February 2012
3 posts
January 2012
2 posts
what it feels like to finally find love. on 8tracks.
October 2011
1 post
April 2009
4 posts
This makes me happy
Here are a few songs Ive been listening to alot lately that make me feel good. I wanted to share them with you. I hope they make you happy too.
March 2009
6 posts
Ginger.
As many of you have probably noticed, I haven’t written a new post in a while. I had thought about it, thought about what I could write, how I could say it. But it wouldn’t have been real, I wouldn’t have felt it. I was stuck for a little while, Ive been stuck.
Its funny, the things we feel. Looking in on other peoples lives we sometimes see the things they take so seriously as...
The lady, the little boy, and his father.
The trains in Boston get crowded around 5pm every weekday. Yesterday on my way home, I found myself jammed between what seemed to be thousands of angry people in one small train. I’ve always wondered what makes people so angry about being around others, why everybody in crowds always seem to be unhappy. I’m ridiculous, and in my head I always picture that there is one man that starts...
Circles
In 7th grade, a boy came into the cafeteria during lunch and announced that that the World Trade Center was no longer standing. From that day, for a long time, I hated the people of Afghanistan. I did not know anybody from that country, I did not know what they looked like or how they talked, and I did not know how they felt about me. Yet, without hesitation, I hated them.
I look back on that as...
February 2009
11 posts
six thirty eight a.m.
There are a lot of people in the world today that do not believe in miracles. People think that the only ones who see things as miracles are those who are religious or believe in God. To believe in something, whether it be a religion or even just the idea that there is something greater than us, is in fact an amazing quality, but the truth is you don’t necessarily need that to believe in...
When I awake.
Everybody, once in a while, wakes up in one of those moods. Your eyes open, and you just lie there. Even if everything is going right in life, and you seem to have everything you could ever want, you still wake up with sadness. I think we can all relate. I think everybody has those mornings.
I had one of those mornings today.
It was like my eyes opened, and there I was. Just, there. It put me in...
What we leave behind.
I have this little notebook that I keep with me at all times. It rests in the back left pocket of my jeans, and every time I see something, every time I feel something, I open to a new page and write a thought. For my last post, I found the page about heroes and survivors. I sat down to write, and without an idea of where to go with it yet, Abraham Lincoln came to mind, and I began to write of...
“If I could tell the world just one thing,
It would be we’re all ok”
– Hands, Jewel
the choices we make
Every once in a while, among all the stories of death, hate, jealousy and corruption, we see a rare story of hope on the news.
SAVED.
Somebody uses their wealth for something positive, risks their life for another, a hero is born. I am very proud when these stories come on the news, or even in the news paper, for I know that it reminds people that there is still some good left in the world....
“With each gift that you share
You may heal and repair
With each choice you...”
– Messages, Xavier Rudd
WatchEverybody, no matter their age, falls in love.
Someday Ill find my orange sky. I hope you find yours too.
a good life.
There has always been this idea that a “good” life means that everything has to be perfect. That, the people who live these kinds of lives must be happy all the time, must never feel sadness, must never get stuck in hard situations.
I don’t believe anybody lives a life like that. And I also believe, that if somebody does live like that, its not as good of a life as it seems. If...
That old man.
A little while back, back in October, I had left my apartment around 12:30 in the afternoon, heading down to the school to return some equipment. It was a day filled with dark skys, cold weather, and most of all, lonliness. With all of the happy things I write on this blog, all of the things I post, I want to make it clear that I do notice all of the sadness in the world as well. I do feel it too,...
“So why, oh why
Do I look to the other side
‘Cause I know the grass is...”
– The John Butler Trio
Life, Liberty and...Happiness.
It was written into history by the founding fathers of America. We are all entitled to it, I am entitled to it, yet I don’t know if I understand it.
The Pursuit of Happiness.
I understand that there are things we must all pursue in life, that in order to become better people we must set goals for ourselves and achieve them, and I agree with all of that. However, the idea of pursuing happiness, or...
January 2009
7 posts
“So please don’t say that you don’t know how, ‘cause if you can...”
– The Push Stars
In the end.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the idea of money. What it means, why it means what it means, and why it is in our lives. Going to an art school and having a wonderful, hardworking family that supports me, I get the lucky and rare opportunity of being taught how to make art work that makes me happy, rather than just having to worry about making money. However, I realize that this is a...
WatchIf you take just a simple minute to let the world actually happen infront of your eyes, rather than just you happening infront of it, you can finally see the beauty of the world that we are a part of.
“There is hope in those around us.”
Opening...
I have had this account for a while now. I made it a while back, expecting to write a blog every single day to let everyone know what was going on in my life and in my world. But I stalled, I waited, wondering where to start. I thought to myself, how can I write something and call it the “beginning” when my life is far from the start? How do you begin something in the middle, how do...