This is about healing. This is about love. This is about recovery and empowerment.
February 27, 2010
together
reasons to smile
This might make me a dork but I love friday nights because I get to stay up after everyone else falls asleep and sing my favorite songs at the top of my lungs. It makes me happy!
=]
February 25, 2010
I want to be a bumblebee
and she realized.
February 23, 2010
what what!
February 22, 2010
hey you,
February 21, 2010
I love my mommy♥
Songs for My Mother
by Anna Hempstead Branch
I
Her Hands
My mother's hands are cool and fair,
They can do anything.
Delicate mercies hide them there
Like flowers in the spring.
When I was small and could not sleep,
She used to come to me,
And with my cheek upon her hand
How sure my rest would be.
For everything she ever touched
Of beautiful or fine,
Their memories living in her hands
Would warm that sleep of mine.
Her hands remember how they played
One time in meadow streams, --
And all the flickering song and shade
Of water took my dreams.
Swift through her haunted fingers pass
Memories of garden things; --
I dipped my face in flowers and grass
And sounds of hidden wings.
One time she touched the cloud that kissed
Brown pastures bleak and far; --
I leaned my cheek into a mist
And thought I was a star.
All this was very long ago
And I am grown; but yet
The hand that lured my slumber so
I never can forget.
For still when drowsiness comes on
It seems so soft and cool,
Shaped happily beneath my cheek,
Hollow and beautiful.
II
Her Words
My mother has the prettiest tricks
Of words and words and words.
Her talk comes out as smooth and sleek
As breasts of singing birds.
She shapes her speech all silver fine
Because she loves it so.
And her own eyes begin to shine
To hear her stories grow.
And if she goes to make a call
Or out to take a walk
We leave our work when she returns
And run to hear her talk.
We had not dreamed these things were so
Of sorrow and of mirth.
Her speech is as a thousand eyes
Through which we see the earth.
God wove a web of loveliness,
Of clouds and stars and birds,
But made not any thing at all
So beautiful as words.
They shine around our simple earth
With golden shadowings,
And every common thing they touch
Is exquisite with wings.
There's nothing poor and nothing small
But is made fair with them.
They are the hands of living faith
That touch the garment's hem.
They are as fair as bloom or air,
They shine like any star,
And I am rich who learned from her
How beautiful they are.
February 20, 2010
message from God on facebook :)
You deserve a little lift :)
February 19, 2010
Competition
I went to sonic and had one of their awesome route 44 slushis, it was lime and pineapple and it had real fresh fruit in it. I fell in love. It was so delicious and refreshing! yum yum yum. I'm thinking about convincing my mom to buy me another one this weekend.
We spelled out HOSA in soda cans! haha. so much fun.
oh and HOSA stands for Health Occupation Students of America :)
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The author, Patricia McCormick traveled to Nepal and India to interview girls who had the same fate and are currently trying to save other girls from ending up just like that. I highly recommend this book. Its really good. It gives me hope. It doesn't rain forever. =] ♥
off to read more books....who knows where my books are going to take me next :)
Temple Grandin.
February 18, 2010
woot woot :)
February 17, 2010
Favorite Disney Princess
- I want her house, well her palace, mainly because of her library. Have you seen it? It's huge.
- Her love of reading. She loves the adventure that comes from reading and so do I. I've always loved books for that reason. Reading is like traveling without leaving your room.
- The obvious one, she fell in love with someone for who they really are and not just what they look like.
- She was strange but special, she was herself even though it wasn't accepted at the time to be a woman and a bookworm but she did it because that's what she felt was right in her heart. She had ideas and thoughts and she was proud of them like we all should be.
- She went with her heart. ♥
quotes I like from Beauty and the Beast:
- "We don't like what we don't understand" So true even though I think sometimes we're drawn to a mystery.
- "I want adventure in the great wide somewhere. I want it more than I can tell. And for once it might be grand, to have someone understand... I want so much more than they've got planned. "
- "There may be something there that wasn't there before"
Be fearless...
