domestic reflections: March 2012

On Friends and Laughter.

March 19, 2012

{the whole gang}

Hi y'all. I just spent the four days with one of my favorite people in the whole wide world (plus her two sweet daughters). Nichole and I go way back....in fact, we were reminiscing about "falling in love" back in college. You have done that with good friends before, right? (In the completely platonic way, of course!)

Anyway, one of the things I love most about Nichole is the way we laugh non-stop when we are together. Truth be told, she is one of the funniest people on the planet, so I think lots of other people feel this way about her as well. But it got me thinking. I need more laughter in my life. I don't think there has been a void of it or anything like that (I'm so lucky to have a HILARIOUS husband that I laugh with daily), I just need need MORE of it because it feels so darn good. I wish Nichole lived closer (although we are trying to convince her husband to move her back to California....fingers crossed). I think I'll call all my funny people this week to see if they want to hang out. ;-)

{i knew audrey and i had a lot in common}

How Do You Like My New 'Do?

March 5, 2012

A new look has been in order for this blog for some time. Sweet Desi is to thank as I know nothing about web design/programming/anything technical. I was just bummed I couldn't use all the other (totally different!) designs she came up with....they were all that good. Thank you, Desi!

I am going to be updating my FAQ page sometime soon, so if there's something I should cover, shoot me an email: missjora [at] gmail [dot] com. Mwah!

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I love:
Rainy days, moody music, warm drinks, picking fruit from a tree, turquoise water, baking, sharing meals with friends, most everything “old world,” simple, rustic, smart, funny, really hot baths, feeling connected, being pregnant, finding the perfect gift, smelling the tops of my kids’ heads, cacti + succulents, citrus, California light, guest houses, stinky cheeses, everything my grandmother baked, hearing my kids laugh, small world connections, smiles between strangers, snuggling, reading cookbooks, modern, Mediterranean, walks in the forest, being near the ocean, everything about the desert, gold, jeans, Lillet Blanc, natural childbirth, the beginning of a new season, snail mail, hearing someone’s story, people who reveal themselves…

"let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. it will not lead you astray."
- rumi

"do small things with great love."
- mother teresa

"remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life."
- marcus aurelius

"we do not see things as they are. we see things as we are."
- anais nin

"we can love completely without complete understanding."
-a river runs through it

"the ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
-thomas moore

"i have decided to stick with love. hate is too great a burden to bear."
-martin luther king, jr.

"your children are not your children,
they are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.
they come through you but are not from you,
and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
you may give them your love but not your thoughts,
for they have their own thoughts.
you may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
you may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday."
-kahlil gibran

"ring the bells that can still ring forget your perfect offering. there is a crack in everything -- that's how the light gets in."
- leonard cohen

"the good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos."
-alicia randall

"out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. i will meet you there."
-rumi

"the best conversations with mothers always takes place in silence, when only the heart speaks."
-carrie latet

"to love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
-david viscott

"she discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
- gabriel garcia marquez

"the master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. he hardly knows which is which. he simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. to him he’s always doing both."
-james michener

"the whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-bertrand russell