Adventures of an Urban Pastoral Girl

This urban landscape is my pasture.

The essence of urban pastoral living is the appreciation and expression of simple beauty, soul & earthiness.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

—Thomas Edison

It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action.

—O. H. Mowrer

Flow = a kind of intense focus and crisp sense of clarity where you forget yourself, lose track of time, and feel like you’re part of something larger.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi via Brain Pickings

Overlooking the very spot where we said our vows surrounded by so many people we love #gratitude #thetreeisstillgrowing

Overlooking the very spot where we said our vows surrounded by so many people we love #gratitude #thetreeisstillgrowing

Make a wish  (at Fort Newport)

Make a wish (at Fort Newport)

#fragglerock #superdog

#fragglerock #superdog

Take a peek

Take a peek

Good coffee with my peeps (at Tandem Coffee Roasters)

Good coffee with my peeps (at Tandem Coffee Roasters)

Authors of Our Character

As the authors, rather than the victims, of our character, we must continually revise ourselves. When you see something in yourself that needs correcting, own it one hundred percent. As you do so, you will start to catch the behavior first afterwards, then in the act, then when you see it coming, until before you know it, you will be laughing at yourself that you used to fall for that old trap, and smiling inside that you are past it.

- Gil Hedley, Integral Anatomy

Pretty nest holder

Pretty nest holder