Here. Now. Looking forward.

I am trying. Trying. To live in the moment. To be here. Just here. Right now. Looking forward. 

But I can't deny the fact that there's something in the air lately that catches me off-guard, a slight breeze of restlessness that wears on the sandstone arches of my heart with surreptitious persistence. 

What to do about that? What to do? 

Math

Have you seen this video yet?  Such a beautiful chance encounter with nature, simultaneously simple and breathtakingly complex. Her expression at the end is the best. The amazement. The speechless moment where you try to grasp what just happened.

True to my analytical nature, I just can't help but think that somehow there is lots and lots of math behind it all. That if you could find the algorithm for that, maybe we would have found the solution for world peace.

I knew I should have paid more attention in calculus.

But my mind was most likely out in the canoe.
Consumed with the wonder of it all.



Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

Brunch, insanity and champagne.

So ya, its been a while. But blogging hasn't been at the top of my life's agenda lately. Because, you see, I moved. Again. So that's what, FOUR times in the past two years? Who can keep track? And while this move doesn't include new alpine vistas, it does come with a bit of increased elevation, and a HUGE kitchen. Which I put to use this morning. I think every new living space should be christened with Hollandaise sauce and waffles, don't you?

And nothing will boost your confidence like conquering the Hollandaise sauce. Seriously. I'm ready to conquer the world. Right after this champagne induced nap, that is.

If you're curious, the Waffle of Insane Greatness is, indeed, insanely great. And INSANE is what I have possibly become. Because in between moving all my worldly possessions and being out of town two of the last four weekends, guess what I did. I went and registered for an insanely long Nordic ski race. One that generally happens during an insanely cold day in February.

That's right, this winter I'll be getting back to my Nordic roots with 9,000 other crazies at the American Birkebeiner.

And you know what's really insane? I'm actually excited about it. An endurance event that I might enjoy training for? Whoa.

So things are a happening around here. New scenery, new energy. Funny how the lack of blogging usually means there's lots happening to blog about. So if I'm not hanging around the blog much this winter you can find me on a groomed trail somewhere, probably by headlamp, burning off all the Hollandaise sauce.

Yay, winter!

Can't talk about running if you're not

So let's change the subject, shall we...music? Yes? OK. I am completely obsessed with The Civil Wars lately. Obsessed. If only I could be so obsessed about, oh, I don't know....RUNNING?!

Ya, never.

Places I will NEVER be: http://blog.whereisthecool.com/post/6090840075

I will probably have nightmares about this picture. Nightmares.

Visual Deliciousness, etc.

BON IVER "Holocene" from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

Stuff like this leaves me spellbound. It courts my inner wanderlust in ways that would lead to shotgun weddings in the physical world. It lures the dreamer in me out from under the capture of a heavily scheduled work week and lets her dance atop the netting like a fallen tightrope walker happy to be free of the pressure.

Happy Friday!

Its a long road home....

...literally. I'm actually excited to be in one place for a bit. Until the next trip, enjoy a bit of someone else's:

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.