Eye Candy

Since I am a 'dreamer' type... Pinterest is my vice.  Here are some things that I thought were pretty darn Pinteresting lately...

peace & love

baily

Inspirational Video

http://vimeo.com/14074949
(for some reason I couldn't get it to imbed, so visit it on vimeo by clicking on the URL, thanks!)

One of the reasons our relationship is so special is because we get each other, we understand one another's need for inspiration, and we live adventurously and creatively.  That's why I found it NO SURPRISE that I was completely moved and inspired beyond measure when Clay told me I just 'had to watch this video.' 

I love watching the videos that Clay finds interesting because odds are I find them just as interesting and, like I said, they are usually really motivational. 

This clip is such a cool glimpse at one of the many beautiful things about the world of surfing - in which I've learned SO MUCH about since we started dating four months ago!  Even as a beach-loving, Florida chick I had (and still have!) a lot to learn but I've got a good teacher if you ask me! :)

There's just something about how beautiful it is, and this video captures it.  Some of the happiest days I've experienced in such a long time have been spent standing with the wind at my back, the sun in my face, and a glorious view of the ocean and a guy who loves me like no other riding the waves.  I love watching him!

I wish I had some extra special photography skills so I could cage those memories onto film for him like this...

Hope you enjoy!

peace and love

baily

quote>inspiration>blog

So if you know me, then you are probably my friend on Facebook.  If you really know me, then I have probably let you peep through one of my journals a time or two (except not the juicy stuff, duh).  And if you've been reading my blog, then you've seen me go quote-crazy a time or two.  My Facebook friends see me go quote crazy once a day - usually, and sometimes - even 2 or 3 times a day.  My tweets are often quote-based and my journals are often just a mess of doodled quotes here and there.  I guess that's who I am - a jumbled mess of ideas and words that I wish I could write as well as the person I've quoted.  But nonetheless, that point I was trying to make right there is that I like love quotes.

In school, I've put together a couple of pretty neat projects that were based around quotes even.  I am pretty sure that the wonderful housekeeping ladies @ the Fairfield Inn this summer think I am a hoarder of plastic bins... (that is a special thanks to my Daddy)... and also a hoarder of little scraplets of paper and die-cuts that have meaningful quotes written across them.  Haha, they were totally everywhere - c'mon, I was going through the roughest time in my entire life and so I tended to scribble an inspiring note here and there with high hopes of having just that - high hopes! (And of course I left out any organizational skills that my storage bin loving Dad possibly handed down to me) So when I blew the giant meat-freezer of an air-conditioner that the hotel provides, my little scraps of faith, hope, and love would just go everywhere - absolutely nuts-like... but my gals always had my back and would re-organize them for me on my desk.  Only to be blown away when I got up from the first fire nightmare.  But anyway, I was thinking today (rainy day... the norm for this time of year in Alabama) and thought about how I needed to send down and write and let out some energy that I've needed to exert - and what greater way but to wRiTe!!! None.

But I couldn't think of what I wanted to write about.  Something more than just catching up on what I've been doing.  I needed something a little bit more inspiring than that... just to clear some clouds or smoke or whatever from my head.  So, since I couldn't figure out what to write about I decided I would wait for a good quote to catch my eye and of course that always cures the dreaded writer's block disease.  OF COURSE > a few quotes caught my eye and got me on a little inspirational high... but, in the end, it all comes down to one right? ;)  Well my quote of inspiration for me, myself, and I for today was this (and I hope it maybe inspires whoever else is reading this as well...)

"if there is to be any  p.e.a.c.e  it is to come through b.e.i.n.g and not h.a.v.i.n.g." -henry miller

After what I have been through, there isn't much that I can say to sum it up any better than that.  I have been SO blessed and SO fortunate to  h.a.v.e  all of the things that I do, just 7 months after losing mostly EVERYTHING.  There comes a time in everyone's life, I have come to believe, that you have to get down to the heart of things.  Not just on the surface level, the real level... deep deep down in there.  The soul-wrenching feeling stuff. 

If you are one of the ones that know me, then I'm sure you may have thought that enough had happened to me (the hard way of course) before 7 months ago, and felt the loss with me of all the "things" that seemed to precious to me back then.  Or, if you know me, then maybe you think that I'm a tough little survivor child and I would muster up that inner-strength that I've always been able to show in times of trouble.  If you didn't know me, then you got to read about my journey via this blog that I've seemed to have abandoned here lately.  But either way, you have probably witnessed my passions in one way or another.

