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Hi, I'm Shanti. Sassafras, foodie, social media junkie, twentysomething who loves Jesus, people, life, causing trouble and laughing too loud. I've come to the realization that for a girl who lives in technicolor, I sure wear a lot of black. follow me on twitter @shantimedina.
November 24

I just submitted the first half of my application to the Movement in Los Angelas.

hannahbanena:

I realize I never mentioned this before to anyone of you, sorry! :( However, you have heard a little bit about who hosts it, THE DREAM CENTER!

So guys, I would appreciate your prayers and support, while I go through the application process.

Guys, my heart is so into this. I need to do this. This is where I belong. I cannot tell you enough how much I want to do this, and how much I need to.

K more on it later, gotta leave my moms house and go back to my apartment.

Oh man, Matthew Barnett and the Dream Center = amazing. Of course you already know this, but i just felt the need to confirm. Our church works closely with them & I am gonna start volunteering with them soon. I’ll be praying for ya, love!

July 11

Kitchen Table

tktc:

I hope I remember these kinds of things. Sitting at the kitchen table with a book and a cold glass of pink. Cafe curtains blowing the breeze in and blue sky, white tufts and green leaves out the top half of the windows.

I hope I remember nights dancing around in my kitchen to the anya marina pandora station. Eating spoonfuls of chickpeas in pesto vinegarette and gulping a cold Scrimshaw.

July 8

I just bought my ticket to the screening of Julie and Julia at LACMA on July 28th! Can you say excited?

June 8

zoelulu:

whiskeyandgoatsmilk:

Bon Iver and Feist @ Radio City Music Hall.

Haunting

Awesome!  Love Feist and Bon Iver!!

Just what I needed tonight.

June 4

I can talk for hours about males, females, relationships, our differences, the craziness that happens when combined, but friends…I am all talk. When it comes to actually dating, I know nothing.

Or, I know things, but don’t necessarily know how to put that knowledge into action. Should be mighty interesting.

May 29

I am headed up north for a nice little 3 day weekend to a city you might have heard of. San Francisco. Yep, that city. I haven’t been since I was a kid and didn’t take much time to research/plan everything, so it will be a decide as we go type of trip. Except for a few things on my list…

*Dinner at Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Ok, fine. I got a reservation at the Cafe and am wait listed for downstairs. Either way, one thing to cross off of the 24 before twenty-four list.

*Tartine. Ever since I saw Jessi’s photo of that croque monsieur I just knew it was a must.

*Bourbon and Branch. I dig on the speak easy vibe. Don’t worry, I’ve got a res and a password.

Pretty darn excited. Photos and details when I get back from my adventure!

May 24

snippets - my sundays

favorite scarf. comfy lawn chair. the word, a book, the bookjournal. hibiscus in the backyard. hibiscus and palms. izzie girl. max aka maximus prime. blue sky. orange tree. artichokes. radishes. lilacs.

May 17
tktc: Thanks Smitten…guests in the garden will be pleased (and have clear sinuses thanks to that ugly hunk of horseradish). slim jims? never thought of using those. i haven’t had a bloody mary in ages, but build your own bloody mary brunches were a staple for me in chicago on saturday or sunday mornings. my reasoning was the more stuff the better - stuffed olives, salami cubes, celery, celery salt, cheese, deeeeelish.

tktc:

Thanks Smitten…guests in the garden will be pleased (and have clear sinuses thanks to that ugly hunk of horseradish).

slim jims? never thought of using those. i haven’t had a bloody mary in ages, but build your own bloody mary brunches were a staple for me in chicago on saturday or sunday mornings. my reasoning was the more stuff the better - stuffed olives, salami cubes, celery, celery salt, cheese, deeeeelish.

May 13
juliaallison: Meet Katie & Mike. After their “numerous attempts to have a more traditional wedding ended in complete failure,” they decided “eff it!” and bought two round trip tickets - around the world.  Now they’ll be visiting ten separate countries “with a tux and a dress and taking photos in front of every world wonder” (but doing the actual deed in Philly). Their wedding website - complete with a love-in-many-languages intro page (set to a One Republic tune), comprehensive lowercase’d menu bar (“the blog” “the links” “the faq”) and interactive trip map, is better designed and programmed than most actual revenue-generating sites.  Bottom line?  You’d hate them if you didn’t sort of want to be them.  Or marry them.  Or be friends with them and get invited to their wedding.  Or, at the very least, be a drunk date of one the friends invited to their wedding. It’s really nice to see a couple doing something totally unique with their special day.  After all, if two people can put up with each other during a 10 country trip like this - hell, marriage will look EASY. :) PS. I definitely teared up a few times while poking around this site.PPS. I also tried to RSVP.PPPS. I’m kidding.PPPPS. Sort of. Oh. My. Word. This is all sorts of awesome.

juliaallison:

Meet Katie & Mike.

