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Jessica’s Daily Affirmations

Becoming an Adult

Starr has declared that this is the summer that she will become an adult. I didn’t say anything, but listened to her musings.

She figures that she needs to become an adult before graduating from college. Before embarking on her career path and then possibly going to graduate school. Not to mention having a family.

How do you become an adult? According to Starr, you look at each decision that you make and consider “what would be the adult choice here?” before making a decision. From clothing purchases–will this outfit be appropriate for work?, to decorations–is this an item that I might want in my future home?, financial decisions and personal choices.

She figures that after a few months, the adult thing will have kicked in and she will be well on her way to an awesome future.

I know that we were just chatting and that she was just looking forward to graduating and getting her life on track, but it made me smile. I don’t remember ever having those thoughts.

Just as soon as I said that I didn’t have an mp3 for The Tallest Man on Earth, I run across one! So I thought I would share it today:

mp3: “Burden of Tomorrow” – The Tallest Man on Earth
Wild Hunt
The Tallest Man on Earth-MySpace

Snow in May

This is what we woke up to today!

It will melt fast, but this wet heavy snow has already taken many tree branches around town this morning.

Tallest Man on Earth

Swedish native, Kristian Matsson, a.k.a. The Tallest Man on Earth: I will be the first to admit that his voice immediately stepped all over my nerves. But then I couldn’t stop listening. It seeped into cracks I didn’t know existed.

I don’t have any mp3s to share, but I found these videos. I am in love with the first one, the song, the music store, the owner of the shop. All of it combines into something pretty amazing. I have watched it more times than I care to admit.

Tallest Man on Earth – The Gardener – A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

One catch: after soundcheck the day before, Tallest Man’s guitars were locked inside the NYC music venue, Town Hall, where he’d be playing later that night with Bon Iver. Solution: we’d have to shoot somewhere with a decent supply of guitars that he might borrow. A fan of music of all kinds, Jeff, the awesome, museum-quality proprietor of the legendary Music Inn on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village was happy to oblige.

This second video is longer and has three songs including the one above, but I like it very much…and have just stumbled onto NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts. Why didn’t anyone tell me that this kind of awesomeness was going on??

Tallest Man on Earth NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

I Won’t be Found, The Gardener, Pistol Dreams

Dragonfly’s Favorites: This Tree

Located just off the back deck, you can see this tree as you walk in the front door, or from the living room/dining room. In Spring, it blooms bright and pink.

All that pink makes me very happy indeed! The picture from inside my living room doesn’t really convey how pretty it really is…all that light pouring in the door washes out the color in the photograph. Or maybe it’s my dirty windows?

Message Received

Sometime after I told Starr that I thought the Peach Milkshake advertised on the side of her drink cup from Chick-fil-A sounded good, I found this:

May 4, 2010

It’s not my photo (credits are below), but this bright beautiful picture reminds me of Sunny. I am at a loss for words today, I can’t believe that it has been 3 years. I miss her every single day. My love and prayers are with her family who miss her even more.

Snowy White, originally uploaded by mik5156.

Embrace Life

Both Sunny and Starr were wearing their seat belts, as they always did, at the time of their accident. Unfortunately, Sunny’s seat belt did not prevent tragedy. Starr’s may well have saved her life.

This video has been circling around my Facebook friends this week. It is beautifully done and worthy of passing along:

An original approach to road safety advertising from the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership.

Always wear your seat belt.

Always.

Twisted

Solid Potato Salad – Ross Sisters (1944)

The real show starts about a minute in…enjoy!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Wait What?!

It serves me right for mentioning the wonderful weather yesterday!