-the want to help people
-the need to find the meaning in everything that happens (good and bad)
-the desire to not only find, but also create and keep re-creating, myself
-the love for God, family, and friends
-children
-sports
-new experiences and travel

In basic-mode, those are them - my passions!  Tell me if I am incorrect, but I didn't list a single 'tHiNg' in that list of burning passions I have!  Just meaning, philanthropy, love, children, sports, travel, and creating myself... makes it easier to see, now, why I've been able to handle the brutal amounts of 'stuff' that was lost in that fire. 

But not only did I feel like I lost a lifetime of belongings, I also felt like I lost some success, some hardwork, a couple pieces of my heart, a few tokens from Memory Lane, and a large amount of sanity and peace of mind.  To be brutally honest (and pardon my French) but this summer - I was batshit crazy!!!!!!!!!!!! Spinning out of control and barely keeping my head above water. 

Then I got some of my life back together, I let time do it's thing and move me forward, and I found a peace of mind in myself and in love.  So today when I saw that quote, If there is to be any peace it is to come through being and not having , I truly let it speak to me and ease my mind.  I let the rainy day put me in a tranquil state and I sat down, alone in a room, and I let it remind me of everything I have to be grateful for.  I let it remind me of my passions and how BEING a lover of life and BEING myself is much better than HAVING all of these things to call "mine, mine, mine." 

So, if you were hoping that I would chill it with the quotes on the 'book, my blog, and the tweet-tweets... you are S.O.L. (I'm working on my potty mouth due to my pregnant friend and future job with children... but I'm still Baily).  Everyone needs a good quote once and a while, so if it annoys you I don't care... I get more messages in my FB inbox saying the contrary, so pipe it!

I'm piping it now!

Peace and Love

b a i l y

be as you are

a word (or quote) from daisy alter-ego



My makeup is many different people and many different experiences. 

 I believe in making things so personal,

that they become universal.

-Radcliffe Bailey

be the change,

daisy

pictures of me

Have you ever gathered pictures of yourself that are NOT photographs of you? Did I just confuse the daylights out of you???


I've made a new friend recently and I easily noticed that the things that I type out in a text or in a blog could come across as looney/koo-koo and make me sound 'a little off my rocker', but then I realized that
E V E R Y T H I N G   I was saying was coming off that way so I give up.  Like I told my new friend, take me with a grain of salt... but come to think of it, just grab you a pinch and sprinkle lightly.

a writer not a fighter

need 5 extra minutes when getting ready to put on my sleeve of bohemian bracelets

there is nothing better than cotton candy, at all

not my view as i write to you, but i wish it was

could quite possibly kill someone for that top

looks like journal stand :)

this girl is like me and from orlando, but tries everything

she can to divert the mickey mouse crap

obsessed with BOTH her and our shades: 'Bans and FIRE ENGINE RED :)

if ya ever get bored, just go to the record store and visit your friends. -penny lane

could eat a hot dog for the rest of my life and be okay with that (add slaw and chili please!)

me, circa 2 weeks ago. Homeless, vagabond, hobo, gypsy who slept on couches & lived out of luggage, yep...

 (my Vera Bradley was a tad bit cuter than her concoction)

because in my group of homies... no one can decide on the same beer... no, too easy

"if you don't know where you are going any road will get you there"

you still give me goosebumps, hot mama. thanks for making our jersey number so cool.

quite literally thought that was me for a second, not kidding

how Southernly romantic; rollin in the hay haha

sing it to me baby

THE city

ok life, upward we go :)

i want one of these lovely barns the size of the Ark one day,

ok future luckiest man in the world?

p&l

-daisy, today

new moon

'A true soul-mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul-mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. Soul-mates - they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.' -EPL

pack what's important

reflect on days gone by

remember a similar time in life, when things were windy like this (and had stairs like this)

since we have to take the ride, enjoy the view and let it be

keep your eye on the prize and remember the goal

(the pretty college of education at bama)

I hate that it had to be you.

I'm going to let the wind blow me in the right direction

she needed wide open spaces and room to make her big mistakes

Don't hold back. Go all out. And make the little things in life the BEST ones.

Be colorful. But be a product of another generation - keep the old and good things going.

STOP blaming myself for everything and STOP believing only my worst reviews!

Be a daisy. Open up. Brighten people's days. And be hand-picked by the children.

remember that life is a carousel... i've always been intrigued by carousels.

somebody used to catch me staring in whimsy every time we went to the mall

'it reminds me of when something so simple - a stationary animal on a twirling stage - paints wonder and happiness on the children's faces' is what I said when they asked me what I was doing. I know they loved me because that's when I got the wink.

free-bird soul and a broken wing

but the moonchildren sing songs and broken wings aren't broken anymore

thanks for putting me back together

and giving me a boost of morale

and reminding me to keep it simple

and for loving really really good music

peace and love

sunbeam