There are so many people I haven't seen in years that I think about everyday. We all must do this on some level as we "follow" each other on social media - while in reality only actually communicating with very few people.

Sometimes I think others must feel the same way, and I will write to a friend I haven't spoken with in a long time; 9/10 times I never get a reply. I understand. I have had messages sent to me that I read and don't respond to right away and before you know it you come across it days later, feel like an ass and never write back.

Or maybe ya just don't want to talk to me. Occam's Razor, right? Either way, the point is we don't communicate anymore.  What would we really talk about anyway? Life has dragged us so far apart, we may even seem like different people now. That's reality.

When we were kids were thought our friends were going to be there for the rest of our lives. Maybe that is the hunter-gatherers in us. Relationships get shorter and more varied, but we still have this idea they are supposed to stick. We get attached. This leads to loneliness and longing. Maybe it is part of why so many people seem so sad.

I choose to operate with a different philosophy. Friends come into our lives unexpectedly to enrich our spirit and leave us with a feeling of love. This kind of mind-shift changes those feelings of "missing" to feelings of cherishing and love. So don't get attached to your old friends, just cherish the times you shared whenever they cross your mind. And seek out new friends! I often will go out for a day and my only plan is to be open to whomever I encounter. It is actually really fun and you have some pretty great conversations. More to cherish! This is how you enrich your life.

Lastly, to all of my friends -

Whether we met in Sunday school, elementary school, middle or high school, at college, through work, travel, mutual friends, community plays or sitting on a lawn - I cherish you everyday, and I look forward to the day we cross paths again. Until then, I am watching you on Facebook and wishing you the best Life has to give. ;)

Marci
~With LOVE!

Free-hand Stained Glass

A while ago I decided I needed a hobby. I wanted to do something artistic and decided on stained glass. I started watching videos of how to do stained glass windows and there were so many exacting steps of tracing patterns and breaking the glass perfectly, fitting it together, and all that... anyway I decided to just start cutting and fitting pieces of glass together.

I had these pieces cut out for about a month and today I finally did the grinding, copper tape and soldering. Every step of working with glass like this is really fun. Right now I am working with scrap pieces of glass I am able to find. Since I have decided not to work with anything I have predawn or follow any patterns as I am working, I have also decided that I am not to going to be concerned about the color of the glass. I am interested to see what I can come up with by not following the rules!


If anyone has anything they would like as a little nightlight, light catcher, window hanging, or ornament let me know and I will attempt to create it!

Marci
~With love

A Slice of my "Useless" Education

Today I was cleaning up this notebook I am working on and came across a lot of old stuff from school. I am going to share a more thought out piece of writing today, but first I want to just briefly talk about school. I got a B.S. in Anthropology with my focus in Biological anthropology - this is irrelevant and tells you nothing about my education or abilities. Here is what my education taught me: to step outside of my own cultural constructs and see the myriad of ways human beings live lives all over the globe, I learned to question sources, to think for myself, that "right" is subjective, and that if you don't "take charge of your own education" (as one of my Greek professors used to say) lasting learning doesn't happen.

There are those who believe I wasted time and money on an undesirable major, and employers who have mocked me in interviews sarcastically asking how I would apply what I learned in their work place. All I have to say to them is this - I did not choose the education I did for you, I followed my passions and interests and loved every bit of it, and because of that, I will retain more and continue a life of learning.

This paper I wrote over four years ago caught my eye as I was sorting through old files and it resonated with me. Obviously when I wrote this I was thinking about "style" in an artistic context. I feel some themes I touch on relating to choices made within sets of constraints, rules, and whatnot could be more universally applied to how people live their lives; if style is living, our lives are a work of art, and we are the artists.

Style is reproducing previous patterns while including certain changes that are a result of choices made by the artist within a set of constraints. Style can be in the behavior of the humans, or in the work of art created by the human. The artist that conforms to them rarely creates these constraints. Instead, they are learned and are a part of the culture in which that the artist is brought up. These constraints can include things that cannot be controlled by the artist. Human choice is what makes style possible. As soon as the artist is able to make a choice, style becomes possible. Here, choice is not always a conscious decision of the artist. Most all decisions that are made are instinctual rather that something that needs to be thought about. It is when the artist consciously considers the alternatives that a style defining choice is made. 

Choice plays a very important role in analyzing a work of art. This is because not only the option that was chosen is considered in analyzing the work, but also the alternative options that the artist could have chosen also reflect the stylistic decisions that were made. Style is also described as the way that something is expressed rather than what the artist is expressing. Style depends on a set of existing constraints and alternatives from which the artist chooses. 

