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Music Monday: Nathan and Eva

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These guys are fun. Still .  I love that they are brother and sister (incase I never mentioned that before)! Happy Monday, y'all.

Valentimes: a belated post.

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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” ―  C.S. Lewis ,  The Four Loves film by Clara Williams Photography It seems like there's nobody with passive feelings about Valentine's Day. You either love it or you hate it. I love it. I'm all in. And I have been for all of my born days (ok, MOST of my born days). It has baffled me for a long time why (mostly single) people have such strong negative feelings against it, and it wasn't until I was having a conversation with one of my friends ab

30 before 30

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It's coming, you guys. That big 30. Another decade alive.   Before I get all introspective, I'm just going to put this quote out there to remind myself (maybe you need the reminder, too). Instead of having the mentality of "some day" and living in the hypothetical future, I constantly am having to remind myself to live in today (while, yes, preparing for the future).  In order to give myself goals to help keep the every day on track and purposeful, I decided to make a 30 before 30 list alongside my yearly goals. I love reading other people's lists, and I was particularly inspired by this post.  Here's an incomplete start to my 30 before 30 in no particular order. Stay tuned. ;) 1. Go to Hippy Hole in the Black Hills (How have I never gone?) 2. Take Matt to the Devil's Bathtubs in the Black Hills. 3. International Travel at least once before Amos needs a ticket ;)  4. Move to a bigger house (rent? buy?) 5. Camp in the Badla