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in our weekly photo blog, one of our challenges is to take photos of things, people, or places that inspire us.
This plastic bin of packed up schoolwork was sitting by the window, with my cheer lei and Freestyle stole laying on top. It was a melancholy image. My high school experience, ready to be moved into storage. But through the camera lens, I saw something different. The trees and blue sky outside reflected on the […]
My mom has had a cooking blog (chinesegrandma.com go check it out!) since I was little, so I grew up watching her take pictures of all the food she made and the process of making it. It’s pretty great having a mom who works on developing recipes. Although, the famous story in our house is […]
School shootings continue to pop up in the news. It is heartbreaking. I don’t really know how to understand how tragedies like this can happen, especially when they are so preventable. The statistics on shootings in the US versus other countries tell us everything we need to know. That these deaths are preventable. My little […]
This is definitely the most straightforward picture I could have taken for this prompt. Oops. I listen to this soundtrack every morning. On the day I took this picture, I was driving in Foothills park, and the sun set, turning the sky a wonderful pale pink. Surrounded by the hills and palm trees and wispy […]
It’s fascinating to watch the construction workers work on the new gym in the back parking lot. One second, you’re bothered by the noise as you rush to class, and the next, you’re mesmerized, watching a human being climbing on scaffolding as casually as a monkey in a tree. Like what?? I liked the way […]
I took this photo last year when the wildfires turned the sky orange. It is, admittedly, not a great photo, but I felt it was perfect for this prompt. Nature is greater than all of us.
I am at my calmest in the car. My (my family’s but I love her the most so) car’s name is Edna, and I love her like a daughter! A sister! A friend. Mya just left to go back to Ohio. I am very sad. But very, very grateful for our time together. Three weeks […]
I just love her so much. Last day of chemo very soon.
I have read Little Women a disturbing number of times. I am rereading The Secret History right now. I’m thinking Jane Eyre may be up next. Or maybe A Gentleman in Moscow again. Farmer Boy? The Long Winter? Anything Laura Ingalls Wilder. Harry Potter is also a lovely fall read. I Capture the Castle!! I […]
Junior year is coming to a close. Is it weird that I don’t really want to exit? I like the short period of time before school ends. Well, actually I don’t. It’s horrendous and stressful, but it’s also so surreal. Floating in between. No time to think just go go go go go go go […]