functionality and aesthetics

the coolest people i've met in the "wild" make their everythings (from shelter to eating bowls) with both functionality and aesthetics in mind... for a beautiful and useful life

waking

today i woke up

totally rejuvenated

completely inspired

ridiculously excited

for...

something

i'm not sure what it is

the moon is full on sunday

she is growing right now

i've got ideas in my head and

i'm patching my skirt and cleaning my room and redesigning my company's website

what is so exciting?

the wind is changing

music is playing

and the song sparrows are waking up earlier than ever

letters to the wind

it's been a month now

two more to go

and then?

i don't know

but during the next two months

the wind rests steady in one cove

and you can mail letters to her there :)

this is china

look deeper

school of life

he wanted a photo together! and he asked me to mail it to him. he's not familiar with email or digital cameras, but he knows roots, shoots, buds, and blossoms more than anyone i have yet met here. maybe i will go back to yangshuo one day and keep sponging up wisdom and knowledge. what do you do when someone you really want to learn from speaks a different dialect though? :)

this is medicine

yangshuo, china. 3rd generation "grass medicine doctor." all the herbs from the local mountains, used to treat everything from the common cold to the uncommon cancer. his father is in his 80's but looks like a 60 year old. his children are practicing grass medicine healing arts too. this is medicine.

this is life!

check it out. it's ban lan root. this is life essence.

this is life

my happiest moments are still in nature. here in the shenzhen city base camp, my favorite friend and ally is highly not present. sit spots are typically on the 9th floor roof, with a grand view of the whole city. rows and rows of windows. so, i get to search for the green goodness within myself. oh, goody.

 

the flowers and trees and plants here are amazing.

(so are you!)