January 2011
aylamarie- asked: Hey Hope! :) I've been thinking about looking into the florist thing as something I could pursue during college, and even just as a fun thing to know. How was florist school? Perhaps you could give me some insight? Thanks, and I hope life is treating you well :)
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Rocket Man
Mom: What do you think that song is about?
Me: It is about a man so disconnect from his current life. Although that disconnect brings him sadness, there is still something so beautiful and adventurous about ......(continue into 15 minute in depth rhetorical analysis by reading over every stanza in the song and finding a deeper meaning) ......so what do you think the song is about?
Mom: An astronaut.
fashionculture asked: Since I am majoring in Fashion Merchandising Management I am at Brookdale Community, and living at the beach in my apartment. So it's nice. Enjoying school?
fashionculture asked: Since I am majoring in Fashion Merchandising Management I am at Brookdale Community, and living at the beach in my apartment. So it's nice. Enjoying school?
Chapter 8
Chapter 8: Sorrow and Joy (From The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran)
Then a woman said, “Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow.”
And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds...
Reality is a metaphor in which we quest to find answers to the greater truth of who we are and why we are here. Something in our souls tells us that change is happening on a global consciousness level.
"Have you ever made a just man?" "Oh, I have made three," answered God, "But two of them are dead, And the third -- Listen! Listen! And you will hear the thud of his defeat." -Stephen Crane
2010 Reflection
2010 has been a very crazy ride for me. Ending old realities and starting new experiences are many of the highlights, but I find that one common thread throughout the whole year was this idea of a temporary existence. It was a very different idea for me in the beginning of the year after getting out of high school. Up until graduation, everything in my life was so….used to? I was getting...