Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Eckhart Tolle
(via thatkindofwoman)
Had so much fun shooting with my talented (and gorgeous!) friend @charliebuhler
peaks & valleys
Do not beat yourself up
for your choice
to lay low.
Remember,
peaks are to valleys
as happy is to sad.
Born of the same mother,
they hold on to each other.
A bond of two brothers,
forms the journey of lovers
For those who find love
are the ones who once suffered.
Embrace every low,
then rise as a Lover.
Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.
(via josephyao)
Earth.
Press the earth with your presence
Sense the soil in each step
Remain faithful to gravity
Keep your heart up.
Dig deep into dirt, when conflict erupts.
A soul deeply rooted
cannot be touched
Stay true to your purpose,
Keep your mind to the ground
Humble thoughts, unexploited
Not lost, but found.
Anonymous asked: You seem really intelegrnt & Youre a pretty girl, you just seem far from humble about it. Maybe theres more humility in confidently being aware of it than eagerly flaunting it for attention.
I respect the honesty, and your opinion. I have no problem laughing at myself and know that I’m not perfect - however, I appreciate my friends & family because of their willingness to discuss things with me openly, not behind an anonymous question. It takes more than reading a blog and seeing a picture to know someone - and I hope one day we do meet in person or have an open conversation, so that I can prove your assumptions wrong :)
Anonymous asked: Girl, ignore the haters! With the whole picture posting thing, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. If you post pictures, people call you arrogant. If you don't, they say you've got something to hide or are ashamed. I think being proud of who you are is a lot better than being ashamed. We already live in a world with one too many girls with low self-esteems. So continue to let your beauty shine!
thank you, I appreciate that! I completely agree with you - and I think it’s hilarious because 90% of my pictures look like this:
haha! I have absolutely no problem in laughing at myself, and anyone who knows me personally is well aware of that. But thank you for the positive words and I appreciate you reading :)
Anonymous asked: Just a music suggestion! Listen to Rani Mukherji by Blue Scholar. I have a strong feeling you'd appreciate it and not just because it's in reference to a Bollywood actress haha.
thank you!! I will definitely check it out :)
Anonymous asked: Obsessed with your own face much?
obsessed with anonymous questions much? haha - thank you for following my blog, I appreciate all readers!
Future LMU Grad, 25, Began College in Prison ›
via NBC
Growing up in a racially divided South Los Angeles neighborhood, Prophet Walker found himself deep in that divide at only 16 years old.
“My immediate environment was something that played a huge role in my life,” Walker said. “There was just a hub of violence happening and I wanted to get away.”
He describes his surroundings as “plagued with violence” and covered in graffiti.
“I would walk outside as a kid and my head would itch with frustration of where I was at and what my immediate surroundings looked like,” he recalled.
In 2004, one moment would change the course of his life.
It was a sunny day and he was off from school when he and couple friends decided to take the train to the beach. When they got off, they were surrounded by a group of Latino men.
“Someone asked what time it was and the response was not very cordial,” he remembers. “What I thought was just a fight that had gone somewhat awry as a 16-year-old turned into me being tried as an adult.”
Walker was convicted of assault causing great bodily injury. He admitted to breaking the jaw of one of the men in the group.
He spent nearly six years in state prison.
He started in a juvenile detention center. It was there that he began taking courses that taught him to write. But it didn’t last.
Within two years he was moved to an adult maximum security prison with no such courses. But it was there that he met a man that made him realize what he needed to do to survive.
“I remember telling him I should be in college with the rest of my friends and his response was, ‘Well, do it,’” Walker, now 25, recalls with a smile. “’Figure out how to do it.’”
Walker says his grandfather sent him books to read, but it wasn’t for leisure.
“It was Socrates and Plato and Mulier,” he said. “And the more I began to read about these guys the more I began to think, ‘Well, maybe I can do something with my own life.’”
Walker coupled his reading with his writing and started to change the tone of what he wrote. He focused on his life, what he wanted to do with it. Each essay was more personal than the last.
He wrote to his own daughter, who was waiting for him on the outside.
“I will be able to effectively change the trajectory of her life now. That continues to empower me. She’ll one day, hopefully, be able to change the trajectory of others’ lives,” Walker said.
Walker was able to take college courses and, while still in prison graduated, with an associate’s degree.
His story became an inspiration for other inmates, too.
“I ended up being surrounded by a hundred other guys that wanted nothing more than to change their lives,” Walker recalled.
He applied to college as his final days in prison wound down.
And now, on Saturday, he’ll be a graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles with a degree in engineering.
But perhaps more importantly, he leaves college with this lesson: “If you have a dream, no matter how big, no matter how small, you have to fight for it with everything in you.”
And Walker’s journey in life continues. He says he plans to file to run for a seat in the California Legislature, representing Compton, next year.
