"I will never be happy unless I accept the responsibility for getting my eyes off what other people possess or how much they succeed."

Dear people I love,

I hope you find joy. I hope one day we can hang out and you can truly say that you are happy. I hope I live to see the day you commit yourself to something bigger than yourself: love, God, justice, anything. I just want you to be happy.

Love,
Me.

I have the most beautifully flawed family. Past ten years have been shitty for my family, but somehow their flaws have become their most beautiful parts. God has taken their problems and transformed them into passions and ambitions. They have the hugest hearts and are not afraid to cry. They are not afraid to show their ugliest flaws and because of ( Read more... )

"So if I asked you about art you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written...Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But I bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked ( Read more... )

It's funny how the same things that attract you to a person can also drive you nuts! Like how he is so carefree and has this freedom that I look at and desire. Some days I look at him and just sit in awe of how beautiful life must look through his eyes. I desire that so much. I guess that is one of the reasons I am attracted to him because he ( Read more... )

"If humans could have one super power, what would it be?
I have finally decided that it would be the power to see things from another's perspective. You could be in a war and hear the enemy's mind praying to make it home safe. There wouldn't be as many wars."

-Hallie Geier

Uh so this week is Go Green week and it's pretty sweet. I was in the newspaper for an article on sweatshops and being a conscious consumer. Today Lent starts... I've decided to give up lying because I am a pathological liar about nothing important. It's pretty sweet. It's good for the character to fast from something. I haven't done the whole lent ( Read more... )

I am really excited because this week is Justice Week at school and Tony Hall is speaking, the showing of the Price of Sugar, and this sweet seminar on how to be a responsible consumer. There is also Q&A from sex and chocolate and healthcare in America. It gives me hope to see so many people pour their lives into this stuff. They really believe ( Read more... )

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Things are going so good! I am meeting really incredible people with a passion for life. I still miss being with people that know me inside and out, but soon ( Read more... )