Thursday, August 12, 2010
North Carolina
Monday, June 28, 2010
It's like I like it
Sunday, June 20, 2010
In June
the king and the pawn go into the same box."
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Wind of We
More than quiet livelihood
Entertaining the senses, purity and serene
Plunging and fluttering amongst the breeze
I wouldn't, Wait, Yes I would.
Forever will you dance with me?
The cool nights begin to freeze
All at once the life is gone
Until something strange becomes anew
As briskly appearing as the dawn
The chickadees all atwitter
Gentle changing iced morning dew
Forever, forever?
Wonderful emotions never bitter
And the snow falls
A voice whispers "Never, never"
Fragile allure becomes enraged
Violence hiding in the aphotic scenery enthralls
The wandering soul is now intangible
Concealed and absent.
...
Earth softens, the departed ones again animate
Colorful insects zoom and buzz busily
The blustery weather came and went
Moisture collects and from there consolidates
Dripping, dripping freely, easily
Run away, Far away
When?
Today, today
The spirit contrives revenge
She lays in wait
Angry and cold
Consumed by hate
The wind whispers a message
"Alone, alone."
Non compos mentis sanity alleged
I speak to the wind
"Forever, forever?"
Banteringly mocking replies
"And ever, and ever."
By Miranda PierceJune 2, 2010I hope you like it!~~M
Monday, May 3, 2010
I'm in-joy
I don't really know where to begin. Had another good season at the ski area. Except one broken arm, only a minor set back. Started a new job working as a whitewater guide for Oregon Whitewater Adventures. So far I love it. The people are fun and it's wonderful to begin embracing nature and it's beauty again.
This weekend some other guides and I did a training trip on the North Umpqua. The water was raging and VERY COLD. It never ceases to surprise me how such a simple task as rafting can make all of your worries melt away for a short while. Navigating the swirling waters is hypnotizing and refreshing. Topped with adrenaline.
The boat is heavy
Our arms our strong
Forward hard!
Back paddle, dig in!
Aye, aye captain!!
"Breathe in deeply - Feel your soul refreshed. It's river time!" R.R. Hicklin
There are all these amazing quotes I have been hearing all weekend. My favorite of which I don't know the writer.
"May the peace of the wilderness always be with you."
This reminds me of my friend Penny who is currently battling cancer. She is probably the kindest soul I have ever met. When I think of her it is easy to visualize hiking on a pristine hillside with lush green ferns being trampled by her three legged husky dog. When I think of her I think of picking plums on a warm Sunday afternoon before departing to Portland to proctor for an EMT test. Many fond memories of her.
Lately I have been feeling very satisfied. I have met many goals I have set for myself and need to make a new list.
MIRANDA'S GOALS MET!
Explored
New job
Dated AMAZING men. (yes you guys. Jay, and Jason)
Picked mushrooms/berries
Hiked more
Rafted more
Became more healthy
Loved more
Formed strong bonds
Volunteered
Wrote
Enjoyed
In tune with self
Broadened horizons
Picked up hitchhikers
Played irresponsible
Forgave
Relaxed
Was responsible
Felt creative
Had adventures
Self reflection
Started playing harmonica
Listened to nature
New Goals.
Be less selfish
Listen to my heart
Go back to college
Strengthen upper body
Reconnect with old friends
Spoil my cat
Over the next few months the outdoors will become my home again while I work on the river. Hopefully I find time to post pictures and connect even though I will be far.
"May the peace of the wilderness always be with you."
~~M
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The key is love.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Nature, poetry and passion
Willamette Pass has closed for the season and I am still laid off from the grocery store. This unexpected break has given me time to slack, slow down and enjoy the simpler things in life. Friendships, good company, live music, strawberries, fishing. I feel almost sinfully indulgent.
A brief overview of what I have been doing for the last few months in no specific order:
Working at the Pass
Snowboarding
Mysteriously contracting poison oak blisters
A fun and spendy trip to Reno and Lake Tahoe with great friends and lively coworkers
A little bit of snowmobiling
Fishing
Having girl nights
Volunteer for the station as usual
Making friends
Dating
Connecting with old friends
Moving
Eating good food at new restaurants
Loving every moment of it
New goals:
Learn to play hand drums
Find a job
Explore more
Hiking
Some biking
Move
Write poetry
And I have included some pictures!
Ok or not! I will put some up later
More posts to come soon!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Ay!
