beating the odds

this man is so inspiring.

[update]

at this very moment...

I'm currently watching The Bachelorette on my laptop, while organizing my trunk of art supplies, wearing my feather dress, my key earrings and my cowboy boots, waiting for my leftover pizza to heat up.

I'm currently the epitome of ME.

EDIT-

later on, I ate some Chinese food. I got even more ME in that moment.

thanks craigslist!

and its mine all mine mine mine :) :) :)
feeling guilty because I spent a little of my Germany money...
but I'll only live ONCE, right?

wear sunscreen

my, how we've grown.

one of those summers.

I hope its going to be one of those summers.

I hope I laugh till my stomach hurts, drink margaritas, paint a lot, take too many pictures, get a sunburn, jump off a few cliffs, spend time on a boat, make new friends and visit some old ones.

I hope I finally find a job and sell some stuff so I can get my finances moving.

I hope I have more nights like these, when I crawl into bed at 6am because I've been out all night having meaningful talks about gay rights and adopting children and world injustice and maybe a few alien/ghost/plane crash stories mixed in.

I hope The Music History Institute in Germany is everything I'm hoping for & more and I hope I learn a lot and see a lot and make new friends and get to know my musical heroes.

I hope I never take for granted that this is the first summer in years that my heart isn't broken. That in itself is a freedom I haven't tasted in awhile.

In short, I'm pretty sure this summer will beat last summer's ass.

this is my best friend bryan

he's the soloist on "Put a Little Love" with the Voices of Mobile



and oh man, I couldn't be prouder:)

i'm serious.

STOP. TALKING.
TO. ME.
LIKE. THAT.

I've been sent to spread the message

God Bless Texas.

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"Come to think of it, I don't really believe there is only one person in the whole world for me... But I do know there is someone somewhere who will make me feel like there is.

so I'll wait for that."

I'm worried.

The Nashville flood has made this last week seem like an alternate reality.

I've been studying for finals in my muddy clothes, going to bed, getting up without showering for water conservation, taking tests, singing in Italian/German/French, eating lunch in my cozy cafeteria, then headed back out into the devastated city to get dirty again. I've been helping friends pack their only dry belongings, strangers rip up their ruined carpet and brand new hardwood, petting cows wandering the streets because their pasture was flooded, laying out 1940s family photos in the grass, hoping they aren't completely ruined, then driving my unflooded 4runner back to my unflooded apartment to eat Chipotle for dinner and read up for my psychology exam.

I couldn't help yesterday because normal life at school was carrying on, and I had to get my junior year over with. I felt this strange guilt all day. My day was completely normal... when the families 1/2 of a mile away from me were out of house and home.


I'm worried we're being forgotten... Nashville is a disaster and half of America doesn't know.

I'm worried we're going to forget... what about 3 weeks from now when most of the damage has been assessed... will I forget about the sadness Mrs. Barb from Bellevue is still experiencing? She nearly cried the whole time we were there. Or Mrs. Pat, who lost her sweet dog to rushing water? Or the homeless who already had basically nothing, who had to leave their only belongings behind them to evacuate tent city? Or the elderly couple in east Nashville who drowned in their home Sunday night, because the husband was in a wheelchair & the wife refused to leave him behind?

I've been so proud of Nashville for coming together, for helping each other and for putting their comfort aside for the lives of the less fortunate.

I hope this faith and generosity continues.

I hope it doesn't take another flood for this city to keep loving on each other.

I can't let myself forget, and get back into my comfortable college bubble.

I can't.

poor nashville

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the street behind my school

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Welp, now it's just you Kathleen.

You'll be fine. You know that right?
Just try to be strong.
It's okay if you're not sometimes.
but still try.