=]
February 14, 2010
The 14th of February ♥
Well my Valentine's Day was spent with me pretty much going on adventures in my imagination. I'm pretty sure that's still a good thing for me to being doing. What would our lives be like if we didn't have our imaginations? Anyway, when I was off daydreaming, imaginary me was traveling all around the world. My imaginary adventures were probably sparked my the missionary who came to my church today. He travels the world teaching about God and he's been to so many places. I wish to travel that much. I love learning about other cultures and lifestyles. It's so beautiful. He said something that really found my heart, "we shouldn't be afraid of people just because they don't look like us." I think all people are beautiful, that's why I want to travel so much. I want to see beauty the way people in other parts of the world see it. I want to see the things that make them smile and complete their hearts. I want to see what makes them who they are and what makes them so beautiful. It seems like it would be an amazing adventure! I think It will have to start with me maybe getting my own car and a job....
February 12, 2010
another poem
every day is a new beginning.
Is to trust that miracles happen,
and dreams really do come true.
To believe is to see angels
dancing among the clouds,
To know the wonder of a stardust sky
and the wisdom of the man in the moon.
To believe is to know the value of a nurturing heart,
The innocence of a child's eyes
and the beauty of an aging hand,
for it is through their teachings we learn to love.
To believe is to find the strength
and courage that lies within us
When it's time to pick up
the pieces and begin again.
To believe is to know
we are not alone,
That life is a gift
and this is our time to cherish it.
To believe is to know
that wonderful surprises are just
waiting to happen,
And all our hopes and dreams are within reach.
If only we believe.
you're not going to hold me back.
Here's an example: Some stranger is calling me stupid for still listening to John Mayer. Why should I stop liking him for something that's tearing apart his world right now? I have had dreams of marrying John Mayer and moving to Antartica for a very long time now and I'm not just going to stop dreaming because people don't approve. pfftt.....This is my life and I'm going to live it according to my heart not according to the media or what the "popular" people say. Take a stand with me. Be true to you because you're BEAUTIFUL. you're wonderful and amazing also. Don't let anyone hold you back from reaching your highest potential. Don't let them hold you back from being the amazing, beautiful, and wonderful person that you are. Losing yourself to satisfy someone else is not fair. It's not worth it. Be true to you!
February 11, 2010
smiles, smiles, smiles :)
I passed around the corner,
I thought about that smile,
So, if you feel a smile begin,
February 9, 2010
just a reminder....
Let someone know how beautiful they are. There's a giant facebook event going on called "Tell her She's beautiful." It's from the 11th to the 14th of February. It's a chance to let everyone know how beautiful they are on this weekend filled with love. Of course you can let people know how beautiful they are every single day but this is an amazing facebook event and I really wanted to share. I'll be baking cookies and making little cards that say "you're beautiful" and other little uplifting messages. It's important that people see how beautiful they are. I can see it, I hope you see it too.
February 7, 2010
football :)
February 6, 2010
bittersweet moment #1
If a guy doesn't like me for who I am then he's not worth it. I shouldn't hate him for it and I really shouldn't waste my time on him. I can't change who I am for someone and I shouldn't have to. Who I am is impossible to change. Someday though, I know I'll find someone who loves me for who I am. We all will. I also know that he'll be worth the wait. I don't think anyone should be worth the trouble of changing your whole personality. It just should not be like that. I'm going to be true to myself and live the life I want to live. The life that feels right in my heart. I'm living my life for me and not to fit anyone else's idea of what my life should be. If someone doesn't like it, it's not a big deal. I can't make anyone like me so I'm not going to try anymore. Someday my prince will come and he'll be worth the wait. A girl can dream :) Hopefully fairytales really do come true.
"Some day my prince will come
Some day we'll meet again
And away to his castle we'll go
To be happy forever I know
Some day when spring is here
We'll find our love anew
And the birds will sing
And wedding bells will ring
Some day when my dreams come true"