I had a dream the other night about a man that I dated from SUU.
(Not so much dated as…..I had a crush on him and so I would stalk him. Literally on Friday nights.)
But anyways, it made me reminisce on the best two years of my life.
No, not a mission, but my first two years of college.
SUU is literally my favorite place on Earth.
I’ve been to many exotic places, but it’s safe to say that Cedar City, of all places, is where I want my ashes scattered.
I had my first kiss there, I learned how to rock climb there, it’s where I learned how to gamble, and where I had SO much fun with my best friends.
It’s hard to put into words the best times of your life.
And that’s why I love video so much.
To better reminisce I watched the old videos that I made during those times and it made me so happy that I started documenting things like that.
Because now I can go back and remember *a fraction of* the ridiculous things that I did and the good times that I had.
It’s so easy to forget the small details, but when you go back and remember….
It’s just the best.
So here are some of the different videos I made.
If anybody cares besides me :)
(And they are all hilariously old…)
The first...... "No Handlebars" with a 3 wheeled bike.
Next up....My favorite hike in Kanarraville
Mine and my best friend's Daily Life
And the place that I felt most at HOME
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Monday, June 13, 2016
focus on the good
We live in such a crazy world.
Where we can hear about news from all the way across the world.
And everyone shares their opinions and fights and argues with each other about what's happening.
And so many of those things are bad and scary.
People get hurt and some people die.
But what we don't always hear about is the good that is happening.
I had a teacher theorize that the news tells us about so many bad things because those are the events that are rare and out of the ordinary.
While it is good to recognize the bad, it is more important to focus on the good.
Because if we only pay attention to the bad we will get bogged down in it.
Hearing about the good helps us to remain positive and inspired to "be the good we wish to see in the world".
So here is my report of the good news in the world to break up the monotony of all the bad.
>This woman who graduated from the college where she was abandoned as a newborn.
>This mother who is seriously superwoman.
>This story about paying hundreds in pennies is more just to give you a laugh. Especially the last sentence of the story.
>I could never imagine doing what these two men did.
>It's amazing the effort people will go to to save an animal.
>And the "goodest" of all is the incredible amount of love given to complete strangers that have had tragedy fall upon them.
Where we can hear about news from all the way across the world.
And everyone shares their opinions and fights and argues with each other about what's happening.
And so many of those things are bad and scary.
People get hurt and some people die.
But what we don't always hear about is the good that is happening.
I had a teacher theorize that the news tells us about so many bad things because those are the events that are rare and out of the ordinary.
While it is good to recognize the bad, it is more important to focus on the good.
Because if we only pay attention to the bad we will get bogged down in it.
Hearing about the good helps us to remain positive and inspired to "be the good we wish to see in the world".
So here is my report of the good news in the world to break up the monotony of all the bad.
>This woman who graduated from the college where she was abandoned as a newborn.
>This mother who is seriously superwoman.
>This story about paying hundreds in pennies is more just to give you a laugh. Especially the last sentence of the story.
>I could never imagine doing what these two men did.
>It's amazing the effort people will go to to save an animal.
>And the "goodest" of all is the incredible amount of love given to complete strangers that have had tragedy fall upon them.
Friday, June 10, 2016
cosmic brownies
Almost two weeks ago in this blog post I foreshadowed that I had a funny story coming.
And now it is here.
It was really hot outside and my two broken knees were starting to stiffen under all the pressure of hiking 6 miles.
But what they didn't realize was that we still had ten miles left to get back to our car.
(Why Capitol Reef only has one way hikes is beyond me)
We started walking down the road, hoping somebody would take pity on our weary souls.
After being rejected again and again by clean people in clean cars a truck stopped for us at the beckoning of Derek's thumb.
We graciously hopped in and sank into the seats.
My knees and my heart were so happy that I offered the kind man a Cosmic Brownie once he dropped us off at our car.
He declined and I secretly cheered because that meant there was more for me.
We started chatting and getting to know each other.
We shared where we were from, where we were going to school, and what we do.
(No, the funny story is not that we let a serial killer know every detail about ourselves.)
And we learned that him and his rock climbing kids are pretty dang cool.
I told him that I live in Provo and go to BYU.
He told us that he had attended the U and that there was such a desire to be the antithesis of Mormon there.
Once this special word was shared and it was received with warmth he decided that now was the time to confess the question that had been burning in his soul.
"So, back to those brownies that you offered me. What did you call them?"
"Cosmic Brownies?"
"Yeah, did you make those with marijuana because I've got kids so I can't be taking one of those."
"No man, those are just Lil Debbies!!!"
Hahahahaha I guess we did look the type!