A moment I don’t want to forget. My best friends and I sitting in a bright orange cave. Laughing a ton and seeing pretty things.
Here’s a little painting I did last week. I’m trying really trying to find my creativity more often. Like in the way I walk and speak and drive. In just being present in each moment.
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🌕✨Thanksgiving 2018 ✨🌕
A full moon rising as the sun was setting with acid colors and geometry. It all felt new to me. It brought me back to myself. To the creative, lighthearted, giggly version of me. And I am more thankful than ever to have these friends, this natural beauty, this new perspective, all of this. I struggle through it most the time but I am just so so thankful to be living.
Anonymous asked
what do you think of girls who dress like taylor momsen
This is the most random question hahaha. Idk I probably would think they were way cooler than me
This and other originals are up on my Etsy. If you’d like to check them out:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/skyofalpenglow
And I’m promising myself I’m going to be better at painting when I feel the inspiration and stocking the little business when I do.
Thank you so so much.
November 18, 2018
On Friday morning I was teaching my little math class when the security came in, found a loaded gun in one of my students’ backpack. A student I am close with. He was taken away in handcuffs.
After that my students said they knew a few kids who brought guns to school often. And I’m scared. For them, for me, for the situation if it ever happens.
I went home and cried. From this responsibility I’m not prepared for, from knowing the system is fucked for our kids, and for my student who will be expelled and have a felony.
I stayed up late and painted and painted. Trying to not avoid or change the feelings, just simply feel them. And I understand more than ever how badly our education system needs to change. I understand that some teachers take on the greatest emotional load, and maybe I don’t want to anymore.
Anonymous asked
Best bars in denver??
I’m not the best person to ask cause I rarely go bar hopping. Based on my minimal experience I like Forest Room 5, Pon Pon, and Fort Greene depending on what part of the city I’m in.
Enlightenment is not something that occurs in the future, after 50 years of sitting cross-legged and saying “OM.” It is right here, in this instant. The reason you’re not experiencing this state of total peace and timelessness is because it is being resisted. It is being resisted because you are trying to control the moment. If you let go of trying to control your experience of the moment, and if you constantly surrender it like a tone of music, then you live on the crest of this exact always-ness. Experience arises like a note of music. The minute you hear a note, it’s already passing away. The instant you’ve heard it, it’s already dissolving. So every single moment is dissolving as it arises. Let go of anticipating the next moment, trying to control it, trying to hang on to the moment that has just passed. Let go clinging to what has just occurred. Let go trying to control what you think is about to occur. Then you live in an infinite space of non-time and non-event. There is an infinite peace beyond description. And you are home.
David R. Hawkins
I pretty sunset in Durango, CO
Anonymous asked
where do you buy your cute sweaters?:)
I’m obsessed with sweaters. I’ve gotten real good at finding things at Good Will and Value Village but my favorite ones are from little boutiques. Like that rainbow one was from this shop called Meraki Moon in Denver and my other favorite is from a little shop called Third Planet in Bellingham.
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