Epic Meal Time – Whistler
if you havent heard of epic meal time, youtube it. then go to the grocery store buy a ton of bacon and come to whistler tomorrow. the season send off for all the sweet people that blew the doors open on this place.
The Art of Flight
I know this winter is just winding down, but I can’t wait for next fall to come…just so I can watch The Art of FLIGHT when it gets released. Check out this trailer and be amazed!
Dear Western Society,
My life in a nutshell the last 3 months has been a learning and expanding period of my life.
I left Canada to slightly escape my life and to pour all the overflowing love I have into little Mexican children… or so I thought.
But really it has been and eye opening Emma Renovation! You see growing up in a society such as north American society,we are programed from a very young age that perfection is demanded of us and if you are not what our culture deems perfect you are not attractive.
In a women’s everyday life there is 50 to 70 negative messages projected into our brains about body image and looks a day, from Barbie to commercials, magazines, models and things people say.
This has been my constant battle, my arch nemesis in life, I have compared, dieted and compared and cried exercised and starved and cried and then ate ice cream sat in sweats then exercised then compared and gave up and bought stretchy lulu lemons…because lets face it who doesn’t look good in those. Ive dyed my hair more times than i could count, peirced my face more than once, and wore too much eyeliner for way to long. I’ve wished to be a different person my whole life, wanting to look like everyone but me….It has been 20 years and I’m still not Jessica Alba or a Victoria Secret model…SOO Its come to my attention that I need to put thoes un achievable thoughts to rest, once and for all.
My mexico game plan was been to be healthy and happy in my own skin. I took up spin class( which is deathly hard and you sweat like pig in a sauna)… running on the beach and attempting to surf which is really just me flailing in the water and biking on the ocean pier lots!
I threw away my eyeliner and have not died my hair in a year. So to say the least im attempting at being comfortable as me… and not trying to magically starve myself into Jennifer aniston, it has been at times discouraging because being this active I thought I would shrink a couple sizes but this has not been the case. In this tho I have realized that im made to be curvaceous and even when im healthy and active I will never be what the world says i should be. So I think what im trying to say is its taken me along time to realize that I’m not perfect by Hollywood’s standards, and ive wasted over half my life thinking about my weight and what I look like and if other people approve of me.
But I say no more! I’m sad that ive wasted so much time caring because beauty comes from somewhere deep inside people its not in there clothes or hair or what size they are it comes from being the best person we can be.
Watching the little girls in the slums here in Mexico has really made me understand all this, they run around with no shoes,tattered and dirty clothes and hair matted and laden with lice yet they are beautiful incredibly perfectly beautiful. They smile and laugh and all they want to do is hug and give love. I want that. I want to believe its easy, but its changing the way we think the way we see other women the way we see celebrities. I guess I just wanted to voice out loud that I’m done caring and that we all should be, because life is too short, we are all beautiful in out own ways and there is so much bigger and more important things to think about, than if im going to fit into a size 28…. and if this plan fails…guess ill just have to marry a man with chocolate skin because he wont care if i have more junk in my trunk than a Honda.
So my friends be encouraged. because you are beautiful.
The Lord Of Dogtown Has Surrendered.
yo check this, tony alva is the man! hes still punkrock so kiddies, cover your ears.
MERICA!
The host Americans broke into song as part of their update for the SFC International Conference. enjoy!
SFC International Conference
Summit County, CO. Dean Plumlee. 3 days of snow. Bluebird park laps at Keystone. Fast food. Dodgeball. Country Updates. New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Canada, AMERICA, UK, Switzerland and France…all represented. Worship at DCC. More food. Hot tub. So good!!! The next one is slated for Northstar, Japan in March 2013! Start making plans to be there!
