Somehow it is always difficult to summon the words to adequately describe a trip, an experience, a life-changing event. Perhaps that's why I take photographs, to capture the moments, the colors, the vibrant life of a place and time. Yet because this was a class trip, an English class trip, I have a journal chock…
I’m free, I’m unchained
Forgiveness isn’t a comfortable place. It’s really hard to tell someone that things “will be okay”. It’s like saying, “hey, you’ll feel better eventually, get over it”. It’s so much easier to sympathize, to agree that the other person was in the wrong, to dig the hole deeper and deeper around ourselves. What is forgiveness,…
Something Pretty
I was skyping my best friend last night - she had called while I was reading an English assignment at some insane evening hour and we proceeded to spend the next hour and a half laughing and acting like we weren't actually grown ups. You can do that with your best friend, you know. She…
Merry Christmas!
Part of me cannot believe that it's already Christmas. It seemed that only a few months ago it was summer, and school was just beginning. Yet here it is, December 24th. Christmas Eve. Time seems to go so fast and so slow at the same time, never stopping, just going on and on. This Christmas,…
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