COME ON

This little heart of mine

There are so many moments when I am overcome with how GOOD life can be. Just sitting in class laughing at a joke a professor slides in is enough to make my heart want to burst sometimes. All at once I get so anxious and content all at the same time. I am so ridiculously happy in that moment but at the same time I want to drink everything in that is on it's way all at once: Christmas, lunch with a friend, a day off, inspiring lectures, a good movie, finding a new music obsession, a mission, my wedding day, growing old and sitting on a porch somewhere, the next meaningful kiss, being a teacher, traveling, getting a pet, babysitting, quiet moments while the snow falls, basking in the sun when summer comes back. I just feel like there is so much to offer along every step of the road. I want it all, but at the same time I want every second to slow down to let me enjoy it while it's here.

I've never longed to go back to any moment in the past. I truly haven't. I guess I've never seen the sense in back-tracking when what's ahead promises to be so beautiful. Even when everything seemed dark, I never wanted to go back because it meant the dark times would only be ahead of me again. Once the dark times are over, they're really over and it's on to the next beautiful moment.

Do yourself a favor for me: Go listen to Carla Bruni. Drink a super huge glass of chocolate milk. Look at some pictures from elementary school. Hold hands with someone. Wear red lipstick or spike your hair up as weird as possible and then set up Skype and talk to someone you haven't seen in awhile.
Let me know how it goes.

Teaching is so much more than just talking about stuff, and history is so much more than the study of dead guys.

One day I'll prove it.

EHY

I'm a fan of this article.
The comments at the bottom are somewhat comical as well. 


One person said, "…. they are so intelligent and bright yet all think we Americans should go to this “great” form of socialist communist system? How can these great thinkers fail to see that it’s always failed, everytime it’s tried, communism socialism has never worked. Why? Why do they fail to see that?"
My question is....define "fail". It's interesting to me that everyone is convinced that our system of government is a success, when truly there's no such thing. Governments have to continually change and adapt in order to CONTINUE succeeding, and even then no system has ever sustained itself indefinitely. Just because our fall hasn't come yet doesn't mean it won't happen. Sorry loves, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. And that doesn't mean that the world will end! One system disintegrates and another is formed. It's happened over and over again through history. 


Or were you sleeping through that class in high school?

You're welcome.

Let me come home

I love this place.

Tu ne sais pas ce que l'on dit de toi. Tu t'en fous surtout.

After years of being stolen and broken on a consistent basis, sometimes a heart forgets how to stay together. Kind of like people who can’t stay in a place for too long, or people who can’t leave one. We’re all so scared that things might change because even if we have trouble handling what we’re going through, at least we’re handling it.