this actual now-ness: October 2008

Sunday, October 19, 2008

More Fall Beauty

I was hoping to go up to the Northeast this year and see the famous leaves in the fall. However, it's not going to work out right now. Maybe next year :) Anyway, fall around these parts is still very brilliant and beautiful.

Trees right outside my apartment

Pumpkins Aplenty! - at our field trip to the farm

Sunday, October 12, 2008

A Fall Day Downtown

I thought I would take advantage of the gorgeous weather and wander around downtown :) I went to the top of the Washington Monument and visited the American Indian Museum.

Fall in D.C. - lots of other people out enjoying the nice day

The Sculpture Garden next to the National Gallery of Art

I went to the top!

The Lincoln Memorial, Reflecting Pool, and WW II Memorial:
the view from the top

The White House

The National Mall - what a view!

Inside the National Museum of the American Indian

Outside the American Indian Museum

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Class of 99 Reunited!

Pics from my 10 year Alumni Reunion at DAA! Good times!

Lynette and I - 15 years of friendship...and counting!

Sabbath

Class of 99!

We Three Girls!

4/5 Thoms :)

LaLa and LiLi in Lincoln

Following Myndi around her zoo - her wallaby Phenny

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That night I kept thinking about Pandora's box. I wondered why someone would put a good thing such as Hope in a box with sickness and kidnapping and murder. It was fortunate that it was there, though. If not, people would have the birds of sadness nesting in their hair all the time, because of nuclear wars and the greenhouse effect and bombs and stabbings and lunatics. There must have been another box with all the good things in it, like sunshine and love and trees and all that. Who had the good fortune to open that one, and was there one bad thing down there in the bottom of the good box? Maybe it was Worry. Even when everything seems fine and good, I worry that something will go wrong and change everything.
-from Walk Two Moons

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.
-from Love Actually