Sufjan Stevens - Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing

Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
I'll praise the mount I'm fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love

Here I raise my Ebenezer
Hither by Thy help I come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wondering from the fold of God
He, to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood

O to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee
Prone to wander Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart Lord, take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above

Madeleine Peyroux - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

I heard this gorgeous Bob Dylan cover in one of this year's Oscar-nominated short films, Manon Sur Le Bitume, and it's been my favorite song for the past week or so.

What I've Been Up To Since Obama Got Elected

Spent a fog-free Christmas morning on the Golden Gate BridgeWalked the boho-licious streets of Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco

Hung out at the Hoover Dam

Got to see my dear manatees at SeaWorld, San Diego (pictures of the real ones didn't turn out good)

Marveled at the sunset at La Jolla, San Diego

Got a visual overdose of palm trees

Posed, OC style, at Santa Monica Beach near LA

Felt small against the big blue sky

Watched Blue Man Group in Las Vegas

Pretended to be a Stanford smarty

Re-connected with old friends and made a new one

Received a lovely Hepburn tote from Mark xxx

Painted my dustbin/trashcan/rubbishreceptacle

Painted my table lamp, which now looks like a circus tent/peppermint