"I just saw your reconsider privilege poem. It is so beautiful and heart felt. You are an old soul indeed. I so admire your compassion and earnestness in trying to make sense of this crazy world we live in."


Words of kindness and support ~ so grateful <3

from my dear friend

"I'm so happy to hear you are embracing the process! It's so important to be present during the growth phases that are heavier on the heart. You'll make it through anything - that's what I always believe :) You're a beautiful human!"

to be great you have to be willing to be misunderstood, genius is generally ahead of its time

Friend that is always there.... Thank you for keeping me sane and supported D.A.

i'm hugging u right now

at least it feels

it's okay to be sad
or hurt...part of being alive

There's a lot of love in this world. There' a lot of love available to everybody. Sometimes what it takes is stop doing the things that you think are necessary in order to get other people to love you. Then you are going to find out how much love there really is, all around you.


just breathe deep
turn off your brain and stop doing and start asking for what you want
the universe has infinite love to give you

Last night

You are the best friend I've ever had and no one else will fill the void like you do.

I'll miss you K.

wisdom from a friend

Reading someone isn't the easiest thing in the world and people can be complex.
To read someone, you are really feeling them because you know what is going on and you don't have to question

NFit.

4/7/13 Talk w/ friend

Amazing 3.5 hour talk. Soul connection. Sharing life experience. I hope she sees her light. I want to help her see her light.

<3
Grateful,
Jess

Contemplating love

From a friend's blog

II: LOVE
Peck defines love as "The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth" (Peck 81). We are simply incapable of loving another unless we love ourselves first. By defining love as a will, he claims that it's a choice rather than a desire. Love, unlike "falling in love," is not effortless.

"Falling in love" is a feeling linked with sexual or erotic experience. Think of who you have fallen in love with in the past. They were probably not a family member or best friend. The ecstatic feeling of falling in love allows us a temporary escape from the loneliness of our individual identities. This means that the harder you fall in love, the lonelier you were before you met the person you're in love with - an unfortunate truth. Falling in love, according to Peck, is a trick that our genes pull on our minds to trap us into marriage. This trick is especially fostered by our culture's illusion of a "happily ever after." But what happens when this honeymoon period is over? Well, then there is the chance for real love to develop.

Ironically, real love is not rooted in the feeling of love. Sometimes we act loving when we don't feel loving. But real love is an extension of oneself. It is permanently rewarding to the lover and the beloved. Love is rooted in the acceptance of the separate individual identities of the persons involved. Love is not dependency, self-sacrifice, or a feeling. Love is discipline, separateness, the work of attention, and a risk (of loss, independence, commitment, and confrontation). More so than anything else, love is a mystery.

Pain is a constant friend
I just want some healing

" Honesty is the air love needs to breathe. "

~Aaron Jackson

Another person addicted. Another fallen mind. So sad.

2/25/13

First grad school admittance letter today. Celebrating that and a good friend's birthday!



PS. I also got a hair cut today