Yo te cielo

I love mountains, running, climbing, español, good music, simplicity, traveling, the Americas, portugues, learning, laughing, lightning bugs, being outside, and sharing meals, stories, moments, and life.

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If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

Mary Oliver, Poems and Prose

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Beautiful images of San Francisco's fog... much prettier from above than below!

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Traveling is...

Viajar es marcharse de casa,

es dejar los amigos es intentar volar, 

volar conociendo otras ramas, 

recorriendo caminos es intentar cambiar.  

Viajar es vestirse de loco

es decir “no me importa” es querer regresar.

Regresar valorando lo poco

saboreando una copa,

es desear empezar.

Viajar es sentirse poeta,

es escribir una carta,

es querer abrazar.

Abrazar al llegar a una puerta

añorando la calma

es dejarse besar.

Viajar es volverse mundano

es conocer otra gente

es volver a empezar.

Empezar extendiendo la mano,

aprendiendo del fuerte,

es sentir soledad.

Viajar es marcharse de casa,

es vestirse de loco diciendo todo y nada con una postal,

Es dormir en otra cama,

sentir que el tiempo es corto,

viajar es regresar.

- Gabriel Garcia Márquez -

Traveling is leaving home, it's leaving friends, it's trying to fly, it's flying to see other parts, taking different paths, it is trying to change.  Traveling is wearing crazy clothes, it's saying "I don't care", it's wanting to return.  Traveling is valuing the small things, tasting a cup, its the desire to begin.  Traveling is feeling like a poet, it's writing a letter, it's wanting to hug.  It's hugging at the arrival to a port, it's missing the calmness, it's stopping kissing.  Traveling is returning to the mundane, it's meeting other people, it's returning to the beginning.  Beginning to extend your hand, learning the hard way, it's feeling alone.  Traveling is leaving home, wearing crazy clothes, saying everything and nothing with a post card.  It's sleeping in another bed, feeling that time is short, traveling is returning.  

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Interesting!! How much time, money, and effort are you giving to others?

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One too many goals The measure of your worth Can sink your weight in gold Sat by the ivory sail The further out you look The further out you'll be....

Next time around by Little Joy.

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Sabes que es verdad... sabes que el amor existe.

-Gondwana, Sentimiento original

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Já sei namorar by the Tribalistas.  enjoy!

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Beauuutiful sounds and words... Carnávalia by a Brazilian band, the Tribalistas.  

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another splendid winter sunset over Indiana!

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, TO LIVE EVERYTHING. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

~Rilke

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yeahhhh Hooooosiers!!  

#Assembly hall awesomeness #college basketball #Number one in the NATION!

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 such great sounds!  ... keep your head up :).  Stubborn Love by the Lumineers.

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The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.” La Iglesia dice: El cuerpo es una culpa. La ciencia dice: El cuerpo es una máquina. La publicidad dice: El cuerpo es un negocio. El cuerpo dice: Yo soy la fiesta.

 Eduardo Hughes Galeano, Walking Words

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“Who wouldn't be a mountaineer? Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing.”

- John Muir

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Ahh this is why climbing is awesome...  it's empowering, strengthening, cleansing, and humbling.  Climbing always has its own way of teaching you things.   It teaches you to focus, prioritize, take care of yourself, set goals, make damn good decisions, to listen, to trust.   The sport constantly urges you to be better.   The challenge always ends up showing yourself exactly what you have to work on and that you're ultimately stronger than you think you are.   Climbing makes the impossible seem even a bit more possible, whatever your next move might be.  Check out this awesome video about how rock climbing provides a positive outlet to confront challenges of life in favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

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