This may possibly be a new life goal now....
...I just want a bear to wave at me!
xxx
cwg
Monday, February 27, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
"When something goes wrong, I'm the first to admit it - and the last to know"
Click this
Wow - over four months since I've done this. What happened? I can tell you and it is supremely embarrassing. I got interested in a certain dietary restricted someone. And it and he have been wonderful - but boy does it cut into my aimless wandering and reflective thinking time. Even more than that, my READING has decreased incredibly - so you know how much time this is taking up.
Although I know I have a few people that read this from time to time (key word FEW) - I am always writing this to someone in particular. You all know her, some better than others. That person is none other that the girl who started this blog. Claire from May 2009 - June 2010. That person, I always try to make these important, appealing, or even confusing to her in some way. Because that person was VERY carefree and figuring so many things out my natural happenings....but they were very forced at the same time. I had so few obligations during that time period that I discovered things that I would always go back to, the very NON-FLEETING things. And despite not having too much for which to be responsible - I was forced into many situations that made me grow. I look to that person to make sure I'm rooted in my basic being.
Today I found this quote - and I feel it resonates with m current ideals - one which I know would also resonate with *that* girl. This is one of those gems that I know will stick with me for a lifetime - not just while I'm going through something difficult currently. No, this is something that I will add to my core essence and lock it up.
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goodbye for today, mes amis, and let's hope it isn't another four months before I speak to everyone again. xxx
Claire Winter Gorton
oh P.S.!!!
Wow - over four months since I've done this. What happened? I can tell you and it is supremely embarrassing. I got interested in a certain dietary restricted someone. And it and he have been wonderful - but boy does it cut into my aimless wandering and reflective thinking time. Even more than that, my READING has decreased incredibly - so you know how much time this is taking up.
Although I know I have a few people that read this from time to time (key word FEW) - I am always writing this to someone in particular. You all know her, some better than others. That person is none other that the girl who started this blog. Claire from May 2009 - June 2010. That person, I always try to make these important, appealing, or even confusing to her in some way. Because that person was VERY carefree and figuring so many things out my natural happenings....but they were very forced at the same time. I had so few obligations during that time period that I discovered things that I would always go back to, the very NON-FLEETING things. And despite not having too much for which to be responsible - I was forced into many situations that made me grow. I look to that person to make sure I'm rooted in my basic being.
Today I found this quote - and I feel it resonates with m current ideals - one which I know would also resonate with *that* girl. This is one of those gems that I know will stick with me for a lifetime - not just while I'm going through something difficult currently. No, this is something that I will add to my core essence and lock it up.
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goodbye for today, mes amis, and let's hope it isn't another four months before I speak to everyone again. xxx
Claire Winter Gorton
oh P.S.!!!
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| draco.... |
Thursday, October 13, 2011
deconstructed thoughts
please click me
Just passing through today folks.
One of those uninforming but perhaps intriguing posts. I'll let you know what's I've been viewing - if not what I've been doing. I'm sort of uninspired to do so at the moment. Although a small update wouldn't hurt.
I've recently started working at Utah Mountain Adventures (a rock/ice/ski guiding company) in Salt Lake City. I'm still teaching Rock and ice Climbing courses for the University of Utah. I'm exploring gluten free worlds and preaching teh wonders of WinCo to anyone who will answer my phone calls. I'm waking up early staring out my window. I'm grading papers for a Linguistics course and reffing soccer games. I'm trying to be a good friend, person, daughter, granddaughter and sister. I'm drinking tea often and keeping iced coffee in my fridge. I'm taking time to listen to my mental hiccups and ask my father questions about his life and knowledge. I'm trying to track down a dear friend. I'm fighting distraction and over ambition simultaneously. I'm experiencing some things for the first time and truly examining them.
That's it.
Just passing through today folks.
One of those uninforming but perhaps intriguing posts. I'll let you know what's I've been viewing - if not what I've been doing. I'm sort of uninspired to do so at the moment. Although a small update wouldn't hurt.
I've recently started working at Utah Mountain Adventures (a rock/ice/ski guiding company) in Salt Lake City. I'm still teaching Rock and ice Climbing courses for the University of Utah. I'm exploring gluten free worlds and preaching teh wonders of WinCo to anyone who will answer my phone calls. I'm waking up early staring out my window. I'm grading papers for a Linguistics course and reffing soccer games. I'm trying to be a good friend, person, daughter, granddaughter and sister. I'm drinking tea often and keeping iced coffee in my fridge. I'm taking time to listen to my mental hiccups and ask my father questions about his life and knowledge. I'm trying to track down a dear friend. I'm fighting distraction and over ambition simultaneously. I'm experiencing some things for the first time and truly examining them.
