Before I begin this entry, I'd like to share what motivated it: Today, I was at the Providence Place Mall. As we were walking in, I held the door for a Muslim woman and her children, truly not thinking anything of it, just trying to be polite. As she walked through the door, she didn't say "thank you" like I was used to. She turned to me and made ( Read more... )

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Is it possible to define every single aspect of existence;
to perfectly capture moments with words, photographs, or videos; 
to make every single person capable of feeling exactly what you are feeling..

Or are there certain emotions or thoughts, that are inexpressable, singular, indefinable...

At the end of your life, is it possible to sum up your ( Read more... )

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This is my cousin, Nicholas.

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I was halfway through writing an entry on the recent debate over the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, and in search of inspiration, decided to go to Sen. Barack Obama's website. I found this speech that he gave on the floor of the Senate, and it really put everything I wrote to shame. He says everything I believe but with so much insight, and he ( Read more... )

Racism... where did it come from?
Did it come from a void, from a need to feel as though there is, in existence, a lower being?
Did it come from pure hatred, from bad experiences from which one judges an entire race?
Did it come from a misunderstanding, or a prejudgment of something completely foreign to our own personal existence?
It must have come ( Read more... )