i’m eating raisins again. i don’t know why i like them so much, it just seems that lately, when evening rolls around, and i’m studying, or thinking about studying, or thinking that i should be thinking more about studying, i start craving them. i’m also using my old peanut butter jar to drink from again. it’s the best glass ever. i highly recommend using old peanut butter jars for glasses….everything- my morning smoothie, water, and even merlot are amazing tasty in my recycled marantatha crunchy and roasted peanut butter jar. however, much as i’d like to tell you more about my glass (kudos to shlomy and neil for the idea), this blog is not about my crunchy peanut butter jar of merlot… it’s about leaves.
and with that said
i don’t actually have much to say, considering the fact that i’ve been crazy busy with school work the last week… it was insanity. more insane than merlot in a peanut butter jar paired with a handful of raisens. however, no matter how busy my life gets, in the midst of the never ending chemistry equations, and the missing everyone, and the tears, and the highlighters that ran out of ink again, and the flashcards, i have found, that it grounds me and changes my self pitying perspective, when i stop to admire the leaves.
portland in the fall is beautiful.
and now i am lamenting the fact that i lost my camera in London, because every time i see the leaves in the valley, or the leaves on the PSU campus, or the leaves of the maples that line downtown, or the leaves on the tree outside my door, i miss my camera. i wish i could describe to you how beautiful the leaves are…the decidious trees mixed in with all the evergreens and the pink sun-setting sky. it’s unreal. the leaves are yellow, orange, all shades of green, and then there are the bright red leaves. oh the red leaves. i love the red leaves.
but that’s not all, there’s also the crunch. the sound of the leaves beneath my feet. the air is crisp and i can see it when i breathe out, and even though it’s cold, and i don’t like being cold, it doesn’t seem so bad, on account of the leaves.
i was walking through the PSU campus last week, which if you have ever been there you will understand this; in the middle there are trees and green and benches and beauty! so last week, with my stomach in knots, i was approaching the library to meet with my chemistry tutor… but when i made it past the buildings and entered the middle greenery i had to stop. i’m sure i looked quite ridiculous, standing there, then walking slowly looking to the sky, but i couldn’t help myself. everywhere- all around me was beauty and i was so completely captured by it,that i forgot that i was anxious and stressed about balancing molecular equations or remembering how many charges are in Na.
so here is my advice to you. not that i’m minimizing any of the stresses in your life, or any of your pain, or whatever, but i’ll just say it. it is highly doubtful to me, that there are many things worse than chemistry. that said, if stopping to admire the leaves can make school work less daunting, and make me stand in absolute awe of an amazing Creator, then it must be a worthwhile activity.
yes. leaf watching=activity.
