Soar

Here's some beautiful inspiration for you. Put on the song below and just look at the picture. Listen, relax and be inspired:

xoxo

Ramona

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Like an Eagle

Last weekend we had our annual you(th) Winter Weekend. It is always a very special time. Time set apart to be in the Alps. Time to refresh, make decisions and just enjoy the snow. I remembered how a few years ago I made one of the most important decisions until then on a Winter Weekend.

Anyways, the Alps... you know they just do something to you. Everytime you see them again it's like discovering them for the very first time again. I am always amazed at the beauty God created when I see them.

And looking at them and looking at my life I made the choice to start taking my wings out and start soaring like an eagle. Rising above all the things that try to keep me down. I chose to rise and soar. To fly higher and higher and breathe in the fresh air and allow God to take me to new places.

Hope your weekend was fruitful.

xoxo

Ramona

In the Rain

Dear Husband to be,

one day you and I will be kissing in the rain...

xoxo

Ramona


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The good of it

Writing new chapters of adventure and creating new dreams is a process. Change is a process and I have elaborated on it a lot lately. Hence today I just want to share some really good and fun times of recent. Because there were. And the great thing is that again and again I see and experience how amazing my friends are, how important people are to me and how I make new memories in all of the process.
So... I just thought I'd share some pictures that capture exactly that:

Sledding with my friends. Something I hadn't done in years. We had so much fun and it was like diving into Winter Wonderland!

Watching Tristan and Isolde with my friend Larissa. Yay for crossing off yet another movie from our list :-)

Dream Team Banquet. I'm always in for dressing up, trying new hairdos and make up :-) 

The Gavin deGraw concert which was just amazing. I've been listening to his music for many years and seeing him live now was awesome.

I added most of my favorite songs to my Current Soundtrack so you get to share in the fun too.

I guess that's it. Happy Friday, friends!

Make the most of every day.

xoxo

Ramona

Taking Steps

Sometimes we take three steps forward and two steps behind. But in the end we've still moved forward and that's the most important thing. To keep moving forward!

xoxo

Ramona

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Can't make you love me

I'm sorry that I am posting such a sad song on Valentines Day. It has nothing to do with that :-) I'm single, so I don't celebrate V-Day.
I just wanted to share this song for its beauty and because I cannot stop listening to it. Bon Iver's voice touches my soul.

xoxo

Ramona

Surface

These last couple of weeks I somehow felt like living underneath the surface. A lot was going on there for sure and it's not like I was not present. I had just dived into the water, had disappeared for a little while. Maybe nobody but me sees it that way but it sure felt that way.
But slowly, very slowly I am starting to come out of the water again, making an appearance. Bit by bit, layer by layer.
Maybe this is already a messenger of Spring and all the new life it is going to bring.
Time will tell as I re-surface from the water.

xoxo

Ramona

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Thursday Tunes

Lifehouse used to be one of my favorite bands, but for a few years I was barely able to listen to any of the songs because they reminded me of a time I didn't want to be reminded of.
Of course that is not the case anymore and I really still love their older albums like No Name Face or Stanley Climbfall.
One of my favorite songs still is Storm and it came up on my itunes the other day and I knew I had to share because it is one of these songs that just let's me freeze everything I am doing, catches my attention and brings me to tears.
The lyrics are beautiful, so enjoy:

How long have I been in this storm?
So overwhelmed by the ocean's shapeless form
Water's getting harder to tread
With these waves crashing over my head

If I could just see you
Everything would be all right
If I'd see you
This darkness would turn to light

And I will walk on water
And you will catch me if I fall
And I will get lost into your eyes
I know everything will be alright
I know everything is alright

I know you didn't bring me out here to drown
So why am I ten feet under and upside down
Barely surviving has become my purpose
Cause I'm so used to living underneath the surface

If I could just see you
Everything would be all right
If I'd see you
This darkness would turn to light

And I will walk on water
And you will catch me if I fall
And I will get lost into your eyes
I know everything will be alright

And I will walk on water
You will catch me if I fall
And I will get lost into your eyes
I know everything will be alright
I know everthing is alright

Everything is alright
Everything is alright

xoxo

Ramona

A blanket of White

With February also came the snow falling like hope out of the sky. It was covering up everything that was with a blanket of white making space for new footprints.

xoxo

Ramona

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I cannot believe how fast time is passing. January is over? What? How quickly 5 little weeks pass and how many things can happen in such little time.
February, I embrace you. Let there be new hope. New beginnings. New choices. Let there be rest and new freshness and prepare me for new life in Spring.

xoxo

Ramona