After their “numerous attempts to have a more traditional wedding ended in complete failure,” they decided “eff it!” and bought two round trip tickets - around the world.  Now they’ll be visiting ten separate countries “with a tux and a dress and taking photos in front of every world wonder” (but doing the actual deed in Philly).

Their wedding website - complete with a love-in-many-languages intro page (set to a One Republic tune), comprehensive lowercase’d menu bar (“the blog” “the links” “the faq”) and interactive trip map, is better designed and programmed than most actual revenue-generating sites.  Bottom line?  You’d hate them if you didn’t sort of want to be them.  Or marry them.  Or be friends with them and get invited to their wedding.  Or, at the very least, be a drunk date of one the friends invited to their wedding.

It’s really nice to see a couple doing something totally unique with their special day.  After all, if two people can put up with each other during a 10 country trip like this - hell, marriage will look EASY. :)

PS. I definitely teared up a few times while poking around this site.
PPS. I also tried to RSVP.
PPPS. I’m kidding.
PPPPS. Sort of.

Oh. My. Word. This is all sorts of awesome.

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hannahbanena: Currently reading this book. Just picked up today. Oh Don Miller, how much do I love you? Please, marry me. I don’t care that you are sixteen years older than me. You are amazing. Ah, this book is pretty close to my heart. I read it for one of my life groups and was constantly just blown away and had my eyes opened. Oh! He’s speaking at Story out in Aurora in October. I think I’m going, you should go too!

hannahbanena:

Currently reading this book. Just picked up today. Oh Don Miller, how much do I love you? Please, marry me. I don’t care that you are sixteen years older than me. You are amazing.

Ah, this book is pretty close to my heart. I read it for one of my life groups and was constantly just blown away and had my eyes opened. Oh! He’s speaking at Story out in Aurora in October. I think I’m going, you should go too!

May 11
zoelulu: (via overflowing)

zoelulu:

(via overflowing)
May 7
“ There’s no job posting for your dream Ben Arment
April 30
hannahbanena: fiend-for-nicotine: entrails: in-jail: fuckyeahtattoos: piratekitten: i just found out the story of this tattoo…A case in point is Beth Loster, 24, a San Francisco writer and waitress who was a student at UC Berkeley when she met a young man who said, “Hey, we have tattoos in the same font.” The text of her tattoo - “clad in the panoply of love” - came from “Science & Health” by Mary Baker Eddy. “I like the way the written word looks on the body,” she said. “And that phrase made me feel safe.” His tattoo, also in a “typewriter” typeface, was in Latin. (She can’t recall the translation.) The text of Loster’s next tattoo was written by that young man, who had become her boyfriend. Before leaving for South America, where he was going to study, he left a note on her refrigerator that began, “this is on account of my loving you forever.” That phrase - in the form of a tattoo - offered her comfort when he was killed in a car accident in Brazil. wow.

hannahbanena:

fiend-for-nicotine:

entrails:

in-jail:

fuckyeahtattoos:

piratekitten:

i just found out the story of this tattoo…
A case in point is Beth Loster, 24, a San Francisco writer and waitress who was a student at UC Berkeley when she met a young man who said, “Hey, we have tattoos in the same font.”

The text of her tattoo - “clad in the panoply of love” - came from “Science & Health” by Mary Baker Eddy. “I like the way the written word looks on the body,” she said. “And that phrase made me feel safe.” His tattoo, also in a “typewriter” typeface, was in Latin. (She can’t recall the translation.)

The text of Loster’s next tattoo was written by that young man, who had become her boyfriend. Before leaving for South America, where he was going to study, he left a note on her refrigerator that began, “this is on account of my loving you forever.” That phrase - in the form of a tattoo - offered her comfort when he was killed in a car accident in Brazil.

wow.

April 27
the minute the fasten seat belt sign turned off i leaped across the aisle to try and get a quick photo in. just a glimpse of that skyline warms my heart.

the minute the fasten seat belt sign turned off i leaped across the aisle to try and get a quick photo in. just a glimpse of that skyline warms my heart.

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country roads.

country roads.