on the beach in big sur. a little happy moment. a happy memory. and fun new reality!
December 14, 2007
December 12, 2007
Rainbow Goddess
oh, goodness. all my talk about my inner goddess lately has made me laugh. but, now i at least know the color of that inner goddess. i am, the Rainbow goddess...."The RAINBOW Goddess represents all aspects of the color spectrum.Those who are Rainbowed have the deepest significance to people throughout all the phases of their life. They have more influence on those around them then one can possibly imagine. They often help others by strengthening, soothing and inspiring them. "
December 10, 2007
A High Price for Healthy Food
oh, things liek this really get me! i agree that whole foods and healthfood stores seem expensive. this article deatils the cost of eating, calorie-per-calorie "health food" such as veggies and fruit, in place of twinkies or ppizza. sure, you get way more calories in twinkies. also you get more chemicals and artificial colors and polysaturated fats and other things our bodies don't love. i understand that poorer households have a less healthy diet and buy more of this "un-healthful" food. but how do we address this? how do we make people realize that buying beans and lentils and whole grains in bulk is actually very chep? and very healthy? how can we make healthy food a prioirty for all people, rather than percieved as a luxury for the welathy?
A High Price for Healthy Food - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog
A High Price for Healthy Food - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog
December 5, 2007
an improptu trip!
So, i just decided to go to San Francisco. My good friend D lives there and for the past year has been inviting me out for a visit. I’ve always been too busy on the weekends when there were cheap tickets...but finally this weekend I was just like hell with it, I am going anyway! (Especially since he is moving in a few weeks and this was my last chance to visit.) So I did. I bought a $180 ticket Thursday night and left work early on Friday, drove through a snow storm en route to Salt Lake City, flew out of Salt Lake that night and after a short and very comfortable flight on Jet Blue (here is where I just want to say that I really enjoyed my flight with Jet Blue, there was so much leg room and they have great snacks and great music) arrived in San Francisco in time for dinner. Daniel met me at the airport and the second I saw him I got SO nervous…like, what am I doing here with this guy-friend-whom-I-kinda-have-a-secret-crush-on?! Ok, let's be honest...I have felt that we connected since we met oh that long time ago at Rally 2006. But when I walked out of security he hugged me and picked me up off the floor and spun me around in this big warm hug and we both just laughed and laughed all at the same time. Then we drove into town and went to a total hippie-cute-love-fest-raw-food restaurant. Which was surprisingly delicious. Then we walked around and got ice-cream from a locally owned, local dairy ice-cream parlor.
We were up early in the morning Saturday for a day of exploring the city. San Francisco is so FUN…those of you who’ve been I guess already know that, but it was my first time and it was great! We walked around a lot and did some shopping and café-ing and laughing and serious talking and more laughing and hand holding and visited Golden Gate Park and walked along the trail that runs along the bay. As we were walking along the trail, we walked out on a rock outcropping to look over the ocean, and there was a huge walking labyrinth someone had made with stones. We just started walking through it and after about 10 minutes of silence and not even looking at each other we got to the middle where there was a little offering type rock and we had just picked some flowers and added them to the small pile of flowers and coins. While we were standing there, in a very comfortable hug, D said "Ilana, I want to be with you when I move to Santa Fe."...yes, he did. And I was like "well, that would be wonderful, I’d like that." And we kissed and we both just started smiling and the sun, quite literally, came out from behind a cloud. And we walked out of the labyrinth and watched the sunset on the ocean and went out for Thai food and then met up with his friends at the yacht club to listen to some fun little music. There were all kinds of freaky-hippie-hipster types at the music thing, but they were all so friendly and lovely…it was great.
Then it was another early morning Sunday and we picked up a rental car (which after 15 mniute we realized smelled horribly like puke…but we were already out of the city so there was no turnign back) so we could drive down the coast to Big Sur where he had to look at a protected property for work (D works at a land trust and does most of their monitoring work). It was GORGEOUS. We stopped at a few beaches and had lunch along the way and explored the tide pools and sang along with Van Morrison and ate fresh oranges and dark chocolate and talked about our families and what we wanted in life and our plans for traveling. And we hiked a little on this gorgeous protected property (the one he had to visit for work) at sunset when the clouds were rolling in and the darkness settled around us when we reached the top of this little meadow overlooking the mountains to the east and the ocean to the west. After the visit to the property, we then checked into a totally beautiful hotel that the land trust staff (and guests, ahem, me) get to stay at when monitoring the easement. It was SO perfect…our room was gorgeous (we were in the Tree House) and had the world’s most comfortable bed and were up in the redwoods but with a view of the ocean. And then went to bed and fell fast asleep until 12:30 am…when we had to wake up to drive 10 miles down the coast. We had a 1am reservation at hot springs at a retreat center that only opens the hot springs to the public from 1-3am. There were these gorgeous outdoor tubs, literally on the edge of the cliff about 50 feet above the ocean.