Monday, December 15, 2008
weather
Sunday, December 14, 2008
night
It's 02:34. Outside is absolutely beautiful. I keep peaking out looking at the fresh coating of snow on the ground. Every so large so puffs fall lightly to the ground in variations from light to heavy. I keep grabbing my coat to go outside and take it all in. Everything being so quiet and peaceful during the night hours makes me more and more prone to not sleep.
So peaceful
Beautiful
And dern my words, "It's just so friggin purty." (that's a mental quote :-P)
No activity in the park, just the snowing and the cold.
I wish I had my camera. The snow light is enough to capture images and store them away for future recollection.
Do we take pictures in attempt to freeze a moment and be able to hold onto it?
The winter season has finally officially arrived with the coming of snow to this quiet little city. The eagerness for the next several months to finally be happening again is driving me batty. It's time for friendly gatherings to come indoors, drinking hot sweet cider and dishing with my girls about petty things like how adorable celebrity babies are, reading Cosmo together and making fun of the latest sexual trends and them laughing their head's off about what they call my "goofy" selection of hats I have firmly glued to my head for the cold weather. It is a time for pure joy and merriment to overcome us and take life lightheartedly. I have a baby shower to help plan for my cousin soon as well. Things couldn't be more wonderful during this time of year.
I hope the holiday season will be spent happily with my family. Disputes either simmer down or escalate during Christmas time and we can never predict exactly what will happen. My typical redneck family. Beer, hard liquor beverages and prime rib make up the Christmas dinner on both sides of my family I love them.
It's also the time of year for SUPER SNOWBOARDING MADNESS!
Okay. That was a little over the top, but I am so excited for this coming season at the amazing Willamette Pass Ski Resort... WOO HOO.
My winter job. It's great. Free riding. Good times with friends. Making new ones working lifts. Finding the most ridiculous ways to pass the time while freezing our asses off. Shovel riding and racing is such a blast. Also the most forbidden fun thing you can do up their while working. Too fun to pass up.
There is also the snowmobiling during winter time. I better not start on that subject. Too much love.
A goal for this winter is to buy a pair of snowshoes. One trip I would like to make is to snowshoe into the Timpanogas Lake area and stay at the shelter there for a night. Then I would like to either spend a day up there exploring or snowshoe into Crescent Lake. Then back to the vehicle the following day. I do not know exactly how far the trip is and it would be all depending on how far up the road is clear to drive. It will be difficult to find someone to take this trip. I cannot go alone, not knowing what could happen and it being prime cougar territory makes me worry too much. Most of my lady friends don't appreciate such encounters with the outdoors and many of my male friends are much too busy to take a few days to make the small adventure. I can just hope and nag I suppose!
My cat is driving me absolutely insane. He just wants to play constantly. He wears me out playing and then keeps me up during my sleep time with his playing. Okay, so his name is Kitty. Very original. Could not find a suitable name. My roommate calls him psycho, tweak, attention whore and pain in the ass. His nicer nicknames that I have for him include: Kee, Kitten and "Oh my Gosh you little shit you did not just break that!" I also caught him drinking out of the toilet the other day even though he has plenty of clean fresh water. Hence the picture above. Kitty has a lot of strange habits, like washing his paws in his water dish, wrestling with my roommate's 3 year old daughter without biting or scratching and chasing his tail. Kitty full out chases his tail like some dogs do. No joke.
It's time for me to brew one last cup lovely decaffeinated Cascade Mint Tea, look outside once more and maybe fall asleep.
Goodnight, sleep comfortable.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
full moon
Friday, December 5, 2008
little Japanese poems...
Inquire within, find yourself
Perceive righteousness
Dance wind, dance faster
Flee, disaster disaster
Completely destroyed
Live benevolent
Together we change the world
Fulfill your one dream
Mania, no choice
Embrace, indulge to fullest
Take it, live it, breathe
Lunch Time!!
Miss Madison eating her lunch
"I love you pizza!" Miss Madison
Mister Nolan eating his lunch
"Cheeeeese!" Mister Nolan
Today I am taking care of my old roomate, and good friend's children. We just had a very messy, but fun lunch time. I love these little ones and miss them so much. It makes me so happy when they scream "MIR MIR!" when I come over to the house. They are the sweetest kids ever! I love them so much. While I'm writing this Nolan is hitting me with a soaking wet Spongebob beanie babie demanding I give the doll kisses... I give it a kiss and wipe my mouth when Nolan isn't looking. Madison is still intrigued by the corn on her plate and is spreading it across the table. A little artist who keeps shouting "Look wha done! Pretty!" Thank goodness she has lost interest in taking pictures with my phone it's all sticky and yuck. Haha back to taking care of the kiddos!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Hope
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Be it chilly outside
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Warmth
Monday, October 13, 2008
01:00
Tomorrow will come,
the sun will rise.
