The gods say, when you really want to do something, just do it. You have to go with your heart.
Winter brings changes...I cut bangs. Funny how such an seemingly simple decision can be so monumental. It took so long to make. Only when I decided not to cut off 10 inches to donate to the kids with cancer could I make the appointment. (Sorry kids.) Then I gave the lady at the shop a hard time when I didn't immediately like the looks of it. Not a really hard time, I just made a sad face. Then she helped me out the best she could- she straightened it with a flat iron, blew dry the rest of it, added more layers, and then curled it all up like a movie star. It looked beautiful! I am so lucky to have such beautiful hair. Maybe that's the lesson in all this. Apprec

1st october
The weather is changing here.It's October first and as if on cue, the air seems drier, stretched thinner. The light is wavering between the heavy thickness of summer humidity but leaning towards the ether it becomes towards Christmas. It's the little changes we have to savor in Los Angeles. There's an autumn smell in the air, and the sun beats warm on my back. I wonder what it'd be like to live in a place that actually gets cold.Last year at this time I was packing, (at least mentally) ecstatic and rolling in golden waves of success, freshly graduated and looking forwards to the (one of many) trip of a lifetime! Packing

30 september
It's my birthday!It's the day that always made me hold my breath just a little bit, in expectation of what goodies lay in wait... A day for surprises, friends, family, birthday cake and everybody singing for you!It's the ultimate in ego-satisfying self-gratification, excusable and unashamed!September 30th- the day I made my mom a mother, the day I waited for all year, and it was always over so quick. It's a day of fall colors, of school beginning, it feels as much a part of my identity as my name...And it's today!It doesn't matter what I did, or what I'm doing... What matter is where I am and where I'm going... Does tha