And yesterday morning we woke up early to a soft sunrise and took a leisurely morning breakfast in the all glass restaurant over the ocean and then D had to meet with the ranch manager for work stuff and i took a hike in the redwoods and along the cliff edge. And then we drove back along the coast, having excellent, soul exposing, heart opening conversations and stopping at a couple beaches to run in the edge of the waves and laugh. And he dropped me off at the airport and that was that. Or that was the beginning I should say of something so much bigger. We were both so happy, so happy. And all weekend we talked, not just about fun things, but about serious things and our own pasts and things that bother us and our fears and our hopes and desires and our student loans and deep loves and our spiritualities and families and our jobs and career goals and desires for kids and real love and really just opened up about anything. It was so, so nice…I can’t even describe it. And really, this weekend, was so great, it almost seemed unreal. D kept pinching me and saying, “Hey, Ilana, this is real! You are here! There is the ocean!” wow.
It almost felt funny to be having such a wonderful…and slightly romantic time…with this good friend, especially since it’s just been a couple months since Greg and I broke up. But Greg and I have nothing to do with D and I and I realized it’s ok for me to move on…then I was like “hey, this is my life, this is awesome, I need to accept all this wonderfulness and just go with it!” I am falling for a dear, sweet, deep, funny, intelligent, witty, intense, good looking man!
We were up early in the morning Saturday for a day of exploring the city. San Francisco is so FUN…those of you who’ve been I guess already know that, but it was my first time and it was great! We walked around a lot and did some shopping and café-ing and laughing and serious talking and more laughing and hand holding and visited Golden Gate Park and walked along the trail that runs along the bay. As we were walking along the trail, we walked out on a rock outcropping to look over the ocean, and there was a huge walking labyrinth someone had made with stones. We just started walking through it and after about 10 minutes of silence and not even looking at each other we got to the middle where there was a little offering type rock and we had just picked some flowers and added them to the small pile of flowers and coins. While we were standing there, in a very comfortable hug, D said "Ilana, I want to be with you when I move to Santa Fe."...yes, he did. And I was like "well, that would be wonderful, I’d like that." And we kissed and we both just started smiling and the sun, quite literally, came out from behind a cloud. And we walked out of the labyrinth and watched the sunset on the ocean and went out for Thai food and then met up with his friends at the yacht club to listen to some fun little music. There were all kinds of freaky-hippie-hipster types at the music thing, but they were all so friendly and lovely…it was great.
Then it was another early morning Sunday and we picked up a rental car (which after 15 mniute we realized smelled horribly like puke…but we were already out of the city so there was no turnign back) so we could drive down the coast to Big Sur where he had to look at a protected property for work (D works at a land trust and does most of their monitoring work). It was GORGEOUS. We stopped at a few beaches and had lunch along the way and explored the tide pools and sang along with Van Morrison and ate fresh oranges and dark chocolate and talked about our families and what we wanted in life and our plans for traveling. And we hiked a little on this gorgeous protected property (the one he had to visit for work) at sunset when the clouds were rolling in and the darkness settled around us when we reached the top of this little meadow overlooking the mountains to the east and the ocean to the west. After the visit to the property, we then checked into a totally beautiful hotel that the land trust staff (and guests, ahem, me) get to stay at when monitoring the easement. It was SO perfect…our room was gorgeous (we were in the Tree House) and had the world’s most comfortable bed and were up in the redwoods but with a view of the ocean. And then went to bed and fell fast asleep until 12:30 am…when we had to wake up to drive 10 miles down the coast. We had a 1am reservation at hot springs at a retreat center that only opens the hot springs to the public from 1-3am. There were these gorgeous outdoor tubs, literally on the edge of the cliff about 50 feet above the ocean.
And yesterday morning we woke up early to a soft sunrise and took a leisurely morning breakfast in the all glass restaurant over the ocean and then D had to meet with the ranch manager for work stuff and i took a hike in the redwoods and along the cliff edge. And then we drove back along the coast, having excellent, soul exposing, heart opening conversations and stopping at a couple beaches to run in the edge of the waves and laugh. And he dropped me off at the airport and that was that. Or that was the beginning I should say of something so much bigger. We were both so happy, so happy. And all weekend we talked, not just about fun things, but about serious things and our own pasts and things that bother us and our fears and our hopes and desires and our student loans and deep loves and our spiritualities and families and our jobs and career goals and desires for kids and real love and really just opened up about anything. It was so, so nice…I can’t even describe it. And really, this weekend, was so great, it almost seemed unreal. D kept pinching me and saying, “Hey, Ilana, this is real! You are here! There is the ocean!” wow.
It almost felt funny to be having such a wonderful…and slightly romantic time…with this good friend, especially since it’s just been a couple months since Greg and I broke up. But Greg and I have nothing to do with D and I and I realized it’s ok for me to move on…then I was like “hey, this is my life, this is awesome, I need to accept all this wonderfulness and just go with it!” I am falling for a dear, sweet, deep, funny, intelligent, witty, intense, good looking man!
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