i'm all about the causes these days

watch this video, and if you don't like it, at least watch the interviews with kids.

a cause i can get behind

hi people. i posted this video on facebook, and i'm posting it here because it is visually awesome and something i believe in. i think a lot of us have probably felt deep down that girls are the answer or the solution to a lot of our world's problems, and that's because girls grow up to be mothers of the world.

i've explored the site and hope to explore more and find a way to get involved. take five minutes and check it out yourself here.

if you have thoughts, positive or negative, hopeful or cynical, i'd like to hear them.

your life is your masterpiece

i saw the trailer for this movie a while back, and i had a pretty strong feeling it was gonna be good. people, it was good. i don't like to endorse movies or political candidates, so only go see it if your heart tells you it's right. if your heart does tell you that, and you want someone in the seat next to you, give me a ring. i'll see it a thousand more times.

maybe i loved it because of the colors and sounds and because it made me feel like i was in india, which is where i'd like to go if i was tenacious enough.

maybe i loved it because it just continued the message the universe has been shouting at me, which is "your life is your masterpiece. don't be afraid of it. don't run away from it. your choice is your power, and happiness is your choice."

i've been sliding on the surface of time lately, projecting myself into the future to see how different choices might feel in thirty years, and here's what i've come up with. i will love my life no matter what because i have chosen it, have made it, have put my stamp on each minute i stand on. i'm slowly giving up the idea of one right path and exchanging it with the idea of the path i chose and the paths i didn't. to live would be gift enough, but to have that life as my own mortal playground, my own canvas, my own extraordinary experiment of love------------- 

Have courage and clear goals and you will win over life

i just read something stunning. please read it here (on one of the coolest sites i've ever encountered.)

here's one of many favorite parts:

"But in order to be a truly positive person in all circumstances, one has to learn how to distinguish real gold from tinsel. It is hard, because tinsel sometimes glitters so dazzlingly. I confess, my child, that often in my life I was dazzled by glitter. And sometimes it even shone so falsely, that one dropped pure gold from one's hand and reached for, or ran after, false gold."