June 2011
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Lifetime Beautiful Moment
Last summer I was working at with special needs adults, teens, and children at a camp. At one point, one of my autistic teenage campers broke down a ran away. When we found him and brought him back, he was still pretty shaken up and to calm him down, my co-director played him Jay-Z’s song Young Forever. They sang the words together, night was falling, everything was peaceful and I was...
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thatkindofwoman)
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On feelings:
So instead of showing them, get good at articulating. Being able to spell out your feelings, to break them down and analyze them, to feel your way around the nuances of an emotion, that makes you mature and self-aware. You know what you’re feeling and you feel better for it. Until eventually you’re so good at getting your feelings, at having all the right words, at predicting...
Sometimes I think I may be the only teenage girl on Tumblr who doesn’t want stick skinny thighs!
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“so often, you hear people talking about how they are learning to accept...”
– http://recoverandfly.tumblr.com/ (via stophatingyourbody)
I will someday be exactly this powerful!!
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman- (via hattitude)
Stress attack. Expensive holes in the wall, paper to finish, packing.
Breathe. Breathe.
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I Found a Reason - Cat Power
Incredibly gorgeous!
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Ways to Act
1. Be polite. Respect the people around you, their feelings and thoughts and needs. Understand that you are not the only sentient human being on this world and act accordingly.
2. Be confident. You deserve respect just as much as others do. Ask for what you need and if someone won’t give it to you, find someone else who will. Eat what you want, wear what you want, act how you want and...
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Updated Goals
Get an A on my final Econ test (hopefully)
Perform well at my piano jury
Get an A in French! (turned in the last essay yesterday!)
Make my mom happy for Mother’s Day
Lose some weight when I am home for a month
Cultivate a cheap summer wardrobe
Go to Washington DC this summer
Really hang out with good friends the first month
Make meaningful connections with people at the new camp!
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“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young...”
– Stephen Colbert (via thatkindofwoman)
“Remember, Jesus would rather shame gays than let orphans have a family.”
– Stephen Colbert (via professorhojo)
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Osama Bin Laden →
Very thought provoking.
“Somewhere, according to one of his five wives, was a man who loved sunflowers, and eating yogurt with honey; who took his children to the beach, and let them sleep under the stars; who enjoyed the BBC World Service and would go hunting with friends each Friday, sometimes mounted, like the Prophet, on a white horse. He liked the comparison. Yet the best thing in his...
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