Wonderful Feeling, Wonderful Day

I'm starting to feel like everything is falling into place. I just feel like everything is going wonderfully right right now. For starters, it's fall, which means trees are pretty colors, the air is fresh, and the light takes on a fairytale-like quality. Where I live it's not even that cold, with highs in the 60s-70. My grades are the highest they have ever been, and I've applied to one college, with my application ready for others, I'm just too scared to click "Submit." I'm not the closest I've ever been with my close friends, but I'm starting to be less attached to them and do things that I really want to do on my own, because that's what I want to do. I'm figuring out what's important to me and what I want to get out of life. While I'm not sure of all the specifics, I'm starting to lay out some dots that I just need to connect. I've become more confident with what I want to major in in college, and now I couldn't be more excited about it. I have this amazing feeling that everything is going to work out well, that my dandelion wishes will come true.

New Blog Name

I never really liked my old blog name or URL, but I couldn't think of anything better, but recently a friend reminded of a song we sang at camp in Yosemite, and I remembered how inspired I was by it. I feel like it's a much better title for my blog, and it actually really has meaning to it. If you've ever been to camp, you might know this song. It's called On the Loose, or On the Loose to Climb a Mountain. I haven't found a version I really like on YouTube, but I want to post the lyrics here for you to read.

This past April I went on a trip to Yosemite National Park. It was a bunch of sophomores and juniors from our area in Northern California, and we spent a week there. It was the best week of my life. There are so many amazing aspects of Yosemite, and if you've never been there, I highly encourage you to plan a trip there. It's absolutely beautiful there, I can't really even begin to describe it. It's also so huge that it's incredible humbling. I felt so free when I was there, and for some reason I can't explain, it gave me a sense of "I can go out and make a difference in the world." We sang this song on our last night there, around a campfire, of course. It really embodies everything I felt while I was there, and I hope you find some meaning in it, too.

Did you ever watch the sunrise turn the sky completely red,

Have you slept beneath the moon and stars, a pine bough for your bed
Did you sit and talk with friends, though a word was never said,
Then you’re just like me and you’ve been on the loose.

Chorus:

On the loose to climb a mountain,
On the loose where I am free.
On the loose to live my life, the way I think my life should be,
For I’ve only got a moment and a whole world yet to see.
I’ll be looking for tomorrow on the loose.

There’s a trail that I’ll be hiking just to see where it might go.

Many places yet to visit, many people yet to know,
For in following in my dreams, I will live and I will grow,
On a trail that’s waiting out there on the loose.

Chorus

So in search of love and laughter, I’ll be traveling cross this land

Never sure of where I’m going, for I haven’t got a plan,
So in time when you are ready, come and join me and take my hand,
And together we’ll share life out there on the loose.

Chorus

In this world that I am traveling, I will think of you this way,

Remembering your smile, for it seems like yesterday
When we slept beneath the stars, and we dreamed about this day
Now we have come together on the loose.

Chorus

Do the trees in the forest make you sit and think of love?

Does it take you twenty times or more to count the stars above?
For I’m here now and I like it and the hours melt away,
And if I want I’ll stay here another day.

Chorus

As I sit and watch the sunset and the daylight softly fades,

I am thinking of tomorrow and the friendships we have made.
I will value them for always and I hope you’ll do the same,
And forever we’ll explore life on the loose.

Chorus

Now the moon is softly glowing and the stars are twinkling bright

Our laughter and our friendship have cleared this cloudy night
Come and join our flickering campfire, come and sing our happy songs
And together we’ll share life out on the loose.

Chorus