Deep Thoughts

Existential Crisis Of The Week: Am I Living My Values?? That's the question on my mind these days. Last week I went to a lecture on Climate Change + The Local Economy by one of my favorite Utah humans, Rocky Anderson. He provided a brief and up-to-date lecture on climate change and it's impacts on Utah's economy. At the very end, as I'm thoughtfully pleading for more reminders of what I can do to help reverse the damage to our planet, he says, "Utahn's need to start living their values." And I've been internalizing that question all week. The urgency of climate action is staring us in the face. My memories of past winters do not match this year's. The storm this week was another wake up call. The warmth in my mountainous city is clearly not a phase. It's climate changing in front of us. I felt called to check myself and make it a goal to continue to check myself here on Deep Thoughts on a more consistent basis. As I adjust to life

It's Sunday night and I'm already late on my next blog post deadline. I just got my computer back from the Apple store after EIGHT DAYS of not having it. Before that I had written a great "Luperon: Part 1" blog post and was moving onto Part 2 until I realized that Part 1 never published and I actually lost the entire thing! That same day I parking ticket, bc never got my registration stickers and have to go to the DMV to get a friggin STICKER. Also need to take the guitar into the shop. Still calling Apple to get my laptop back. And then, because I said there was a theme, my car got towed out of my girlfriend's parking lot in the middle of the night. I spent yesterday morning in an all-time GRUMPY level as we retrieved my car from the tow-yard and threw some money down the drain. And if you think this blog post just looks like a paragraph of me complaining - that's because it is!!!!  I can't go around acting like my life is so pretty and perfect all the ti

This page once had a great story about a girl and a girl who went on an incredible adventure through the Dominican Republic. That story was lost in the great abyss that is the world wide web. The author is currently working on bringing that story back to life. Stay tuned. Jane.