Wise Words & Good Laughs

Be Here Now by Ray Lamontagne

Don't let your mind get weary and confused
Your will be still, don't try
Don't let your heart get heavy child
Inside you there's a strength that lies

Don't let your soul get lonely child
It's only time, it will go by
Don't look for love in faces, places
It's in you, that's where you'll find kindness

Be here now, here now
Be here now, here now

Don't lose your faith in me
And I will try not to lose faith in you
Don't put your trust in walls
'Cause walls will only crush you when they fall
Be here now, here now
Be here now, here now

Hair Envy

It's been years since I had a super-short-pixie-esque haircut... And a sudden change in my mood has me missing it. Indeed, missing IT. I absolutely loved that lightweight feeling around my neck, the little time and care needed to style it, and most of all... All those dainty looks I got from people around me like, "wow, she looks super cute!!" or the look in people's eyes that always said, "damn, she must be fearless if she can handle having her hair THAT short". There is definitely some positive attention associated with having that kind of hair.

I mean, I don't see why not? I graduated college last month - Hurray! I am now in the process of finding work and slowly but surely moving into that stage of official adulthood. I never really felt that way in my teens. I was quite irresponsible, obnoxious, and unmotivated then. It's not like that anymore. I've developed so much more momentum and thirst since reaching my twenties. I am just overjoyed with this freedom! Freedom and hair are somewhat interrelated in the looks department, no? We're always entitled to break some rules I think ;)

(Left:  Nora Zehetner, Top Right: Vanessa Hudgens, Bottom Right: Michelle Williams)

My ultimate goal is to leave this word a better person, 

and for me not to be the only one who knows it.

~Gavin Degraw

Pain insists upon being attended to. 

God whispers to us in our pleasures, 

speaks in our consciences, 

but shouts in our pains.

 It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

~ C.S. Lewis

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. 

Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, 

ambition inspired, 

and success achieved.

~ Helen Keller

I love to work... 

If you work hard you get good, 

and good turns into great,

and hopefully I'm the definition of that.

~ Lil Wayne