Category Archives: Life Stories
Why 13 is My Favorite Number
Written on January 13, 2012 at 11:41 pm, by cct
My Shoe Calendar on Friday the 13th
I figured I’d squeeze in this post before the end of the first Friday the 13th of 2012 (the first of three such days this year separated by 13 weeks). Perhaps it’s my empathetic spirit, but 13 is actually my favorite number. It is partly because it has such a bad rep that I thought to make it a favorite number a long time ago. But while this is how it started, adopting 13 as a favorite number has grown to shade my perspective beyond this numeric empathy.
A Moment for my Diamond Earrings
Written on December 1, 2011 at 11:31 pm, by cct
Today I felt like wearing my diamond earrings. If you look at the instagram photo to the right, by diamond earrings, I mean well not really much of diamonds. But that doesn’t matter.
I bought these earrings myself. $25. Church silent auction. They’re butterflies – something anyone who keeps up-to-date with on this blog realizes is a favorite symbol of mine.
But despite the lack of cost (and let’s face it, almost lack of diamond), there’s something about being able to tell myself that I bought my first diamond earrings all by myself. There’s something in that message that I’ve always found empowering.
Thanks for Thinking Differently: In Memory of Steve Jobs
Written on October 5, 2011 at 6:07 pm, by cct
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
– Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
A Sonic Moment of Nostalgia
Written on July 13, 2011 at 8:49 pm, by cct
I listen to classical music and read all the time – but there are moments when I start into this routine that my brain dips itself into the past. And then to this soundtrack of swelling crescendo violins and pounding timpani, I remember for a moment lighter reading loads and hot summer days in the San Gabriel Valley.
#30DaysofGood: The Recap aka “June was Delicious” (Photos)
Written on July 1, 2011 at 5:58 pm, by cct
So I made it! Yes, there was that Los Angeles Magazine party incident and the Vitameatavegamin undoing, but I learned a little something about food consciousness/fast food consciousness and GOOD even featured/reblogged one of my food photos on tumblr!
In the end, I think I realized that being a vegetarian for 30 days (give or take) was not bad at all, but actually pretty great.
- I felt better.
- I cooked more.
- I thought about what I ate.
- I explored LA from a different angle.