Life is what happens when you...exam yourself.

Song(s) of the day- Mumford and Sons- White Blank pages.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYQ_lse44gQ
Chris Brown- Duces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tIr0rMZLcs
Two amazing songs on opposing sides of the lyrical and genre spectrum, talking about the exact same thing.(non-reciprocated love and or desire)

Banter...
I find it amazing what happens when you open up and enjoy your mind for just a bit.
When you start taking the advice you would give.
The realization that half of what you already know... is all you'll ever need to know.
Wisdom comes with just knowing how important knowledge is...the rest just comes from being in the right places...on purpose.
There is no such thing "as what if"...so why do we as humans insist that this route of thought is acceptable or even feasible to anything we will encounter in our future.
If you know something is bad for you...why would you want it?
What would make human desire so strong that it trumps overall wellness?
I refrain from coming off too preachy but I insist its the Devil in raw form.
Sex is special, when you wait it is even more special...when you love someone it is even more special but when you decided you have fallen in love with someone because of sex (or a sexual encounter) it is traumatic.
I've never been the one to put the horse before the carriage but everyone makes mistakes and the pain we feel from those mistakes are what induce self awareness and the path to what we yearn to become.
Everyday should be a self-less encounter with your purpose in life.
If you have not found your purpose, your days will become warped with the emptiness you have found in being able to fully satisfy yourself.
"Selflessness comes from thinking of our SELF- LESS. "
How can we think about our self...less if the only outlets of expression are coated in our FACEbooks and in the MYspace of our Iphones?

I believe a lack of culture is unacceptable... if it is from a pure aversion to overall awareness.
But Empathy is even more unacceptable.
Patience is a true VIRTUE. & this.... is banter.
That's my piece.
Keep it drama free.

This is not Tennessee... that's fine with me.

Life is what happens when... your making plans.
Its an age old saying that carries more meaning when we default on its importance.
I had "plans" to be ten hours south of Lake Erie in Gatlinburg, TN this weekend.... but life happened and I find myself surrounded by new friends and old friends, who slowly become even better friends... in one of my favorite places in the world.
Lake Erie (Sandusky Ohio to be more specific ) is one of the most nostalgic places on earth. ( I use the word nostalgic or variations of the word often because, well ahem- its awesome) Lake Erie reminds me of a time where "things were simple."
With patriotism swinging and looting this era of its character and identity.... it simply recalls the good old days that I can only imagine, yet never fully understand.


As I walked out on the dock this afternoon I encountered an older lady sprawled across her beach chair catching the first slice of sunlight all day.
As I became aware of her, I noticed her reading a memoir titled The Help.
As I inquired about the context of her readings, I saw her response weak and bashful.
Engulfed in stories about what it was like to be "the help" in the south (which as a rich white woman.... she never would or could have been)
I found it interesting that she came off nearly ashamed for her interest in such a book.
None the less, her eyes struck me as honest and ungrudging, so instead of leaving her bonded, I found ground in a more comfortable light; delving into her about grand children and her years spent next to the water and that same dock we exchanged our self to one another on.



The lesson(s) I learned today
-----Today I find that some people can make life so much better and that it truly depends on the air, in which you hold their opinion, to how they make you feel upon bestowing their advice upon you.

---If we simply travel for fun, then we only walk forward with our mouths open and our eyes closed

---tracks must run parallel long enough before they can decided that they must run together.

-----I also learned that we as humans go through so many emotions in 24 hours and that if I am ever blessed enough to have children, I will ask them every night to share highs and lows ( bush and thorn, pows and wows or what ever you may know it by) Its' a tactic I have been taught while working at summer camps that allow people to share feelings they may not have even known were saturated in them through out their day.