by the seat of our pants: Where is Indiana Jones?

lay off the cigarettes, kid. from Jasie VanGesen on Vimeo.

Less than one year ago... his hair was so short. Goodness gracious.

thanks for being here, really.

The longer I live, the more people I meet, the more homes I am welcomed into, the more I travel, the more blogs I read, the more books I crack open - it strikes me how much each life can differ and by how much. The conversations we have, the chores we complete, the hobbies and interests we spend our time engaging in, the music we play in the background, the food we cook and eat, the things hanging on our walls, the issues we're passionate about, the lives we lead... This world is full of so much variety, even from house to house, from street to street, from town to town, from country to country.

The goal of this blog is to give people a glimpse into our specific life and how we live it - a free and safe space to express who I am without fear of judgment or persecution.

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in a perfect world - my to do list

#1 - learn to relax.
#2 - get plastic out of our lives as much as possible.
#3 - teach Silas how to ride without training wheels.
#4 - schedule a massage every quarter, stay on a schedule with it.
#5 - buy a Wii fit. DONE thanks mama.
#6 - make my own tops and dresses.
#7 - plan a trip to europe.
#8 - start taking a daily multi-vitamin. DONE
#9 - find the perfect vintage desk.
#10 - buy a home. DONE
#11 - reduce the disposable paper products we use.
#12 - average a sale a week on etsy. - DONE
#13 - learn to can fruits & veggies. also learn to pickle! and dry my own herbs and seasonings!
#14 - get that fancy extended cable tv shut off. DONE
#15 - make my own bread, dammit.
#16 - quit my day job. DONE
#17 - cover a majestic tree in thrifted doilies.
#18 - clean out every closet in the apartment.
#19 - budget our groceries down to $4k a year.
#20 - organize and consolidate my wardrobe.
#21 - grow and harvest actual edible FOOD.
#22 - teach myself how to knit.
#23 - try sushi one more time, my 15 year old palate was clueless.
#24 - make my own laundry detergent - DONE

Life is too short.

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
- Yann Martel

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years."
- Bertrand Russell

"Disobedience is not an issue if obedience is not the goal."
- Daron Quinlan

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
- Douglas Adams

"Strength is not the result of constant success, but of the the ability to withstand failure and move on again and again."
-Naomi Aldort

"What other people think of me... is none of my business."
- RuPaul

I am passionate about Fat Acceptance.

Every person is different. This world is full of diverse shapes and colors and sizes and ideas. To think that you can diagnose whether someone is healthy just by looking at them is beyond ludicrous. It's time we stopped judging the people around us based soley on looks and ill-informed preconceived notions. It's time we stopped judging eachother AT ALL. It's time that people stopped making my body their business. It's probably pretty obvious, but I feel I should state it here and now that negative body-talk and weight-loss talk are not anything I want to see in this space. This is a body-positive, body-friendly zone.

by the seat of our pants

12/16/09

Where is Indiana Jones?

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