Author: approximately

Wilco always takes me back to early college days, long drives, summer afternoons and evenings, windows down just…living.

This album is no exception, except it is now — and it is going to remind me of these days, right before the college chapter closes and I begin again…

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Also, I saw this guy today. Made me smile.

I am in love with these fall days — dreaming of the perpetual state of autumn.

01 :: Cute building spotted during late afternoon stroll, Moorhead

02 :: Side of our garage (my studio!) + fall colors

03 :: Spent all afternoon working on Project BFA, namely 3D type I’m preparing

Enjoy these days, they are so very numbered —

xo

j

When I see this picture — taken today — I feel as though I can look straight past 15 years and see myself at eight years old again. I can imagine what I’d be wearing and how greasy my hair was and how my voice sounded. I remember what I looked forward to then — recess and running around the neighborhood, building forts and reading Goosebumps books. I remember who I looked up to then: my family, my older sister, my second grade teacher, my next door neighbor. 

Yet it is so hard to believe that I am the same person. I was eating dinner at home last night and had this strange moment where I wondered, “How did I get to this moment?” Trying to backtrack through each year and decision that lead me to last night, eating my spaghetti at a house in Moorhead while typing a paper. I remembered at eight years old I never bought my own groceries, paid my bills or had a real agenda past school getting out at 2:45, now I have all these amendments and appendages to my life. I guess it was just a moment of awareness, a realization that while I feel stuck in these past few years, I’ve actually come quite the distance.

But isn’t this the common thread of each day? To look back at those days before it?

Flowers from boyfriend…

Beautiful best friend coming to visit…

and meeting the sensational, inspirational Dr. Tammaro for lunch!

It was a super laid-back weekend. We always have a flux of visitors at our house so things stay interesting. 

New developments in life that I may have to introduce soon…until then, I am happy and productive and things are smooth and calm…

Time is a wonderful healer and seasons have a way of revival.