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What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling all round the sun. What a beautiful dream that could flash on the screen in a blink of an eye and be gone from me. Let me hold it close and keep it here with me. And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young, let us lay in the sun and LIST every beautiful thing we see.

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listography GIVE MEMORIES
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Ryan movies (In theaters, TV series, or docs)
books (reading, read, bookclub)
activities (Hikes + Trips + Outdoor Activism)
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  • LA: at 1am I thought a giant hornet was flying around the livingroom and spent an hour looking for it, waking up Adam. it turned out to be a harmless june bug.
  • Michigan: stung by a hornet on a hike for no apparent reason.
  • Agra, India: I woke up in a pile of dead mosquitoes that traveled through the swamp cooler.
  • New Orleans: when I came flying out of the bathroom at the swamp tour because a huge flying insect was in there with me. I came out to a laughing audience.
  • Costa Rica: the spider in the toilet paper holder at the research station and the giant one that almost landed on Adam's head.
  • Yelapa, Mexico: the giant insect we found on my towel.
  • When I dove into a pool with my clothes on from a flying bee in high school.
  • When we found a crazy looking prehistoric insect at our house at 65th street.
  • When I was stung by a bee in the library when I was a substitute teacher.
  • The ant infestation at our house on 65th street.
  • New York: When I saw a cockroach land on a guy's shoulder while waiting for the subway train and I froze.
  • Adam showing me the giant insect beast that lives in the middle east on the internet.
  • When walking the dog at dusk and almost walking through an enormous web hosted by a giant orange spider the size of my palm.
  • When there was a bee trapped in a car with me and Adam and I took off running while the car was at a red light.
  • India: the biggest spider I have ever seen in the bathroom toilet with me in South India...that crawled out right after I peed...I went into shock.
  • When Adam calmly looked at me, told me to close my eyes, and then swatted away a big cockroach on my shoulder while picnicking at a park in Palm Springs, and then didn't tell me because he knew I'd be too traumatized (he told me later).
  • When my dog Toki's face swelled up because he was bit by some crazy spider at the High Tower house.
feb 11 2009 ∞
sep 29 2014 +