A reminder

Sometimes I need a reminder that being a friend means loving someone for everything they are.
The good.
The bad.
The Ugly.

I need to remember to be more compassionate, forgiving, and loving.
Not close off my heart and build a wall when I feel like someone's intentions are not what I think they should be...


"Friendship isn't about whom you've known the longest, its about who came and never left your side..."

"Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul"

I stumbled across this Sundance Film while on another blog
I find it to be really really interesting and inspiring...

There are a lot of non-profits out there that I think are amazing organizations
This one is definitely one that I would love to learn more about here
Wouldn't it be amazing to be apart of something like this...

It just makes me feel so blessed to live where I do.
It gives me an amazing outlook and perspective on my "problems"

Just opens the eyes to how other people live, and the simple things that can make life altering differences

Promise yourself

" promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
think only of the best, work only for the best, and except only the best.
forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the great achievements of the future.
give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!"
-christian d. larson


*www.quotablecards.com*

I have a dream...

"And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' "

- Martin Luther King Jr.


"There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Moment of Weakness

If you know me, you will agree...

*cory nastazio- professional bmx rider

This is my kryptonite

Sorry for the moment of weakness, but I needed a way to say Thank you Jesus. 

The scruff

The tattoos

The jawline

Thank you God for making all the beautiful creatures

Where I sit you're one of a kind...

Griffin House- The Guy That Says Goodbye To You is Out of His Mind.

Everyone deserves someone to feel this way about them

Enjoy!

Love Song

 

What does your Love Song sound like? 

As you know,
I am a love junkie.
a love lover.
a lovey mcloverson.
eye mull of mush sheen. *Think Mad Gab*
if its about love. i love it. i want it. i have felt it.

during this last season of love
with family, friends, and a failed relationship... 
this journey
some, most, none of you have been on with me
its been unpredictably impatiently hopeful, even optimistic at times..
and painfully dreadfully bleak, hauntingly devastating at times.

I have...
searched my soul
read books
analyzed.every.possible.angle.of. every.situation. 
shopped for advice
went back to search my heart
made excuses
distracted myself
shopped for shoes 
and flung myself knee deep in hard.honesty. cold. truth. 

but one of the things that has gotten me through the thick of it all was
music. 
I was listening to a few different playlists I have.
which the songs range from-
hopeful
never moving on

angry and hurt

found something better
slowly getting there
to found it again

then I realized... love is a really powerful thing.
I mean I knew this before
I love love because of how powerful it is
But all the greats of our time know it too.

Frank Sinatra
Garth Brooks
H.O.V.A. ... Just to name a few *its late, and I don't feel like thinking about more*

So many songs, if not almost all songs, have some tie to love.
I realized, well if there are so many
waiting for the big love songs
break up songs
wanna be in love songs
big pimpin songs
happy love songs
lookin' for a good time songs

Then I am not the only person out there that needs to hear them
or that feels the same way they are feeling.
Sometimes its hard to feel like you aren't the only one going through something
but then you turn on some music, and say "They wrote this song for me"


They did...