pieces

i feel my pieces coming together :)

ok, that sounds weird. but really, even though i'm one person, there's lots of different things that make me tick and experiences that have made me who i am. i think today is a good example. today hasn't really been a really different or exciting day in comparison to any other, i guess. but it's complete. and it's comfortable. and i've felt amazing :)

i have minestrone in the crock pot. my second favorite soup only to my grandma's italian wedding soup with mini meatballs and escarole that we always eat on christmas :) as a more everyday kind of soup though, the one i grew up with in the winters when i was little, that's minestrone.

incense, acoustic music with soulful lyrics, candles, and relics of my travels, my friends' travels, and my family's travels surround me. it's cool to think that you can have a little piece of the world beyond you with you all the time :) they're simple things, really...a piggy bank from chicago, wooden figures of a sea turtle from costa rica and the cristo from rio de janeiro, a small bottle of cachaça from salvador, a tree stump candle from alaska, a woven bracelet from ecuador, native american sculptures from new mexico and incense from the grand canyon...random. they make me comfortable though, somehow. my environmental textbooks and language dictionaries are strewn across the room (of course, could i ever have a completely clean room?). and it's reaaaallllly cold outside. reminds me of ny. my other second home besides brazil :)


i know i should be working and learning about the wonders of microbial process modeling.

mas que lindo, que incrivel parar e apreciar sua vida por o momento só :)