Human behavior is subject to constraints, but constraints do not control human behavior. The way that humans manipulate and respond to their environment can be considered style of human behavior. Constraints work the same way with art. They are psychological and cultural elements that affect the style of a work of art, but it is the artist’s choices that actually create style. For example, in writing, that author’s language acts as a constraint, but the way the author chooses to use that language creates style. Cultures can be subdivided into many different categories that affect the way a work of art is analyzed including, the structure of the culture itself, its ideologies, institutions, technologies, semiologies, the analyst’s cultural baggage, and what the analyst is seeking to explain. This can be seen in the development of writing throughout history. Before the printing press, all written things had to be copied and recopied and were therefore not very accessible to the average person. This greatly affected the types of things that were written simply based on who the audience was.

When two different aspects of human activity are controlled by different constraints, they are considered two different parameters. Once two different parameters are distinguished, one is considered external to the other. These parameters have affected the development of style throughout history, but not as much as the internal constraints. That is, the external factors of the world are not as deeply related to the development of style, as are the internal constraints that affect a work.

When analyzing a work of art, one must begin by describing what is present with the use of “brute facts.” Yet, these facts alone are not enough to describe the style of a work of art. An analyst needs to consider these facts with consideration to the constraints that are present and see how they work together to form an experience for the audience. For example, one might look at a book and see a consistent language that being used. One might also notice separate chapters, paragraphs and sentences, but this does not show the stylistic choices the author has made.

As opposed to constraints that govern the natural world, the constraints that govern human behavior change based on time and location. For this reason, it is more complicated to gain a complete knowledge of constraints that govern style. The constraints that govern style relate to each other in a hierarchical manner. This is important because style can be viewed from many different points of view, from art of a whole culture, to a specific period, to a single artist, and even to a single work of art. The three large categories of constraints are laws, rules, and strategies.

Laws are universal and do not change from culture to culture. They can be physical or psychological. The most important ones concerning style are psychological and concern perception and cognition. There are limited ways a person can create or observe a work of art. These are universal and cannot be changed or affected by the artist.

On the other hand, rules are not universal. They are specific to each different culture. Rules are what distinguish some periods from each other, and link others. They are the highest level of stylistic constraints. When composing a written work, the author must choose a language. This will differ between periods and cultures, but the idea of language is universal. Every language contains its own rules to which an author must conform. The author cannot change these rules.  

To develop a theory of style, different kinds of rules need to be distinguished from each other. The three main categories of rules are, dependency rules, contextual rules, and syntactic rules. A dependency rule is one that is dependent on the syntactical rules of a different parameter. Contextual rules depend on the context in which they are found. They are more independent that the dependency rules, but are not fully independent, and are therefore not syntactic rules. Syntactic rules are governed by an independent set of constraints and are a primary parameter.  

Within the possibilities that rules establish, the compositional decisions made by the artist are called strategies. There are a limited number of rules that exist for a specific style, but the possible strategies within those rules are limitless. Every author could compose books throughout eternity without exhausting strategies and without writing the same book twice. For this reason, specific styles are never exhausted. Within a period, the changes are in strategies, whereas the difference between periods show changes in the rules, which create new styles. A change in the rules may allow different strategies that were not possible previously. For example, in antiquity, the creation of drama changes the rules of previous writing and allowed new strategies to be developed. This shows that rule changes may also make new formal structure possible, which, in turn would require new strategies to be developed. Some strategies become highly characteristic of the style in which they are used. For this to happen, a strategy must exert symmetry, coherence, stability, and a certain amount of redundancy.
A rule or strategy may serve as a constraint to a certain group or individual. These compositional choices are also grouped into a hierarchy of three levels: dialect, idiom, and intraopus style.  

A dialect can be observed when a group of artists invokes the same rules or strategies. These can be determined based on location, nationality, or different movements. Social class of the artist or the cultural function of the work of art can also determine a dialect. Take drama for example. When the Greeks created this art form there was a very specific type of stage on which it was performed. They also had aspects to their productions like a choir, all male performers, actors wearing mask, and singing and dancing in the middle of the stage area. If we were to see this nowadays, it might seem out of place or odd. This is because playwrights of ancient Greece were all working within the same dialect.

An idiom can be observed when a specific artist employs certain constraints, rules, or strategies that set their work apart from others’. An artist’s idiom is usually divided historically, that is, their early, middle, and late works. Aristophanes is an example of an artist that did something different from what everyone else was doing. He began writing comedies and farces that reflected life at the time and people that everyone knew of. This was very different from tragic plays that had been done previously.  

Intraopus style is based on a specific work of art done by a single artist. It is noticed when an artist has a specific work that sets itself apart from others because of a different use of constraints, rules or strategies. Lysistrata by Aristophanes was a unique work because it was the first play to represent a female mortal character as completely good and almost exerting manly qualities. This stylistic choice of how he represented this character makes this work stand out from his others.  

