Friends!

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. 

--Henri Nouwen

Listen Closely....

"Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely." -The Land Before Time

Hopeful!

"here we are. all of us, basically alone, separate creatures just circling each other. all searching for that slightest hint of a real connection. some look in the wrong places, some, they just give up. ... but all of us, we keep trying over & over again. why? because every once in a while, every once in a while two people meet & there’s that spark." -bones

Love.

"but there's another kind of love. one that gives you the courage to be better than you are, not less than you are. one that makes you feel that anything is possible. i want you to know that you could have that. i want you to hold out for it." -nights in rodanthe

A Medley of Being You...

When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile,
The whole world stops and stares for awhile
Cause girl you're amazing
Just the way you are

-Bruno Mars

Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel
Like you're less than perfect
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel
Like you're nothing, you're perfect to me

-Pink

You just gotta ignite, the light, and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July
'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh"

As you shoot across the sky-y-y

-Katy Perry 

After A Long Hiatus...

“Life's most persistent & urgent question is: what are you doing for others?”

-Martin Luther King Jr-

Love

Love; it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free...