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day 337: a walk through soho brought me to steps to nowhere and soho park, my new favorite place in the city.

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day 336: a cold, cold heart.

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day 335: out in nyc with my ladies...please disregard strange man on the side.

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day 334: some georgetown street art.

i adore...

"i adore you, you crazy, gorgeous, wonderful (but also sometimes quite weird - but still very lovely) person"

*i do adore, you're right.

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day 333: i was so taken by this trash can...and its colors.

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day 332: trying out a new-to-me studio.

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day 331: a pair made for my little emmadilemma.

'lovers don't finally meet somewhere. they're in each other all along.'

- rumi

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day 330: happy valentimes day to me...candlelight, coconut shrimp curry, and a big glass of pinot.

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day 329: things that make me smile while waiting for the bus.

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day 328: mara is one lucky lady.

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day 327: another trek to work in way too much snow.

'we have to keep reinventing ourselves, almost every minute, because the world can change in an instant. sometimes the changes are forced upon us, sometimes they happen by accident and we make the most of them. we have to constantly come up with new ways to fix ourselves so we change, we adapt, we create new versions of ourselves. we just need to be sure that this one is an improvement over the past...'

"Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome."

- Deepak Chopra

'let go of what you believe is right...this is open-mindedness.'

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day 326: out of my window at 8:30 this morning...it just won't stop.

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day 325: dearest mother nature, please add some more snow to the 30" we have already. sincerely, bonkosi.

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day 324: my shadow's starting to look very panda-like...

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day 323: the snow makes things so beautiful.

(the last couple days make up for any days i've missed along the way...which has only been one!)

i l o v e .

'life can be very easy when love is your way of life...you may not have a reason to love, but you can love because to love makes you so happy. love in action only prod

uces happiness. love will give you inner peace. it will change your perception of everything.'

- don miguel ruiz, the 4 agreements

i love.

*today, after this blog was posted, i was presented with two unexpected but welcomed surprises on my walk to work.

new little bonbons*

new goodies in the shop now!

yesterday, i encountered a beautiful, radiant middle-aged woman who made a commitment 8 months ago. a commitment to stop complaining. why? because it doesn't get her anywhere. it doesn't put her above anyone else, it doesn't solve her problems and it forces her to think about the miniscule bad and forget about the immense, triumphant good. she said to me, 'all of the bad things i have are in this tiny little pile and all of the good things just keep building up, so count your blessings.'

the good almost always amounts to more than the bad, but we choose to focus on something so small that we forget about all of the things we should be grateful for. so i quit. i can only do my best, but i'm committing to counting my blessings instead of complaining.

happy birthday, robert nesta.

today is the legend's birthday. we should all be grateful that his legend lives on.

def poetry jam season 6

everyone should hear these...

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day 322: otherwise car-busy streets were occupied by mobs of pedestrians and pandas somehow escaped the zoo.

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day 322: chronicles of snowmageddon/snOMG/snowpocalypse dc 2010.

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day 321: snOMG 2010 begins...and the city will definitely shut down for the weekend. sad.

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day 320: our window in g'town...love is a battlefield.

ron clark academy

i was introduced to the ron clark academy today...and was screaming with pure excitement about the idea of education that looks like this. if you haven't been exposed, please check it out.

it's pretty amazing how articulate these kids are and how successful this style of teaching is.

'my space'

'we are obsessed with people getting to know us, assuming they'll keep it at a distance...and this is our problem: we can't deal with the face-to-face, so we let technology replace the space that people are supposed to feel...let's face it, we are internally afraid of what's real.'

- shannon matesky, season 6 def poetry jam

i've always been a fan of russell simmons presents def poetry jam, so i decided to add it to my my netflix queue. spoken word poetry is incredibly powerful to me and something always resonates with me when i listen. and while this post goes against the message, it's something to think about. something, at least, that i've been thinking about in the last few weeks that i've taken a social-networking break...and substituting it for real, face-to-face, human interaction. it's sort of like a breath of fresh air.

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day 319: honestly, the best banana bread i have ever had...i think i've found my calling.

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thinking spring...

day 318: but it's actually snowing...

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day 317: a pit stop to answer my phone mid-commute.

(taken 2.1.10)

core.

when we take care of the things at the center of our lives first, then the rest of our life falls into place in a way that makes sense to us.

- kathryn budig