An analyst must be very familiar with the style he is analyzing because he needs to know all possible options that were available to the artist, in order that the analyst can know what was possible, and not what the artist presented. If there is a lack of information about the environment a work of art has come out of, the analyst will lose all aesthetic value the piece would have had. Inevitability is also an important aspect in analyzing a work of art. When an analyst says that a specific stylistic choice was inevitable, or logical, he is simply saying that the artist’s choice was optimal and he himself is not able to think of a better stylistic choice. If the analyst is unfamiliar with the style he is looking at, he will not be able to sense inevitability. Because an analyst need be so familiar with the style he is analyzing, it is not surprising that critics often misjudge works of art.    

In conclusion, an artist’s stylistic choices require options, and the reasons for the choices made show intent. The artist having intent demonstrates that he also had a goal, which would be set based on the ideologies of the culture. Therefore, for one to be capable of fully understanding and analyzing a work of art, he needs to be very well educated regarding the culture the work was produced in, and have an understanding of all other options that were available to the artist. Without this, a work could easily be misinterpreted or misjudged.   

So, maybe when we look at any one person's life we need the same goggles as a highly educated art historian analyzing a work of art. For, until we understand the cultural constraints in which all our choices are made I believe we are just as likely to misjudge each other as an untrained eye is to miss a masterpiece.


Marci
~With love

Learning to love the hills

So I have this crazy bicycle tour idea in my head, right? The freedom of the open road, riding as far as I want, and stopping to sight see, visit, hike, write, or camp at my leisure. I am not delusional, I know this is going to be a lot of work for me to get in shape to take a trip like this. It is going to be an uphill journey retraining my muscles but so far I have had nothing but fun. It feels so good to be doing something even though, at times, it literally hurts!  

My dad and I went for a bike ride today. I zip-tied the orange basket to my handlebars for Dixie to sit in and we took off. Dixie decided to jump out of the basket right off the get-go, but figured out pretty quickly that was a bad idea, after that it was smooth sailing. That is, right up until I ran into my dad and hit the pavement!

This is the first bicycle I have ridden with friction shifting, so I am still getting used to it. On our ride today I had the opportunity to play with the shifters on some flat areas and also going up a few hills. When I was a kid and rode my bike all over I avoided hills. I did the same thing when I was in college and occasionally used my bike for commuting. Where I live now I don't have this option. Lincoln City is full of hills, drivers that don't know what they are doing, and a serious lack of bike paths. What better place to train for my bicycle tour?! 

Today I learned I love the hills. It's the hills that let you know you are alive, that make you feel the breath in your chest and the blood in your veins. It was as I walked my dog and bicycle up the hill to my house with my busted knee that I realized, if I can love the hills, nothing can stop me. 

Marci
~With love

The Dream: Bicycle tour for charity

So I got the old '78 Raleigh down off the hook in the garage and started fixing it up a few months ago. Since I have repacked all the bearings, changed out the breaks, got a new saddle, new tires and tubes, and a bunch of other fiddling around. It's not perfect, but its ride-able. I have been working on this plan for a while now and it is time to start putting it into action.

Here is what I want to do:

I want to ride my bike by day, camp by night, and then volunteer in different places using a site like helpx as a way to see the world and help other people. I want to volunteer on organic farms, in backpacker hostels, and in orphanages, depending on where I am.

In addition to this I want to raise money for a cause; placing service dogs with veterans that suffer from PTSD. More to come on the specifics of which organization I choose and why you should give them your money a little later. 

Lastly, I want to do this to prove that anyone can live their dream. I have spent months bed-ridden by immunological chronic pain in the past and almost let myself believe I would never be able to do something like this. Since, I ditched the doctors that warned me against exercise, got off ALL of the multitude of drugs I had been put on, let go of the past, and changed my life.

Another reason I am doing this now, I have reasons for not wanting to "get another job". I have NEVER had an employer that cares about my quality of life. Have you? I will not pretend for 40 hours a week that it doesn't matter. I am ready to forge my own trail, find another way to live, see the world, and do everything I can to make it a better place.

Who's coming with me?! Oh, you can't? Well you can still help!

http://www.gofundme.com/1vuqw4

Marci
~With love

My Satori

Satori - one's first glimpse of enlightenment

Let's jump back into my eight year old mind and I will share my experience.

One day I was just thinking about who-knows-what and it suddenly hit me out of  nowhere,  "Have I ever not been thinking? Could I stop if I wanted to? " Being eight I didn't contemplate it too much, I just gave it a shot.

I had a few moments with fleeting thoughts and then it happened - a few brief seconds of no-thought. It was a feeling of depth that I can only describe as great peace; as though my soul had a second to breathe. 

