5 of 52: Year of Ocean

Friday took me down to Santa Monica for a meeting, and I walked the beach for a quick moment afterwards. We're having a hell of a winter drought, which is awesome for our days of sun, but terrible for the environment. And I miss the cold, crispness of February in Los Angeles, but I know this is better than the snow being dumped on the East Coast.

Decided to shoot my photos with the Hipstamatic app - I was going for that sunburst of heat and SoCal living, but instead I think I captured it all too blown out. Which is appropriate, since that's how I've felt the past few weeks.

It's my 30th birthday this week and I'm wavering between catching up / recovery from so much work while still being proud and reflective about how far I've come. I find it difficult, often, to experience, capture, reflect and understand my life as it goes by. It all seems so much to take in, so much to process and feel and comprehend. I am caught up in the details and then sometimes manically speak about life epiphanies and it all just makes me want to blog more. To process and reflect in this little corner of the internets, to keep throwing down place markers and sign posts - this is new or I've been here before, no? - a map of some sort. 

Anyways, that's where I'm at. I missed a calendar week for this little project, but I  am not letting that deter me. This venture to the ocean on Friday proved my point. I sat on my shoes in the sand, in a dress, set the timer on my iPhone, and just stared at the ocean.

I needed that, and I think I'm going to continue needing it this whole year. xo

**See all of my Year of Ocean