That's it.
xxxxx
Claire Winter Gorton
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Slippery: 12 September 2011
So leeeeesten.
3 6 5
The miles - the meals - the memories.
12.9.2009
>>>
12.9.10
>>>>
12.9.11
Also known as: 9 . 10 . 11 !!!
This year's 12th of September was spent in post wedding come-down from a high induced by good food, friends, family and dancing. The Wedding was better than the royal one, I'll say that without any reservations. My 12th was actually spent hugging Caitlin Goodbye hoping to see her in November and hugging Krissy goodbye knowing I'd see her later that day most likely. MY SISTER IS MARRIED.
So another year has passed and I accomplished and enjoyed a great number of things. It wasn't all good and it wasn't that bad. I've got a solid handle on myself currently and feel that it may rain, or become bouleversé - but I'm able to smack it out of the Park anyhow. As long as Grace is around with Joho nearby.
The things that died and bloomed this year for the poignant culmination of today is enlightening. I'm glad September 12th exists to be my own personal Big Picture Day. Long Run Day. Overarching Meaning Day. How perfectly prevailing, this life.
xxx
Claire Winter Gorton
3 6 5
The miles - the meals - the memories.
12.9.2009
>>>
12.9.10
>>>>
12.9.11
Also known as: 9 . 10 . 11 !!!
This year's 12th of September was spent in post wedding come-down from a high induced by good food, friends, family and dancing. The Wedding was better than the royal one, I'll say that without any reservations. My 12th was actually spent hugging Caitlin Goodbye hoping to see her in November and hugging Krissy goodbye knowing I'd see her later that day most likely. MY SISTER IS MARRIED.
So another year has passed and I accomplished and enjoyed a great number of things. It wasn't all good and it wasn't that bad. I've got a solid handle on myself currently and feel that it may rain, or become bouleversé - but I'm able to smack it out of the Park anyhow. As long as Grace is around with Joho nearby.
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| I'm angry taking this photo(ANOTHER?), but consequently it's the only one that's surfaced of Gercie and me...thanks Barb. |
The things that died and bloomed this year for the poignant culmination of today is enlightening. I'm glad September 12th exists to be my own personal Big Picture Day. Long Run Day. Overarching Meaning Day. How perfectly prevailing, this life.
xxx
Claire Winter Gorton
Friday, September 2, 2011
Fun and funny and a funicular.
click me please
That's teh soundtrack for this post, per usual.
I'm still out of sorts, but slowly getting back on my train. I've moved into my temporary residence, doing a favor for a friend whilst she has her kitchen renovated. I'm currently sitting in front of a massive window - it painfully reminds me of chambre A4419. I'm drinking a tea in my robe, and trying not to think about the near future. I'm going to show you some items across which I've stumbled.
So, being a bum isn't all it is cracked up to be. I'm not exactly sure who has cracked up what, but I have come to learn that productivity is absolutely necessary for my happiness. Thanks USA, that's what I get from you. Ok, my words aren't worth a whole lot today, let's stick to music, images, and videos, eh.
I am very excited about going back to MI on Sunday for my dear Sister's wedding. I cannot believe it is finally here! And! I get to see Caitlin because she is flying around the world to come to the wedding. It is going to be beautiful and I get to enjoy some Fall in the beautiful Northern Michigan parts. I guess life isn't so blah, just a massive transition is taking place. I need to grasp something tightly, yet everything is changing and to what should I hold on? Just like Paul says, I am tumbling in turmoil and whoaaaa, so this is what she means...slip sliding away......
This may be the most disjointed blog post I've ever done - how fitting because that's how my life is right now. Ironic.
Here is an amazing video for Lanvin. How telling, the models can't dance, but still look beautiful. And then When Alber Elbaz comes out and dances a goofy little dance, - class.
Good riddance to this post,
cwg
That's teh soundtrack for this post, per usual.
I'm still out of sorts, but slowly getting back on my train. I've moved into my temporary residence, doing a favor for a friend whilst she has her kitchen renovated. I'm currently sitting in front of a massive window - it painfully reminds me of chambre A4419. I'm drinking a tea in my robe, and trying not to think about the near future. I'm going to show you some items across which I've stumbled.
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| A movement from day to night in one still. |
I am very excited about going back to MI on Sunday for my dear Sister's wedding. I cannot believe it is finally here! And! I get to see Caitlin because she is flying around the world to come to the wedding. It is going to be beautiful and I get to enjoy some Fall in the beautiful Northern Michigan parts. I guess life isn't so blah, just a massive transition is taking place. I need to grasp something tightly, yet everything is changing and to what should I hold on? Just like Paul says, I am tumbling in turmoil and whoaaaa, so this is what she means...slip sliding away......
