for strength, hope, and safe travels over water

for all my sisters

Certavi et Vici 

I fought, I conquered. 

FOR ME.

Astarte

here.

second flight alright

Kilo Bravo

c-172

nobody up here but us clouds

on laughter-silvered wing

coming in for landing...

Did I ever tell you how much fun it is learning to fly and becoming a pilot?

aWOmen, aWOmen.

Thank you, Sarah. I don't know where you found this but...seriously..!!

Thanksgiving 2011

There is so much I am thankful for.
This year, every year, every day and moment!
It was my 4th? here on the Island and to celebrate with both new and old friends was so special.
I also think we've gone a little Hallo-crazy over here....almost every event I've attended over here in the past few months has involved costumes or silly games, usually unplanned...but here are some of the pictorial highlights as well!

and the foolishness...!

the end!

First Flying Experience

My first flight of many to come....in pictures and video!

Jessa Clare, sky queen (instructor)!

my chariot - Cessna 172

<3

Thank you Island Pacific Flight Acadamy!

Japanese Love Poems

I am uploading very awesome pictures and videos from my day... to post tomorrow!
Too excited to delay.

But for now...a few years back I received a book of poetry entitled
Love Poems from the Japanese
Translated by Kenneth Rexroth
Edited by Sam Hamill

Here are some of the poems I love from this book.

Who knows
that in the depth of the ravine
of the mountain of my hidden heart
a firefly of my love is aflame.
- Abutsu-Ni


Gossip grows like weeds
In a summer meadow.
My girl and I
Sleep arm in arm.
-Kakinomoto No Hitomaro


The colored leaves
Have hidden the paths
On the autumn mountain.
How can I find my girl,
Wandering on ways I do not know?
-Kakinomoto No Hitomaro


Cats making love in the temple
But people would blame
An man and wife for mating in such
a place.
-Kawai Chigetsu-Ni


Doesn't he realize
that I am not
like the swaying kelp
in the surf,
where the seaweed gatherer
can come as often as he wants.
-Ono No Komachi


Love me. At this moment we
Are the happiest
People in the world.
-Marichiko


Come at last to this point
I look back on my passion
And realize that I
Have been like a blind man
Who is unafraid of the dark.
-Yosano Akiko


Some day in six inches of
Ashes will be all
That's left of our passionate minds,
Of all the world created
By our love, its origin
And passing away.
- Marichiko


Why should I be bitter
About someone who was
A complete stranger
Until a certain moment
In a day that has passed.
-Saigyo


From the beginning
I knew meeting could only
End in parting, yet
I ignored the coming dawn
And I gave myself to you.
-Fujiwara No Teika


Life, like a thread piercing
through jewels,
if you must break,
break now!
If I live any longer
I will weaken and show my
hidden love.
-Princess Shikishi


I hold your head tight
Between my thighs and
Against your mouth and
Float away forever in
An orchid boat
On the River of Heaven.
-Marichiko


I shall hide myself
within the moon of the spring night,
after I have dared to reveal
my love to you.
-Chino Masako

crescent moon tonight

the opposite of lazy?

I LOVE AND MISS...this blog?
I really do, actually. So many things to post on you, Galikat,
so much fun and informative content, interesting pictures...
this blog is due for a complete over-haul and tidy-up.
Just gimme a lil' bit more time...
PS it's almost the 1 year anniversary of this blog.
you really don't know how much has happened this year...

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

ahh, the moonlight has found me again
and i love CocoRosie.

mmm sort of like this,
but with...MORE.

this is how i feel most of the time.

...
you all don't even KNOW how many serious posts I have up my sleeves.

thanks Dan for introducing me to this

I like to watch this from time to time.

Cats are sometimes mislabeled as lazy.
I am not lazy,
just off doing super-stealth feline things!
mrawr.