If my air freshener was a picture, it'd be this picture. 

Lavender & Chamomile.
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Thanksgiving.

As I slipped through my front door, hauling in all of my luggage, I couldn't help but feel overjoyed to be with my family. This holiday has been spent drinking countless mugs full of steaming chamomile tea, snuggling under my favorite blue plaid blanket on the couch with Elf or Harry Potter filling up the screen, and talking about life with my family while the smell of cookies in the oven filled the air. As I sit here in the living room, dreading packing up all my stuff again, I feel incredibly thankful for the life I've had and the wonderful people that have always been there for me. Leaving again will be hard, and I'm sure I'll shed a tear or two on the bus ride back to school, but I couldn't have had a better holiday to be thankful for. 

Iron & Wine.

First off, apologies for my absence. School has been taking over my life and for a while there, my day to day schedule was going to class, eating, studying, and sleeping as much as I could. Splendid ey?

This last Saturday I ventured to St. Louis to see the Iron & Wine concert (which was sold out), and it was probably one of the best shows I've been a part of. Singer and songwriter, Samuel Beam, blew me away with his mesmerizing vocals and soft strokes of his guitar. It was simply breathtaking to see how spellbound everyone in the audience was as he began with soft whispers into the microphone, and the sounds slowly escalated throughout the show as colored lights galloped across the back curtain.  

My two current favorite songs from Iron & Wine:

"Boy With a Coin"

"Upward Over the Mountain"