many moon cycles

BLOG REVIVAL DAY!!

I'm making a point to start posting more about the things I do, love, wear, and make. I realized that I have been missing an outlet for a long time to share these things with the world. I sincerely hope that it inspires me to always be productive towards living a life filled with doing exactly what I love to do. The last feeble attempt came at a very confusing time and I've been through oh so much in the past year and a half, I can't even begin to cover it all.Suffice to say, it is infinitely different yet all the same.

 ~Cycle lyfe~

Just a few of the most important things, I am the luckiest girl in the universe to have the people in my life that I do. I have my special Prince Adam, the most supportive family, and the best friends that have ever existed (sorry everyone else's friends.) My sister and her husband were blessed with the most adorable baby, Julie Anne, who I LOVE so much and I'm spoiling her already. Making baby things is so easy and too dang cute. May is only a couple of days away, and my loving older brother is getting MARRIED ON FRIDAY!  James and Brittany are going to have a Texas size wedding in Austin on a beautiful lakeside. I seriously can't wait. I'm leaving tomorrow and I get to see everyone!!! I couldn't be more excited. 

In other news, I am on a hiatus from school and work currently, and just exploing California while I still live here. I relocated for a PhD program in microbiology, but the funds just weren't fitting my passions. I am so much happier now that I've escaped from under the thumb of that school. Though so much of it sucked a huge ass, I'm genuinely thankful for the experience that it was and what I've learned from it. I'm also very grateful for all of the amazing friends I've made here and the things that I've had the opportunity to do. I live an hour from San Francisco, so I certainly can't complain about that. It's such a beautiful city filled with crazy and amazing people. This time off has given me a lot of power to do all sorts of projects and trips and art and thrifting and crafting! I really wish I could just sustain this forever, but I also miss being in lab and doing the science that I burn for. I've been having a lot of existential career crises, but some really wonderful friends in Humboldt who hosted me on a dreamy coastal retreat really eased my mind. 

It's all about the lifestyle choices and not about the career ones anymore.

 I'm pumped to see where this train takes me.

Stuck

Foreign object of our affection

Sweden-and-everything-and-everyone-in-it pangs are hitting me really hard this time of year. How I long to disappear in those forests in these stressful times- reach out to the trees and hear the real sounds and feel the real feels-know deep down that I belong where I am- know that all things that come to pass will be worthwhile somehow. Please carry me home soon, min lilla tomte.

Headphones and the original track with closed eyes and an open mind

http://www.lukejerram.com/glass/gallery

This is so cool. 

Since I am failing to upload my own work, I figured I should suggest some more art for the few who look at this blog. First: David Goodsell. I have found a living model for what I want in my career, and he is it. I contacted him not too long ago after I saw his work, just looking for some guidance in my life as an aspiring graduate student. He gave me hope for the balance I never thought I could maintain between my passions. Though he probably couldn't have known, he helped ease me out of a pretty intense existential moment! He is incredibly inspiring, aaaand I hope I meet him soon. He combines the world of microbiology with the world of watercolors and computer graphics so seamlessly. Just take a look at this piece, Microphage and Bacterium 2,000,000X 

If you don't think this is incredible, I don't know you. 

Seriously, he lives my dream.

Next, we have Olivia Lin. She is on the other side of the spectrum of things that I love- textiles! Her art is eery and mystical in all the right ways. I don't know the name of this one, but I love it:

It's like a chiffon biofilm or a sunken, grown over wedding dress. The best part about Lin is that her body of work is so diverse and also ethically conscious. Check her OUT.

School starts soon. Maybe I'll actually get to a scanner... murrrrrrrrrr sorry I'm a bum :/

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