I'm excited about this class.

"Herbal Medicine: Relevance for the 21st Century (2) Seminar--2 hours. Medicinal usage of plants from biological, historical, and cultural perspectives. Broad contexts of holistic and scientific paradigms for understanding herbal medicine. Saturday field trip to teach herb identification."
especially the field trip!

Adventure

I went on an adventure today. I biked down Russell Road for six miles enjoying the scenery, plants, and animals, and looking for a spot to sit and eat my lunch. After six miles the Russell Road and bike path ended at Three Palms nursery. There was what looked to be a sort of a path so I locked my bike to a fence and walked threw the grass next to a field. It looked like it was a spot where kids had hung out before because there was an open area with a few old chairs and random things. I went a little farther and found somewhere suitable to sit down and eat my sandwich. It was so nice to be away from all the people and sounds and buildings. Biking there and back it was wonderful to look out over the fields and see so much open space- the sky is amazing. It was fun not to have a destination and to just bike and enjoy it all. I saw a LOT of corvids, magpies are beautiful. I even saw some on the road with nuts, I assume they were trying to leave the nuts in the road so cars would run over them and the crows could then easily pick out the nut meat. So I saw where all the crows go during the day. I saw a great blue heron catch a tiny fish in a pond. And I saw baby sheep and big cows. Along with cactus and lots of blooming fruit trees. (Mom, remember the cactus we saw going to Rex's work? Didn't The Usual Rules remind you of that cactus? I bet that’s where her idea came from.) So here are a few pictures of my adventure. I bet the road is even prettier when its springtime and all the trees are green.








So that was my adventure. It was a nice overcast day. I have a feeling that it wouldn't be such a pleasant ride if it was hot and sunny. I was proud of myself for going and glad I biked 12 miles!

Today

I took the string off my wrist today. I put it on at the beginning to 8th grade for no particular reason. I saw it in our truck just lying around so I decided to tie it around my wrist. I thought I might take it off to signify some momentous event, like my first kiss or losing my virginity or something like that. But I left it on because I liked it. It didn’t wear out very quickly because its nylon. But recently it’s become kind of thin and covered with pink fuzz from my bed.
I was looking at it today thinking that I should take it off soon, and I thought about cutting it off at spring break, so there was something to correlate with when I took it off. I thought I might want to take it off at a specific turning point in my life. But then I decided that I was just going to take it off today, nothing special, its just time for it to no longer be on me. I want to keep the string, it means a lot to me, I'm not sure why, or what it means, but it's been on my wrist for six years. I guess in a way it kept me feeling individual, I always identified with the slightly awkward piece of string on my wrist. And getting really deep here, I think that I don’t need the reminder anymore, it will always be a part of me. My weird little piece of string that had no significance in the first place.
I know that is an incredibly intense analysis for a little piece of string but I've decided recently that instead of discrediting my extremely hippie thought I will acknowledge them and accept their probable validity.
The End.


And last night I had a dream that I was shot about 5 or 6 times, and I was with a group of people being chased and shot at by a majority. We were the minority and apparently they had a problem with us. So everyone had guns and would try and shoot at us if they saw us. I wish I could remember more of the dream. I was so afriad that it was real. I just starting thing, I know this is a dream, this is not real, but even when I was saying that in the dream i was afriad that it wasnt a dream.