January 2010
35 posts
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
– Laozi (via kari-shma)
My travel mentality!
On Edge Today
Seriously. I’ve been dealing with some pretty nasty problems. Not one’s easily fixed either. I’ve had to change my diet and lifestyle as a result. Still, the problems persist. I’ve watched the people I love slip further and further down hill. They’ve managed to pull themselves back up slightly, but it’s still a struggle. In the beginning, it was just one member...
Long Day
Wake up in the morning
Jump up, ready to get dressed
Rush to do my makeup
Not a moment to eat
Toast some bread(my last meal for 4 hours)
Drive a ways
See my sisters’ performance
Walk away happy, proud, and a little sad
Drive again
Eat for a long time
Drive again
Meet my mom
Drive
Store
Drive
Store
Drive
Home
Rest….
I understood today, the meaning of the phrase,...
No person in this word is entitled to do anything other than his or her own will. We feel we have obligations and responsibilities, and if you are a person who cares; we do. But, it isn’t a necessity to care. It’s an added bonus to a person able to receive your kindness. The logic may seem off to most people, and trust me when I say that it’s taken years for me to comprehend, but...
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
– Flannery O’Connor (via kari-shma)
I agree. And things that happened a year ago, you cannot turn around this year, and say that they never happened just because your perspective has changed.
“There’s good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much...”
– Kurt Cobain (via thingsgohazy) (via loveyourchaos)
“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t...”
– James Earl Jones (via kari-shma)
I feel weird today. Like I have a surge of adrenaline flowing through me..constantly. I don’t know what from. I’m a sensitive person, and I usually don’t know the cause of such things as everything is amplified to me. Today feels almost like a dream, and I’m wondering when I’ll wake up. Anyway, I think perhaps I’ll go for a run or something..anything to draw me...
Haiti
I’m very sensitive to occurrences in the world, especially disasters. If I had the resources to help, I would. I wouldn’t normally promote something that I myself cannot do, but I will say that for anyone who has means for helping, send what little you can. The devastation is terrible, and I can’t even imagine what it must be like for those people. My thoughts are with the people...
“I dwell in possibility…”
– Emily Dickinson (via kari-shma)
New Horizons
I always thought of myself as drift-wood. Willed to go where ever the currents took me. It wasn’t a bad thing, but now I have my own ideas; a grasp on something I want. In the past I would have taken whatever came to me. Of course nothing I didn’t want, but I didn’t know for sure anything I did want. I have a clearer imagine now. I’m entirely relieved for that, too. I like...
Caught in an arctic cold spell
….And loving it (:
I may be perhaps the only one in my area who’s enjoying this.
“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the...”
– Alexandre Dumas (via kari-shma)
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize...”
– Lao Tzu (via kari-shma)
I’ll try to remember that..
Silent whispers of pain
I suffer more than I let on. Much more than my heart can bear. I suppose there just isn’t enough room in my heart for the pain to be on the fore-front. Generally, I am happy. These past few weeks have been spectacular. Far more than I could have hoped for. It’s ending differently than I thought, though. I should be leaving in just a few days, but I’m not. “Soon,”...
A little sadness with the new year...
Of all the let-downs I’ve experienced, this has to be one of the worst. I’m seeing an exact repeat of last year; same time, but different place, and different person leaving, but still the same separation. I didn’t think it would be like this. I thought that this was going to end happily..for the moment anyway. I’m feeling major disappointment..many reasons why. I’m...
“Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it...”
– Hannah Arendt (via kari-shma)
I keep my promises, usually..but I’m starting to get a little annoyed with those who keep trying to make promises to me (and vice-versa) that neither of us know we can really keep.