metastable heart

I'm Brooke (Brookite) let's be real: I am a geology student, living in new zealand, from california. mineralogist nature enthusiast food lover reveling in the best times of my life just living on a sphere floating in space. soak it up, drink it in, this is our one shot.

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Need these crystal geometric nail patterns NOW

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Oberst will always be one of my favorite teen heroes

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Photograph of artist Georgia O’Keeffe in the desert with one of her paintings.

TONY VACCARO/GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM

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Need this!

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Waiting for summer to come and camping season resumes again

<<<5 days until freedom

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (via swimminginwaterfalls)

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"I LIVE AT THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE, LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE"

-Bill Manhire sculpture at the Wellington Writer's Walk

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Gratitude

"Gratitude is what makes what we have enough. Gratitude is the most basic way to connect with that sense of being an integral part of the vastness of the universe; like looking up at the stars, it’s that sense of wonder and humility, contrasted with celebrating our connection to all of life." -- Kate Bortolotta

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Oh, the simple pleasures

:)

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a scribble

I haven't written anything personal in a long time. Sometimes I get too wrapped up in the hustle and bustle, push and shove, walk and talk of every day life. Sometimes I feel trapped in a bubble, pushing my way through the waves of people in the city, trying to get to the edge to pop it and emerge from the soapy prison of my own education. I chose this, I tell myself. I'm bettering myself, I hear myself think. I want this, I force myself to say.

Why is there so much forcing in our lives? If only everything were as simple as one moment with someone you love, the brush of soft fingertips, the feel of a wet paintbrush along your palm. 

I must take a moment, a fingertip, a paintbrush on the palm, and step back. Put my life into perspective. I climb mountains of books every day, shelve through files of computer programming and type thousands of letters on the keyboard. But I also take in sunshine and sweet air, and observe these people as they push by me, lost in their own shove and hustle to the outside of their personal bubble hells. But taking a step back and really thinking, that isn't something I do every day.

I'm a Master's student, and I don't think.

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Gorgeous Rhodocrosite from the John Schneider Kalahari Collection

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Eastern Sierra Nevada Range, Summer 2012

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all i want is a club sandwich. how can i get in on the club? 

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Bödenseen by Youronas on Flickr.

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Louis Armstrong playing for his wife, Lucille, in front of the Great Sphinx and pyramids in Giza, Egypt.

Well this has ruined any dates I’ll have in the future.