Abbie, Oliver and I went on a hike at Wehle Park today. It was a pretty awesome time. I really want to go back so to check out more of the trails. It was my first time hiking there (even though it literally is a 5 minute drive from my house), so we got a little lost. And ended up coming out in the wrong spot so we had to walk another two miles on ( Read more... )

Hm Herm Herm Hm Mer Mer Mer...

Just some writing. Perhaps someday I'll take the time to sit down and turn my writing into something good. Until then...

Coffee cup circular stains on my heart
Seeping through the pages as they fall apart
Where oh where have you gone
I wonder as I lay out on the lawn
Like all of the forgotten pieces of litter
You could say I ( Read more... )

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1. Took the dogs to the vet. Always an ordeal. Sam was in his harness and was muzzled. Good thing because he totally freaked out in the waiting room as I was desperately trying to walk him out the door. Thank god I'm deceptively strong because I literally had to yank him out the door as he spastically wrenched his body around trying to free ( Read more... )

Restless

Restless, she wanders
Thoughts running by the by
Confusion on her brow
She looks toward the sky

Puzzled as what to do
"Should have I?"
The question russles her
Her life is such a lie


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We're all familiar with Michael Douglas' performance in the film Wall Street, as Gordon Gekko exclaims: "Greed is Good!" This phrase is also heavily associated with American economist, Milton Friedman.

I can't help but notice the discrepancy here: Greed is good but it is also a Cardinal sin? Not that I believe that Catholicism doesn't have it's own ( Read more... )

Lady Gaga is a Visionary.
Lady Gaga is an Artist.
Lady Gaga is a Humanitarian.
Lady Gaga is Love.

Gaga


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Written for the Rosa Parks Scholarship, celebrating multiculturalism

THE MESSENGER

There were pieces that couldn’t fit in

Like lost puzzle pieces, you can’t win

Just tiny pieces of pigment on your skin

Tainting the innocence, where to begin?

Emerging from youth came a small boy

Carrying only a dream and a raggedy toy

In that dream he knew what was right

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