As quickly as this state came over my mind it was rushed out by my mind's sudden realization, "Oh my god I did it, and it was so easy, and that felt so cool, I wasn't even sure it was possible, woohoo!"   

I became angry. I felt my mind had stolen this wonderful experience from me. 

Read that last sentence one more time. (How many of me are in my head?)

This experience forever changed my perspective on the human mind. Occasionally I would attempt to go back to that place of no-thought, but I was never truly able to clear my mind. As time went on it became more difficult. I haven't by any means spent my whole life trying to figure out what I experienced in this moment of my childhood, but it has always remained in my consciousness on some level. I believe this was the beginning of my path to enlightenment.

Enlightenment is simply defined as the end of suffering. Do you have an aversion to the word itself? If so think about this - a word is just a symbol for an idea, something much deeper. Avert the word and you forever miss the beautiful universal experience it points to. I believe we are each on our own path to enlightenment with Life handing you every experience you need to reach beyond the illusion of our world of form.

I reconnected with that feeling of no-thought when I was about 22. I found it in my first yoga class. It was the first time I realized that what I had experienced as a child so briefly, yet so quickly and intensely, was a meditative state. That was two years ago. I have since practiced many types of meditation and yoga and have achieved all sorts of thoughtless states. I also do my best to practice mindfulness in everything I do. I keep a close eye on my thoughts and know never to take them too seriously.  This practice has changed my quality of life.

You want peace? Here is my recipe -

1. Become aware of your thoughts.
2. Pay attention to your thoughts, are they helping or hindering?
3. Whenever you have the opportunity, become still, watch your body breathe

That's pretty much it. Do it for a while and be amazed at the space that starts to appear between thoughts.

If you think this is crazy or impossible your thoughts are winning. Give it a shot.

Marci
~With love

P.S. I am sharing the inner workings of my mind with the hopes that you may share yours. Please comment, good or bad I want to know what you think! One of my goals here is to connect with people on a deeper level so help me out ya'll!

BEACH TRIP!

Beautiful, right? This was the day before yesterday - in Lincoln City, Oregon in the middle of JANUARY! I love the beach, and I love sharing - so naturally enough - I am going to share a wonderful day at the beach with you. Enjoy!

The shadow is me and that cute little hairy thing is my dog Dixie; she loves the beach as much as I do!

There were a few special occasions documented - these are some of my favorite parts of visiting the beach. One thing I have noticed from all my years of beach combing is people tend to write positive things in the sand. 

~

We write in the sand 

Much differently than stone

Wind and waves claim it

~

Fun Story Interjection Time!

So... the next few pictures are of the D' River and what I would call the D' river estuary. It is a pretty small estuary though, seeing as the D' River is the shortest river in the world!

Here's where this gets to be fun. My best friend came to visit and saw the "D' River - World's shortest river" sign and flipped!

"Liars!" She claimed, as she proceeded to explain to me that her home town of Great Falls, Montana actually has the world's shortest river and we are all a bunch of fibbers. We would occasionally discuss the topic when it came up but never really did any investigating to see who's home town was really the record holder. 

Well I happened to be reading the Oregon Coast Today recently and came across an article on this exact topic! I'ma do a brief recap - and Halsey, you better read this!

Here's the story - D' River held the record measured at some 420 feet or so. Some kids in Montana measured their little river and wrote to Guinness and stole the record measuring in around 200 ft. Some people in Lincoln City said "F u little kids!" and decided to take this a little more seriously - the measured at high tide and low tide and found its distance varied from about 120'-420' or so.

The end result being.... Guinness dropped the category for world records seeing as the record holder literally changes with the tides.

So here is the D' River meeting up with the Pacific Ocean at reasonably high tide. Shorts river or not - its pretty!

And here are the last few pictures before my phone died. Sorry you all missed the amazing sunset that followed - but I thoroughly enjoyed it as I walked home. Next time I'll get some of the sunset and who knows, maybe more of me than my shadow!

                 

Marci

-With love

The Beginning

Heads up - my goal here is to get in the habit of writing. I am not as concerned about the quality of what I am throwing up here. I just need to start doing something.

I am a huge project jumper. I am reading about 6 books right now, working on at least three new hobbies, want to move everywhere in the world all at once and learn everything there is to learn.

Maybe it goes without saying - I have a difficult time making decisions and lack a bit of focus.

As my first entry I am just going to throw out some ideas of things I may write about -

• Who is Marci?
• beach stuff
• things people don't like to talk about
• Travel!
• my dog 
• my cats
• meditation
• human communication
• philosophy
• nature
• drugs
• SOCIETY
• books
• whatever else my mind can wander off and find!

I have no idea what I am doing, but I am ready to find out!

Marci
With love -