This song is nothing extraordinary and really is exactly what it is – a simple song. I am certainly not sure what is going on with me lately, but that the line about things getting rough when you’re going it alone struck a chord with me. (Well, at least it did with my tear ducts.)

 

Because I know a million of you (yes, that many people read this blog, of course!) care about my new love, James Blake, I figured you’d want to know that I’ve been playing this performance on repeat enough to claim that half the view-count for this video is me.

 

Happy Whatever-Asian-You-Are New Year! What I like about the Lunar New Year is that if the regular start to the year wasn’t as great as you thought it was…you still have another chance to make it work! Go be your best dragon! :)

 

When I was home for the holidays, I went to visit one of my childhood friends from elementary school. I hadn’t seen her in about fourteen years! She sent me home with a bunch of jams and jellies her wonderful mother had jammed over the summer.

This one is a blackberry jelly from blackberries along the American River. Freeganism at its sweetest.

 

The sunset tonight from my window. It was gorgeous.

{ UPDATE } Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who thought so!