Ipod full of memories

It always makes me laugh when old "flings" - if that's what you'd like to call it - rear their ugly head only to stir up enough curiosity to drive you insane. And just like that, they're gone. I analyze everything and those kinds of unpredictable encounters is enough to send my stress levels off the chart. At the end of the day, it makes me smile & even laugh & often wonder, if somewhere down the road, maybe... just maybe...

Over the past few days, I have recognized a few favorite things that I have taken for granted my entire life:

• raised on the water and on a boat, the feeling of salt in my hair and sun on my skin-- I'm convinced,  is good for my soul.
• mine and my brother's rekindled relationship. cMn leaving for college was more difficult than I could have ever imagined. it's wonderful watching him grow into an amazing gentleman but difficult to swallow that he's not my baby anymore.
• home is not a place but a state of mind. how non-blood relatives have become just as important to me as my 'big, fat Italian family" I left behind in New Jersey.
• To stop analyzing 'where I belong' and just go with the tides. in the end, I'll end up where I'm supposed to.
• play that old iPod on shuffle every now-and-then. amazing the memories and emotions those old songs you forgot about, can stir up. a comforting feeling.

To more of summer and the newest and most random bucket list my roommate and I wrote up last night. Hopefully some pictures to come soon!