Humanity
Bless your heart.
I'll never forget meeting my ex boyfriend's family in Cington Georgia. It was 1978 and I was twenty three years old. I had never been to Georgia and my only association was peaches. I was excited to taste one fresh from a farm. The land was rolling hills, often thick with kudsu. It felt wet and dense. We were deep in the country and the history and energy of it was quite old. Very Southern Baptist.
By Susan Kulkowitz5 years ago in Confessions
"SHANITA" MEANS A BEAUTIFUL GIFT FROM GOD
When I awake in the morning, I make sure to start my day off with gratitude and prayer. It is what sustains my day and provides mental preparation for how I handle my external environment. Meditation proceeds, but I’m still working on how to clear my mind longer than ten seconds. I stay dedicated. I drink a glass of water before I exercise, and complete my other recreational tasks, so that around 11 am my day begins.
By Beautiful Intelligence5 years ago in Confessions
Curved Bowls and Medicine for Melancholy
A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality? Stephen Hawking
By Tom Brad5 years ago in Confessions
Reverse Immigration
My first day at the job I was lectured by another teacher for wearing shoes inside the school. He scolded me in a language familiar, yet completely foreign to my ears. I was late getting on the bus, so it didn't phase me in the slightest. I remember hearing him laugh later on with the other teachers thinking that I was another student. I laughed too. I was fresh out of college and everything about my face and features looked the same as them. It was reassuring knowing that for once in my life everyone else around me looked like me.
By Dan Lee5 years ago in Confessions
WEIRDOS
The story of my life is “I don’t fit in.” I can remember listening to Mariah Carey’s Album, “Butterfly,” singing the words to the song, “Outside, around the age of ten.” It went something like this… “You’ll always be, somewhere on the outside.” What’s even more affirming is that I’m an Aquarius and Aquarians don’t fit in. Uranus is our ruling planet which simply means rebellion. Although I never thought of myself as such, I see why I am. I do not have the same beliefs as my family. I am an “out of the box” thinker. I love to debate and challenge other’s perspectives, and most of all I can’t be controlled or conform unless I agree with the situation at hand. Other rebellious qualities are that we are known to stand up passionately for the things we believe in, and usually becomes activists through music or our artistic gifts.
By Beautiful Intelligence5 years ago in Confessions
Passionate for Love
Did you know that there are 53,0000 homeless people on the streets every night. 25 % percent of the homeless are people with severe mental illness. 30% of the homeless population are children. Where you aware that out of every 10,000 veterans 21 are living on the streets? Helping these people and showing them love is my passion. There is nothing like the feeling that comes with not knowing where you are going to lay your head down during the night. I speak from personal experience, I know what it is like. There is a deep feeling of dreed that comes from the fact you have no safe place to be.
By Adriane Kirby5 years ago in Confessions
THE LONG ROAD TO A HAPPY LIFE
The definition of happy is 1. feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. Or 2. having a sense of confidence in or satisfaction with a person or situation or arrangement. The road to find this in my own life was a long one. I spent many years thinking if I could just make enough money, find the right person, or have enough material things I would have happiness.
By Adriane Kirby5 years ago in Confessions
Living behind a Façade
The life I have led has been one that has fed into my insecurities, rather than work beyond them or remove them. There are so many stories that I can share that highlight a time where I felt alone, afraid, or not able to fit in. But with my current life direction, the path I rest on feels just about right for this take, a feeling like a fish in the giant pond that is life.
By Alejandro Melgar5 years ago in Confessions
To thine own self be true
In this video Johnny Paycheck says he feels like an old violin soon to be put away and never played again. How many times have you ever felt this way? Or how many times have you felt like you don't belong no matter how hard you try? I have felt that way many times but the most uncomfortable was at church. I didn't seem to fit in with the congregation, oh I was accepted just didn't feel welcome. That can really be unnerving and intimidating. There have been numerous times in my life that I felt like this. I will discuss a couple of them.
By Lawrence Edward Hinchee5 years ago in Confessions
