"the hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread" - Mother Teresa
"One you choose hope, anything's possible" -Chris Reeves
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hoep that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come" -Anne Lamott
"I have sometimes been widly, depairingly, acutely miserable, but ( Read more... )

So my family is really into American Idol. I'm not. Its an hour of mediocrity, and weird people. Kind of lame. But when everyone else in your house is into something you have no choice but to know whats going on right? So basically this season is the same as every other season...mediocre performances, and random personalities. But the little kid on ( Read more... )

this would be the first year in my memory that i haven't been to Ash Wednesday mass.  Its not a holy day of obligation but still, its weird. 

 Abortion.  I'm becoming increasingly liberal on the subject.  I definitely think its the wrong choice, babies are babies and are meant to be born.  I mourn for the loss of the babies to abortion, and I don't like the current laws for it.  But I have a really hard time with people forcing their beliefs on other people.  And I feel like, sometimes, ( Read more... )

 NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY: No person shall be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination in any educational program or activity available in any school on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, creed, political belief, age, national origin, linguistic and language differences, sexual orientation ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking about chivalry ever since my brother decided to be a jerk and get mad at me for my opinions on the matter.  But thats just the thing, there is no reason to get mad.  I think the problem is people who are all about chivalry aren't really hearing what i'm saying about it.  Because my feelings towards chivalry are based on ( Read more... )

You're a part time lover and a full time friend ( Read more... )

DUDE!!!!! i LOVE when awesome things happen, especially on bad days, especially REALLLY awesome things.  But then i guess on the flip side, I hate that there is no stop time button, and i hate that grown ups have to make decsions.

First things first.  Today, when I was working....actually when i was getting off work... rachel showed up.  She wasn' ( Read more... )

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This is not at all how
We thought it was supposed to be
We had so many plans for you
We had so many dreams
And now you've gone away
And left us with the memories of your smile
And nothing we can say
And nothing we can do
Can take away the pain
The pain of losing you, but ...

We can cry with hope
We can say goodbye with hope
'Cause we know our goodbye is not ( Read more... )