Together we bring the ingredients to thrive.
Sorrow is the only true enemy at hand.
We curse........
and quarrel to our own demise.
Endeavor to keep the circle alive
For today rarely forsaken,
not of the damned.
Aspirations: nirvana, be successful in my career path, to nurture, balance, explore, and start a family.
Realistic and some goals I realistically wont complete:
Travel to New Zealand, Egypt, The Middle East, The Himalayas, Guatemala, Alaska, Montana, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, North Carolina. Blow up something without causing harm to a single thing. Go skydiving, scuba dive amongst coral reefs (once I overcome my fear of breathing underwater) Get lost in a foreign land where I don't speak the language. Go deep sea fishing, fly kites, buy a kayak and use it often, white water raft more. Make and keep friends. Continue to conquer black diamond runs on my snowboard without letting them conquer the well being of my body. Be goofy. Accept things for what they are. Camp. Go free riding off of Diamond Peak. Ride bikes. Hike more. Have babies. Raise them. Pick mushrooms/huckleberries/blackberries/strawberries/apples/pears. Have a garden. Make compost for my garden. Do no harm. Rock out and be careless from time to time. Barbecue. Meet good people. Date nice men. Ride quads. Be snuggled. Spend life with nice man. Love. Swim across Waldo Lake. Be loved. Connect and get to know people as their genuine selves. Learn something new every day. Continue exercising regularly. Plant trees. Read books. Write a book. Write poetry. Sing. Dance. Laugh. Take long naps. Break nocturnal cycle. Get a place to myself. Fight fire. Own land. Help people. Save lives. Take pictures. Live in the wilderness by myself for a summer. Feed the hungry. Overcome loneliness. Volunteer. Donate. Remain honest. Fight for the truth and what I believe is the right thing.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
October Wonderland
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Unfinished
More than quiet livelihood
Entertaining the senses, purity and serene
Plunging and fluttering amongst the breeze
I wouldn't, Wait, Yes I would.
Forever will you dance with me?
The cool nights begin to freeze
All at once the life is gone
Until something strange becomes anew
As briskly appearing as the dawn
The chickadees all atwitter
Gentle changing iced morning dew
(....to be continued)
Monday, October 6, 2008
Searching
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Burn
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Plastics, make it impossible
I don't know what tomorrow holds.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Observing my bros
Channels are flying by and they stop suddenly, fixed on the most recent hurricane ready to pulverize the southern coast of the United States. A few empathy to those who will be affected words are spoken between them. And the obsenities resume as the channel disappears and morphs into another program.
Vulgarity spreads like the black death here when select folks are here with eachother. We become laughing loads of poo when lost in the unintelligent ramblings. Just like family. They are my family.
overview of recent blessings
I feel blessed.
Not by any form of divine being other than nature itself. Feeling the life that comes from this deluge of silence makes me feel so thankful to just be alive and breathing. The blood pulsating through my veins is a comforting reminder that just maybe I will be around to drink in all the wonders that will bestow themselves on me later in the day.
Like work.
I am so glad to have met many of the people I see while doing my checking and cleaning and money counting down at our local grocery store. I have made very valuable friends there that are very important characters in my life. The interaction I have with complete strangers touch my existance indefinitely. Positively and I suppose maybe sometimes in not so postive ways. Work is a need all humans have. Everyone must work. It may prove not very entertaining, annoying and a complete inconvience at times, but from what I learn every day just interacting with and watching a person's mannerisms make me strive to learn more about these strange beings named "homo sapien." Myself being one makes me reflect on the decisions and actions fellow people watch me act out and I hope I don't, to put it simply, have any negative effect on anyone's mood.
And I realize how loudly the clock is ticking....
In about five and a half hours I will be meeting a new friend for breakfast at a very nice and relaxing little restraunt half a mile from my abode. My roommate who is also a very dear friend is sleeping downstairs and every so often I hear her son of not even two years old admit a slight wimper. Her precious children that have so quickly and lovingly accepted me into their home warm me with their adorable little hands and gestures. Their small little lives are so precious and for that I feel blessed.
Drained
And I'm so exhausted that this random little sparkles of feeling that needed to come out will make sense to no one but myself so now I will shower and fall into unconciousness...
goodmorning....