This is it.  This is the end my friend :-).  I had this bean for over a year.  I bought it for my husband before we moved across the country together.  The other side says “The Best”.  The bean is pretty symbolic to me because it was a tremendous growth process to push myself through this and having done so sows a seed within.

I am under strict orders to rest before I tackle on another project.  I think 2011 is going to be about balancing and relaxing so whatever creative project I take on will be a little less rigorous. It feels so good to have it done though!  It’s quite an accomplishment and I have to say I’m pretty proud of myself for not giving up when I wanted to so many times.  I beat myself up a few times too when photos were not “good enough” but that’s just silly.

I leave you for now with a quote that sums up the “no regrets” contentment I feel when putting this baby to bed.

"The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets." ~Wayne Dyer

Dreams
by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

It’s snowing heaps! Although I would have loved to do a photo shoot outdoors in all that beautiful white fluffiness, it’s too dark for my literally taped together camera that has survived more than this 365 project!  Tulle will have to do and so here you have it, today’s photo…

“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.” ~Albert Einstein

That means Happy Birthday in Tagalog.  Today I celebrate the birth of two people who have brought light into my life: my wonderful sister (but she is so much more that that!), Josephine, who brings laughter and overall lightness to my life and to guruji Paramahansa Yogananda, the Author of Autobiography of a Yogi (but he is so much more than that!) who has brought enlightenment to my life.

Happy Birthday!!!  Thank you for being in my world and letting me be a part of yours.  I love you.

I didn’t have a cake but I did have popcorn so I worked with what I had!  It’s kettle corn, the kind that my sister and I indulged in during our walks through the Westwood Farmer’s Market every Thursday when we both worked at UCLA.  I miss those days.  That’s the thing with time, like popcorn, it slips through your fingers so quickly (and hopefully into your mouth!), therefore we must indulge in it before it’s all gone!

Maligayang Kaarawan!

“For you to see a rainbow, the sun always has to be behind you and you must be facing an area of rainfall with the sun at your back.”
~Brent McRoberts of Texas A&M University

Did you know this?  I didn’t either.  Pretty cool when read with metaphoRmulaic eyes!

The quote below (via endofmarch) I read the other day and fell in love with.  Seemingly it has not much to do with where I’m going with this rainbow thing but if you understand where I’m going metaphoRically then you know.  You know how to see rainbows (where other only see rainfall).  In which case, I know you live a magical life :-)

It broke my heart in all right places, and then mended it with golden thread.I put feathers in the spaces left. Now my heart is like a magpie's nest.Full of treasures and secrets.Glittering in the sunlight.

Another resolution: Stay present, live now.

One of my resolutions: Let more light in.

"I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do." ~Dark Garden by storypeople

Happy New Year lovelies!  Today also begins my one week countdown to the end of this 365 days project!  Here are the missing photos of the last days of 2010 to today.

343/365 Days: Snowed rINg

344/365 Days: Comfort food

345/365 Days: Tight lipped

346/365 Days

347/365 Days

348/365 Days

349/365 Days

350/365 Days: Church shoes?

351/365 Days: From Santa

352/365 Days

353/365 Days

354/365 Days

355/365 Days

356/365 Days

357/365 Days: It's All We Got! xoxo

358/365 Days: Happy New Year!

Our car broke down today on my way home in the most ladylike of ways.  It jerked a little but mostly just slowed down to a stop right into the Post Office parking lot, nearby an ATM where I could get cash for the bus, a petrol station where I could get change and the bus stop about 10 minutes down the street from home.  How nice of our car to think of such things.  She must have known how bad it would have been out there in the cold snow and must have planned it all…  Mrs. Mia Wallace (Yes, my hubby named her after Uma Thurman’s character in ‘Pulp Fiction’) is after all, a lady!