it's almost summer, it's almost something new

Okay folks--title is official for Jesse: Quality Control Specialist for Gimme!; and for me, Outreach Coordinator with Rasa Spa. Jesse is feeling directed, aware of what he's doing and what he wants to do and both of our minds are spinning with potential ideas and the full awareness of how hard it is to find support and peers for some of our bigger ideas.

As usual, we're hoping for the best and pushing forward with our new direction.

It's been challenging to leave education and see how hard it is to find funding, project incentive, and relationships with coworkers that enable really cool projects and ideas to manifest. I've been struggling with the difference in field and the difference in what it means to "work" in different fields. It's not a negative struggle by any means, just a new way of tilting my head and seeing.

Speaking of seeing--the weekend really gave us a peek at our potential hike-a-thon of a summer and it made me think, again, about sounds and how much I like listening to nature.

Sketch a day from saturday, 21 May 2011. I'm trying to write again and I think sketch a day is going to quickly switch to illuminated sketch a day.

Yesterday was a good chance to call an old friend. I got his answering machine, but it felt warm and nice to hear his voice on the machine and remember some good times we shared. This came after a car conversation with Jesse about how often or how infrequently we both get to "really relax." I told him that I remember driving in cars with Tara--on our way to Chatauqua once and in South Caroline--where I was fully relaxed: like leg out the window, eating in the car relaxed. We weren't allowed to do that often since my father's a bit of a neat freak; there was something special about it being "us" and making up our own rules. The only other "fully relaxed" moments I can remember (aside from being a kid) involve this old friend I called up...and I wonder what it was about him that made me feel like that.

My new favorite cocktail is a bit like a relaxed flavor and scent too. It's clean and herbal-y. I told Jesse it tasted like the color soft yellow; I guess, according to him, it's not uncommon to "taste a color" and doesn't mean (sadly) that I have synesthesia.