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| An effort by the WWF to bring global warming and the melting of the ice caps to attention (In Berlin) |
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| I want to wear yellow eyeliner today. |
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| From the blog Canelle et Vanille in Espellettte, France. |
This may be the most disjointed blog post I've ever done - how fitting because that's how my life is right now. Ironic.
Here is an amazing video for Lanvin. How telling, the models can't dance, but still look beautiful. And then When Alber Elbaz comes out and dances a goofy little dance, - class.
Good riddance to this post,
cwg
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
nili rudi
please - click me
I have returned.
and then I left again - on a jet plane to MI to see the marriage of a close cousin - we share a middle name.
and then back again - to the great lake of salt and the nearby city I call home currently. I'm sorta done flying. Except for teh fact that today I bought another plane ticket to fly back for my dear sister's, Gercie's wedding in September. aïïïëeee.
This summer has been somewhat of a blur and the organization of my desk shows it. Wine glasses that were used the night before my departure to Africa still sit upon my desk. Beautiful but purpose-less items purchased from obscure vendors in Asia litter where I normally write my extensive lists. A burger menu from a late night outing in Amsterdam sits waiting to be put on my wall - a wall that is empty due to my moving out in 2 weeks. Flowers I plucked and stuck in the Patron bottle stopper top have wilted, died and dried. All on my desk.
The haphazard and spontaneous summer I've had has leaked inevitably from my mind over to my physical space. Mehhh, Fuck it. Disorder can create magnificent and chaotic patterns in it's own right. I should harness this raw form of function and see what happens....but I do love lists. I think the unfettered and disheveled schedule is what has been ordered. Life's throwing me for a loop and making me practice something with which I struggle sometimes - patience. Well, I should clarify. I'm quite patient when it comes to others, but when I'm told to sit idle, to be internally patient, well, I lack a certain serenity that in the 1800's would have quickly given me the black mark of being unfit to hold the XX sequence. SERENITY NOW. ish?
So here I am today, wishing I was still showering under a bucket drinking sharp, strong, and satisfying ginger ale. Or staring at my feet, enjoying teh simplicity of my inhale/exhale sequence whilst forging on up the scree as the sun burns and the wind strips me of any evidence of another's presence. Instead, I settle for a run and stared as the sun set on the valley, the day, and my unkempt mind.
Part of me craves to firmly plant my feet on a mountain top and claim the world for my own - and part of me yearns to then fling myself off to twist, fly and let the world claim me.
I have returned.and then I left again - on a jet plane to MI to see the marriage of a close cousin - we share a middle name.
and then back again - to the great lake of salt and the nearby city I call home currently. I'm sorta done flying. Except for teh fact that today I bought another plane ticket to fly back for my dear sister's, Gercie's wedding in September. aïïïëeee.
This summer has been somewhat of a blur and the organization of my desk shows it. Wine glasses that were used the night before my departure to Africa still sit upon my desk. Beautiful but purpose-less items purchased from obscure vendors in Asia litter where I normally write my extensive lists. A burger menu from a late night outing in Amsterdam sits waiting to be put on my wall - a wall that is empty due to my moving out in 2 weeks. Flowers I plucked and stuck in the Patron bottle stopper top have wilted, died and dried. All on my desk.
The haphazard and spontaneous summer I've had has leaked inevitably from my mind over to my physical space. Mehhh, Fuck it. Disorder can create magnificent and chaotic patterns in it's own right. I should harness this raw form of function and see what happens....but I do love lists. I think the unfettered and disheveled schedule is what has been ordered. Life's throwing me for a loop and making me practice something with which I struggle sometimes - patience. Well, I should clarify. I'm quite patient when it comes to others, but when I'm told to sit idle, to be internally patient, well, I lack a certain serenity that in the 1800's would have quickly given me the black mark of being unfit to hold the XX sequence. SERENITY NOW. ish?
So here I am today, wishing I was still showering under a bucket drinking sharp, strong, and satisfying ginger ale. Or staring at my feet, enjoying teh simplicity of my inhale/exhale sequence whilst forging on up the scree as the sun burns and the wind strips me of any evidence of another's presence. Instead, I settle for a run and stared as the sun set on the valley, the day, and my unkempt mind.
Part of me craves to firmly plant my feet on a mountain top and claim the world for my own - and part of me yearns to then fling myself off to twist, fly and let the world claim me.
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| isn't that simply beautiful? |
Until next time, x
Claire Winter
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Quicklyyyyyy
Join me, in my thought process:
The current Dig
Caitykins, Summer, Ice cream and healthiness
The current Dig
Caitykins, Summer, Ice cream and healthiness
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| Me sister, Gerce, her bachelorette party is tonight! |
How can this (N)EVER work?
xx
cw
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