things I love (a great distraction // 2).

Happy President's Day friends! 

I hope your three day weekend was full of adventures. Or at least relaxing. Or...if you're me...furniture assembly. 

Anyway - here are some of the best things I've found on the internet lately. 

A really great essay from my favorite travel blogger. 

What would you take with you if your house was burning? 

A lesson in coffee slang from the NY Times. 

My first, and favorite, "adult" coffee table book. 

Thinking about this. For me (today), it's coffee shops that know my order before I have to say it, blogs that don't require a click through on my reader & a perfect 75 degree day.

She bakes and she writes. I accidentally saw a picture of you. 

I go back to the house for a book. 

love.lauren

words I love (the call of the wild).

But can't you hear the Wild? It's calling you. 
Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us; let us journey to a lonely land I know. 
There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us;
And the Wild is calling, calling...let us go. 

- Robert Service

read the full poem here (The Call of the Wild).