Friday, December 21, 2012

Desert Spirit


Desert Spirit
Amelia Pullman

You will learn to love in the Kingdom of Death.
You will sing in its Gardens of Silence.
What tomorrow brings will never be known.
What weapon you choose in your Army alone,
Will be the Sun and the Moon combined into one.
What horses will fly with Bumblebees of blue.
What stars will burn out when you close your eyes.
If this Desert Spirit finds you, and it always does,
Submit to its rage, and Honor your soul.

The Apocalypse Is Here


Love, Majora's Mask 


Sunday, December 11, 2011

You're Staring.


I was in Hollister yesterday, just bumming around when I couldn't get over the feeling that someone had been watching me since I got there. Then our eyes met, and I was like 'where have you been all my life?' The second thing I thought was 'Why am I wearing this ugly sweater?' and the third thing 'stop staring at me in my ugly sweater.'

But he wouldn't.

So, I came home and I found a picture of him.



Yup. This is him.

Yes. I know he was staring at you too.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Dance In A Nutshell

In Dance Company we had to write a short paper on our own philosophy of dance. To be perfectly honest with you, I wrote this in probably less than 20 minutes. Tada. Anyways. I didn't really think much about it, it all came pretty easy, because this is just how I feel about dance. But my dance teacher actually read my paper out loud to all of the other girls. ... awkward. Not really, but she said before she read it that she had to read the first paragraph three times before she understood it. Maybe that's because its a jumbled mess, or it could just be her. But hey, if she liked it enough to make her all teary-eyed, I thought I might as well put it up. So, to the world; here is how I view dance in a nutshell.

Philosophy of Dance
Philosophy is the study of the foundational features of knowledge, reality, and existence. We gain knowledge through facts, information and skills that we acquire from experience and learning. We use reality by dancing in the real world, and worlds beyond this one. And through our way of life, we use dance to exist.

Dance is an extraordinary thing because of it’s many uses. We use dance as an art form, a way to express ourselves, a way to re-tell a story, a physical exercise, to learn and grow, to touch others lives, and to touch our own lives.
Dance is the bridge between spiritual and physical. Dance takes energy, strength, and self-control, which must meet with emotion and soul. Because it takes so much effort to achieve this, only through practice and growth will this happen.
When words cannot be expressed, there comes dance in its stead. Dance is a way to express certain feelings and emotions that can better be said through the words of a body and movement than could ever be said in words. If you want to share your feelings in their fullest, you must let yourself go in dance. You are giving your entire self. Making you vulnerable to whoever may be watching. You must be brave. Many will not understand what you have to say, however even if there isn’t one who does, in your heart, you will have felt accomplishment that cannot be gained from anything other than dance in this world.

Fly me to the moon

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a-Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, in other words
I love ... you

-Frank Sinatra
I was out with my mom and my brother one day, driving around, as far as I remember having a grand old time, when my brother said, "Yep, I am going to be an astronaut when I grow up." I smiled and told him it was a brilliant plan not including the fact that NASA had just set up their last ship, and the program was basically over with. Why crush that right now, right? Soon after he said this, he asked me what month came after October. Oh my little brother. So, I asked him if he knew the song. You know, the song we all learned. The song which some of us still use to figure out which month follows October? Several times of singing it with him, I said he should sing it alone. And he went like this; January, February, March and April, May, June, July and August, September..... November? Nope Max, remember the whole, what comes after October question?
This conversation didn't phase me until a few days later. How could I expect Max to be able to become an astronaut in a dying program. But how could I expect him to be able to do this without knowing when November came? It won't happen. Thats how. But he still believes he can. So why shouldn't I? Dreams are what makes us who we are. Without them I don't think we would know what to do with ourselves. So to my little brother who wants to be an astronaut. If you ever are unsure of when November is, I will always be here to tell you. Because if we all know when that is, I believe we can do anything.


Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Expressions of Love

Once upon a time I took a stupid online quiz. Just something that came up when I was stumbling. It was kinda about life and all of that. We have all taken one. Like a Phycology quiz or whatever. So, one of the questions says something like; you come upon a bush of red and white roses and you pick 20. How many roses of each color do you pick? I said 19 red and 1 white. You know, for dramatic effect or whatever. So at the end of the quiz while it was explaining the answers to me, and it said that the roses symbolized love. The red roses are how much love you expect to receive and the white how much you expect to give. So the dumb quiz was telling me that I expect 95% of love and am only willing to give 5%. I blew it off. These quizzes always lie. Right? But wouldn't it be sad if it was true? I mean, that was months ago, and for some reason I am still thinking about it.

My dad recently sent me this amazing video. Usually I just roll my eyes at these because thats just what I do. I close off to these. But this one kinda caught me and I ended up loving it. Crying actually. Shhhh thats a secret. But watch it and just love it. because it was really sweet and it kinda has to do with all this silly love stuff. Not that I am or have been in love or anything. just directed at the people I love. My family in friends. I want to give more than 1 white rose.