Travel Reflections

I learn the most when I travel.

When pilgrimage is my home.

When my ankles are cold and weak.

When the bottoms of my boots are cracked.

When my calves are bruised.

When my outfit is alternated by a different jacket.

When bars nuts and fruit are my stomach's closest friends.

When my eyes find no rest.

When I wander more than I hold still.

How my heart melts when I travel.

How I find refuge in my pilgrimage.

Manhattan

Right after leaving the Metropolitan Museum of Art, going out in the New York snow after 13 years post-childhood dwellings in which snow became my purest memory of what it meant to be a child in Brooklyn and the unsurpassed symbol of purity, the snowflakes were falling on my head, and I looked up, and I reached my gloved hand out, and time held still, and I, in my romanticism, wanted to bring down my hand and stare at my glove in a place of reflection on the beauty of the season of winter, and not surprisingly so, there was such a sweet surprise that embraced my finger, manifesting in that stillness an intricacy and beauty of this planet, and perhaps these thousands words are not all captured in this picture, but that is what it means to me.

bed

For you go to bed.

And you pull those sheets over your head.

Are you satisfied?

Has your soul died?

Are you feeling empty?

It’s easy to live a day and not embrace grace.

The day is done.

The night is spent.

And where has your time went?

Did you spend money for your own favor?

Or did you bless with your labor?

Are you living for yourself?

It’s easy to not cherish what will perish.

You stretch yourself out to get your needs met.

Your needs are met in one.

What have you become?

You’ll see you were wrong.

You’ll cease singing your song.

And maybe you’ll change.

Obligation to Humanity

I have an obligation to the earth.

To humanity.

To you.

And I must share what is put on my heart.

My tongue.

My lips.

My pen.

For it is a poison to keep something to be shared within.

It is an indoor air quality hazard.

“There is a pertinent reason I am on this earth.”

I must share.

I must share.

I will share.

Crusade and Consciousness

First we must understand the big elephant in the room before we try to move it out of the room.

Recognize.

Understand.

Contemplate.

Have a consciouness.

Be awake.

Observe.

Absorb all that is around you.

Then gird up your lions.

Attack.

And change it.

But first notice what needs to be changed within.

Then crusade.

Charity and Hope visit my place!

So Charity and Hope are at my apartment in Warren College right now.

Charity is to my left. She is typing on her laptop. She is currently surrounded by a mixture of watermelon in a bowl, plates from various food entrees, cookie crumbs and leftovers on a plate, vegan cookie wrappers, a calculus book, Subway leftovers, two water bottles, an unopened herbal popcorn bag, and some notebooks and other things academia (mmmmm!)

Hope is to my right, all laid out and ready for a nap. She likes to sing with the music I'm playing every now and then. We are listening to Karen O and the Kids (Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack). She looks really cute when she sleeps :)

Tonight I made a run to Earl's Place and bought 6 different kinds of vegan cookies and organic Himalayan Green Tea (yum!) Tonight our chosen prey was Phenomenal Pumpkin Spice, Coconut Macaroon, and Double Chocolate Decadence. The girls ate it with some good ol OJ while I had some tea. Talk about delicious!

I love you girls!

Til next time,

Jessica

New Job

So I have recently become a member of Housing, Dining, and Hospitality at UCSD working as an EcoNaut. We will be posting blogs weekly and would love for you to check them out and become a follower. Thanks! and here's the link:

http://ucsdlivingoncampus.blogspot.com/

-JessB.