Artists statement.

Im part of a girls writing workshop, and we were challenged to come up with a topic that was extremely important to us, and find a way to use our words to get our point across. Well I went through lists of controversial topics in my mind, things I was for, things I was against, then I suddenly realized what I thought was the biggest problem of all, happiness. Lately we’ve all been so wrapped up in war and abortion this and abortion that, so much so that we’ve forgotten to just look around and appreciate everything we have. We as a nation are so accoustomed to only noticing the negative things in our lives, and soon we’re so blinded by all that negative energy its really hard to find the positive. So what I’ve done is picked things that were insightful, or just funny that I’ve said and others around me have said and I put them on leaves. My goal is to make one person smile. My goal is change one persons day, and hopefully get them to turn a new leaf in their lives.

Quotes

everything you do will affect more people than you realize

your worth it

Though I do think feminism is a rad thing, I however have to draw the line with Barbie dolls.

A life without imperfections, no mistakes, getting everything right?

Man that would suck.

Don’t fret about today, its already tomorrow in australlia.

Kudos to Mattel for not being idiots and covering ken up.

Location: My lips
Cause: Hormones
Diagnosis: First kiss
Treatment: Convincing myself it happened by doing it again (wasn’t as good)
Follow-up: I still get dizzy thinking about it.

She softly sighed breathing in the crisp winter air burning in her lungs

Perhaps I've been setting the bar much to high for myself, for impressing the whole world would be quite the feat.

We all tend to act like we have one thousand years to spend on this planet, but that's not the case is it? Lets be thankful for now, and everything we have

just remember,
your alive,
your living,
breathing,
thinking,
Don’t forget how amazing that is.

Everyone has the power to change their own lives

if i could choose i would already have unlocked the secrets of the universe.

Im on a quest to have zero friction in my life and some day i will be a vagabond traveling the world with nothing but my walking stick.

Whats there left to do in life when your problems are gone?
kick back. Ride a bike. fly a kite. Look for sasquatch. Dig a hole to china. climb trees. look for rhythm everywhere. wander lots. look at the sky and ponder thoughts.
or go deck some random man on the street

Hahaha i rule u!

Humanity-everyone is the same to a degree--our connection to each other.

When did society start judging people based off things other than a person’s character? For many years the color of someone’s skin or a persons gender determined a persons place in society. Unconsciously or consciously we were putting those persons down based upon something we saw on the outside instead of solely what is within. Perhaps it is part of our nature to just automatically judge someone or something by the way they [it] look, smells, feels like, or maybe we never made the decision at all. Maybe the reason we act this way is because it is so easy to judge someone else before really getting to know them for who they are and what they stand for. We as a race are consistently looking for simpler ways to do things, and without knowing it this laziness to not take the time to look beyond what we see will be our downfall. Even today people are still judged by their appearance, be it age or sexual orientation, dress or maybe beliefs everyone gets judged everyday and everyone does the judging. Even for a millisecond something will cross our mind that makes an assumption about the people we meet, and this assumption will constantly override anything you might think about them once they walk away. Why is this so? I can confidently say that if someone took the time to truly look at that first judgment they made about someone, they were almost always wrong. Training ourselves to look past this outward appearance will strengthen us as individuals as well as our spirits. As cheesy as it sounds, putting aside all the judgments and assumptions you make about anyone you’d see that most everyone is a decent human, and as a race finding similarities as opposed to differences will surely benefit us in the future especially with this tension between religions and political beliefs throughout the world.

Every human is a human and everything we do will affect more people than we realize, and in this we are all intertwined. On the inside with our same beating hearts and lungs, kidneys, bladder, we are all the same. All I think is that people should start acting like it.