Some Highlights of the Shortest Month (Partial List, In No Order)

80 for Brady with Lo, extra popcorn, Saturday matinee

Hiking the Observatory with friends I knew in college who knew me in high school

Pastries with my dad

Rewatching My So-Called Life on the projector in the bedroom

Mexican restaurant booth, free chips and salsa

Invite to the pinkest, cutest, Galentines party in town

Email from a very important woman: "Looking forward to our paths crossing again soon!"

Fuge with two of my favorite performers

What a week: closing a deal, celebrating with a karaoke truck, pitching anew in the morning, filming a music improv TV episode the next morning, hiking a mountain with a bachelorette party the next morning

Three other gals and I lighting prayer candles at the vegan restaurant for delusions

Walking the river and discussing union power with someone who's lost someone

Tried my hand at writing a difficult essay, positive reviews from my first reader

Double date with friends who feel like friends

An incredible play in Atwater

Changing Mur's life, he says

Tried to huddle in a corner of the Pasadena cafe, but someone had staked her claim. Ended up with a much better seat against the fireplace. I hunkered there for hours. An old man told me he was celebrating his birthday. He warned that God gave me a brain to follow my own path, not be part of someone else's.

Nobody tells you when you're young / how some friends will become strangers / and there is no greater danger than to live in fear. / Nobody tells you when you're young / cause a rebel heart won't listen / but to grow you must go missing, just don't disappear. / The wisdom's in the living, not the years.

Valentine

 

The sun is only half as bright as your light
The ocean only half as deep
And all of time and space may make up a life
But you're the one that makes living so sweet