With the wind in his hair and the sun in his eye, Hansen Bellows is a pizza pie. #meaningful #sdp31

Uh… #liveauthentic? Does that work here? I guess?

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You can’t really see it in this photo but the red sunset was lighting up her hair and it looked like her head was on fire. #thisgirlisonfire

There’s so much world out there, it’s hard to come to grips with the fact that I’ll never see it all.

🎶 “I never was in love, you know that you were never good enough…” 🎶

Today I ate yogurt, toast, a banana, a turkey and avocado sandwich, some little packaged gummy thingies, nachos, cinnamon-sugar-butter-tortilla-goodness, applesauce, sausages, artichoke, salad, strawberries, nutella, carrots, apples, popcorn, and pot de creme. I also couldn’t think up a good caption for this photo.

I love the cold, and I need more of it.

Happy New Year from this guy.

…to all, and to all a good night!

Sometimes mistakes are cool. #filmisnotdead

Jensen and his Minolta. #postmoreportraits (Side note: finals week begins today and I’m dreading it.)

Hopefully I’m not the only one radically disappointed by the storm yesterday.

They’re saying tonight is gonna be the biggest storm Santa Cruz has had in ten years. And I am stoked out of my mind.

Excited for the future, sad for the present, longing for the past.

Stephen and the falls.

Was back in Yosemite today, climbed on rocks and stuff.

Bound. Our tree this year is a bit of a “Charlie Brown tree”. It’s lopsided, just a little too big and has a lot of dead branches. It just needs a little love. (But to be fair, my dad picked it out.)

Today I’m saying goodbye to my Oma as she flys up to Oregon to live the rest of her foreseeable days with my aunt.

Oma has Alzheimer’s disease, and it’s been heartbreaking to see her decline. My dad said last night that we’ve essentially been watching her die a little every day.

Yesterday, we had a little family get-together to eat delicious food and say goodbye to Oma. She was so tired. Eventually she started heading to bed, and right before she settled in for the night, we prayed over her and hugged her. She was practically falling over, she was so tired, but if there’s one thing that would keep Oma awake, it’s hugs. She could hug forever and ever and never get tired of it. Right after I hugged her and kissed her goodnight, she stuttered something like “I- I… la… lof.” We were upstairs laughing and crying and reminiscing and such when Oma woke up and meandered upstairs. When she saw us all she quickly realized it wasn’t morning and that she’d only been asleep about an hour. She laughed a little at that, and said things like “oh” and “psh”, and would point at us all and smile.

We all told her that it was okay and she ended up hugging a few of us again. Then, mid-hug, she pointed at her head and said, with quite a bit of strength, “is- is s-stupa!” We all of course comforted her and told her she wasn’t stupid, and she’d say “yes, yes” and we’d say “no, no” and such. After a few tears and hugs, my mom led us all in a chorus of “When We All Get To Heaven” and Oma joined in and danced a little. Then we sent her to bed.

I don’t know how many more days I’ll be able to see my Oma here on Earth. But I’m immeasurably excited to spend eternity with her. I want to listen to all her stories, I want to hear her funny Swiss accent, I want to see her as a beautiful young woman again. “When we all get to Heaven, What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus, We’ll sing and shout the victory!”

Church.

These memories of Yosemites. #rhymetime

Sunset jam sesh yesternight.

Awesome day, awesome folks, awesome food. Thankful for all of these things and so much more. #schlaebonjilkebburningerthanksgiving

Cheesecake Factory. Came up to SF to see Interstellar in 70mm IMAX, and I can safely say it’s my favorite film so far this year. Felt like the 2001: A Space Odyssey of our generation. Nine stars out of ten, fersher.

Got my @krochetkids beanie and I could not be more stoked. A) it feels GREAT and B) they’re doing great stuff in impoverished nations. #knowwhomadeit