• Find your medicine and use it
• Drink tea
• Pet dog's tummies
• Find your flow
• Remember your boundaries
• Move
• Hug people when you meet them, hug people when you say goodbye
• "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent"
• Root
• See all, hear all, feel all, take in nothing

Sounds

• Dance Yrself Clean coming from Bekins Porch
• Buffalo calls
• Screen doors slamming, especially at Camp Rim Rock
• Hands slapping rock
• Crickets on an east coast summer night
• Thousands of voices singing together at a concert
• Tires crunching on gravel, alerting you that someone is home
• The guitar riff in Perth by Bon Iver
• Wonderful Everyday by Chance the Rapper
• Bagpipes
• Harmonicas, especially in empty rooms, or by campfires
• Z or Sari singing around complex
• The ocean
• Dad saying “hi sweetie pie!”
• Ukelele echoes in an elevator

• Octopi
• Hot lemon water
• Signs advertising a gluten-free product but discovering that said gluten-free product is not actually there
• Having a cough
• Group work
• Rough cut edges on books
• When you're walking perpendicular to diagonally parked cars
• Miso soup
• Olives
• When people get mad when you don't say hi to them or even see them
• When people turn down the music in the car to talk and then don't turn it back up
• Looking for parking spaces
• Choosing shoe sizes
• Asking Lavran questions
• Being pee shy
• Getting my hair wet in the shower but not...

• Nadia, Kristie, & I all stopping our conversation and immediately screaming as we drive around the corner to see Crater Lake for the first time

Well now the ocean speaks and spits and I can hear it from the interstate, And I’m screaming at my brother on a cell phone he’s far away, I’m saying nothing in the past or future ever will feel like today, Until we’re parking in an alley, Just hoping that our shit is safe. -Another Travelin' Song by Bright Eyes

I would trade it all in again for a nice stroll in your skin, just to cure what ails. -To Cure What Ails by Shakey Graves

We set controls for the heart of the sun; one of the ways that we show our age. -All My Friends by LCD Soundsystem

And the rent is too high living here between reasons to live, Where you can't sleep alone, and your memories groan, and the borders of night start to give. -A New Name for Everything by The Weakerthans

Who are you to tell me I can't love you the way mothers love daughters? The way Mary was closest to Joseph & babies is clos...

• The Mama at Chow inviting me to sit with their family and giving me a mom hug
• That group at table three having me say a prayer with them
• Going to Share Your Flair at the Slackline Compound, running into people I know, and seeing two guys from the party the next morning after work because apparently one of them lives behind Chow
• Sitting on the big couch with Meg and Emily at Share Your Flair and Meg telling me it's amazing how much I've tapped into the community in such a short time
• Katelyn at the People's Apothecary saying "let me know if you need any help - but I know you know your way around this shop" and the next time saying "wait...you've only been here for three months?"
• Jason at Palate telling me it feels like I’ve been here forever
• Running into Nicholas at Dudley's while I...

• Slip resistant shoes
• CBD salve
• More Zuri CBD tincture
• Snow boots
• CBD tea (Buddha peppermint)
• Milk thistle tincture MADE THAT SHIT
• New pillows, pillowcases
• Rings
• Foam roller
• Uni Posca markers
• More Mildliners
• Larger gemstones
• Birkenstocks
• More wool socks
• Dog bed for Sadie
• Massage table
• New tires
• Chacos
• Bath bombs/salts etc. (LUSH)
• New Macbook

• The beaches of Duck, North Carolina
• Barstools in the Jimreivats kitchen
• Duke fire escape
• Bekins roof
• Holt living room during a really good community meeting
• Buttermilk Country
• The Green Church hot springs
• God's Thumb in Lincoln City
• Liberty Park in Salt Lake City
• Sunnyside Community House on Wednesday Nights in Portland
• BLM west of Terrebonne, Oregon
• Randy's grandparents' house in Encinitas, California
• Swimming holes in the creeks and rivers surrounding Asheville, North Carolina

• Skipped a grade / went to 2nd grade in the middle of 1st grade
• Saw something on broadway
  • (I think it was the Lion King)
  • (But I don't remember)
• Went to summer camp
• Volunteered at many soup kitchens
• Jetskiid!
• Made doodle posters with Julianna every summer
• Ridden a motorcycle
• Gotten so many free fudge samples that I didn't even need to actually buy any fudge
• Walked all the way to the Pier from Seahawk
• Crowd surfed
• Created awesome stop motions
• Had a plethora of random nights (though I always need more)

To Read

• The Terrible by Yrsa Daley Ward
• Too Much and Never Enough
• Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve by Stanley Rosenburg
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
• Life on Land by Emilie Conrad
• It Didn't Start With You by Mark Wolynn
• Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
• The Source of Self Regard by Toni Morrison
• Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• Beyond the Periphery of the Skin by Silvia Frederici
• Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein
• The Wild Edge of Sorrow
• Drawdown by Paul Hawken

• Makes me want to dance: Pickin' On Series - Oppression by the Human Experience
• To drive to: Alone on the Sea by Steel Train
• I'll never tire of: Ocean by John Butler Trio
• I'd like to be played at my wedding: Into the Mystic by Van Morrison
• Is a cover from another artist: Long Black Veil (Live) by Dave Matthews Band
• Is from the year I was born: All I Wanna Do by Sheryl Crow
• Has many meanings to me: Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads
• Moves me forward: Don't Stop by Fleetwood Mac
• I think everyone should listen to: Places by You Me and Apollo
• Is from a band who's no longer together: Ahead by a Century by The Tragically Hip
• Is by an artist whose voice I love: Resil...

• No:
  • Processed foods
  • Dairy (for a while)
• Probiotic (therapeutic then maintenance)
• Bone broth
• Juices
• Hydro colon therapy

• Yoga Studios
  • Wild Thing (with free month pass)
  • The Yoga Lab ($30 for 30)
  • Tula Movement ($30 for 30)
  • Naji's Yoga ($30 for 30)
• Hempies
• The Open Book
• Silver Otter
• Cosmic Depot
• Gypsy Junk
• 541 Trends
• Fettle Botanic/The Peoples Apothecary
• Locavore
• 9th Street Village food carts
• Somewhere That's Green
• The Workhouse (Jewelry?)
• Bliss Crystals
• Blissful Heart
• Back to Bend Ecstatic Dance
• Coffee shops

• Salt Lake City
• LA
• Oakland
• Ashland, OR - The Dance Space
• Bend, OR
• Portland - Mindful Meltdown
• Portland (the weird small one that I left)
• San Diego - Dance Church Encinitas
• Santa Cruz
• Asheville, NC
• DC

Aquarius Sun

• Refusing to follow the crowd
• Intellectual independence - liberal and progressive, yet fixed
• Unpredictable and contradictory
• Loyal but detached, friendly but aloof, outgoing but loves alone time, equally enjoys travel and time alone
• Teller of truth and wisdom
• Seeker of knowledge and breadth of vision, interested particularly in the unusual
• Objective in judgment
• Sometimes distrustful of emotion
• Great at dealing with people and personalities from all walks of life
• Strong belief in the right to be yourself, for yourself and others
• Future-oriented
• Great at plotting up ideas and dreams, but not as into the hard work to make it happen