Always looking for the next adventure...

Unfortunately, my last week of summer is in A-town! That's right, I am not ending summer with a bang! So after my quick trip across that great big blue thing called the ocean, I worked in Colorado for a while. Then my travel bug hit! I couldn't stay in Aurora for the whole summer! So I headed down to Lake Powell for some fun in the oh too hot sun. Somewhere along the way I found myself back in Prk City. This time, painting lifts! That's right I was a good ole fashion workin' girl! It was great though! The time flew by with biking, and scenic day trips! Now with the summer ending reality kicked in. So here I am stuck in Aurora for hopefully the last time... Ever!

I have been trying to make it worth my while. You can make anything an adventure! I remember when my backyard used to be the deep jungles of Africa! And the huge rock in front of the house, a ship sailing through the ocean! Where did that kind of imagination go? Who says it has to be! So my personal challenge for the remainder of my time here is to be creative! I am going to have the best damn time here in Aurora! It is going to be so amazing all of you will be green with envy!

So far, my only adventure was a crazy shopping trip to the ole Aurora Mall. Man was it thrilling! Check out the hotness! Yes, this dress was actually for sale! I actually hope it goes on clearance just so I can play dress up more often!! Watch out eighties here I come! Maybe I'll even get some neon tights to really spice it up! Well the adventures of A-town are just under way! Only six more days of out-of-control fun left! I better hurry!

World Music
by Kamau Daáood

one thousand saxophones
seven hundred kotos
eleven machetes dripping sugarcane
three hundred violins
six hundred fifty bagpipes
fresh cut bamboo screaming
nine thousand birds in prayer
two thousand mechanics
grease buried beneath short fingernails
eight hundred sitars
seven ten-foot gongs

one million tearless children in Ethiopia
three hundred hammers
two hundred saws
ten holy men in subways
twelve divine mothers in wash houses
fifteen hundred shovels in South African Mines
forty-nine koras and seventeen balaphones
seven thousand and three assorted drums
seven thousand and two assorted hearts
fifty steel drums

ten thousands midwives carrying fresh fruit
seventy purple banjos
half a million Muslims chanting Quran
six thousand birds of paradise
one hundred golden fishermen’s nets
three thousand silkworms
eight thousand waterfalls
seven trillion ten billion six hundred and
one million two hundred and four tubas
and one black chopstick