*COURAGE*DICIPLINE*INTEGRITY*WISDOM*COMPASSION ( Read more... )

I like to think I live my life with little regard to money. I don't feel that it should be all consuming and important, yet I find myself being consumed by financial woes when I can't afford to buy groceries or put gas in my car. It's bad enough I can't be with my family for the holidays, and now I can't afford to send them a package either. I ( Read more... )

*even tho he hadn't ridden in a few days due to volunteering at a race, he spent the afternoon very patiently and calmly and positively teaching my roommate how to snowboard, she had never been before in her life ( Read more... )

Summer 2009 ( Read more... )

winter 2009 ( Read more... )

Schedules are hard to coordinate, but this shouldn't be a reason to push my favoirte activites to the side. I shouldn't let the fact that I can't find someone to go on a hike with me stop me from having an adventure. Granted it's safer to venture into the wilderness with a friend, but I have a friend, Sunshine. She may have 4 legs and a little ( Read more... )

accepting the reality of your own death is a challenging thing to wrap your brain around ( Read more... )

I have had serious writers block or lack of ambition or something blah blah blah for over a year, there have been several life changing events, thus the writer's block, how do you write about things that are that important, that life altering, that.... that... that is what i don't know how to put into words, to do it justice, to truely express the ( Read more... )

Dear Live Journal,

Please don't delete my account; I will use it again one day. I promise.

Sincerely,

Beth

i haven't written in forever b/c i have experienced true writers' block. there are a few specific things in my life i would like to share and record and i don't know how to do it and i feel like i can't write anything else until i get them out first. i don't know how to put truely life altering events/experiences into words and make the impact it ( Read more... )