I am enough

“You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside….You don’t have to put your hand on Mary’s heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life — you can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart….All those times your father treated you mean, Our Lady was the voice in you that said, ‘No, I will not bow down to this. I am Lily Melissa Owens, I will not bow down.’ Whether you could hear this voice or not, she was in there saying it….When you’re unsure of yourself, when you start pulling back into doubt and small living, she’s the one inside saying, ‘Get up from there and live like the glorious girl you are.’….She’s the power inside you, you understand?….And whatever it is that keeps widening your heart, that’s Mary, too, not only the power inside you but the love….And when you get down to it, Lily, that’s the only purpose grand enough for a human life….Not just to love, but to persist in love….This Mary I’m talking about sits in your heart all day long, saying, ‘Lily, you are my everlasting home. Don’t you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough….”

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I am alive

I sing to soothe my soul and to find the beauty in the music all around me.
I talk to engage with other people and to exchange different energies.
I dance to allow my body to find the beauty in the music all around.
I read to envelop myself in a world that is yet to exist.
I write [...]

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To be right or not to be….that is indeed the question…

I just finished watching the first debate between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain. And I thought to myself how convinced each of them is in believing that he is indeed the best and right choice to become the next President of the United States of America. I have, up until the point of [...]

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Heartstrings…pulling at my heartstrings…

So I am in love with Anthony David’s song “Heartstrings“.
You see, sometimes in life, we have people, situations, things that pull on our heartstrings, pull us in a direction that is somewhat scary to us, most definitely unknown, but we know that we have no choice. And not as in we don’t have any other [...]

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I feel like a butterfly…

I feel like a butterfly…or rather a caterpillar growing into a butterfly.
I remember in 5th grade, in Ms. O’Neal’s class, we watched caterpillars grow into butterflies. We got them in one of those kits that you order and had them in a glass case with branches and everything. I don’t remember all of the details [...]

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shedding…

This day, this week, this month, hell even this year has been one in which I have been struggling to outgrow my old layer of skin. I feel more sure of myself, I see the beauty within myself more than I ever have, I bounce back from disappointment much quicker now, and I lean a [...]

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being honest…

“some of them want to use you/some of them want to be used by you/some of them want to confuse you/some of them want to be abused/sweet dreams are made of these/who am I to disagree/travel the world and the seven seas/everybody’s looking for something”
I just happened to hear this song as I was sitting [...]

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becoming a blog/writing addict….

I have not posted in over a week now and I must admit, it has sucked. It has sucked because I have failed to give myself a space to place my thoughts, thoughts that are just being born, just beginning to fly, or just those that are somewhere stuck in limbo. And it has made [...]

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coming back to me…what a beautiful joy

I don’t know what to title this post quite yet…maybe I will figure it out by the time I am done writing…maybe I won’t…but I can tell you that today is one of those days where my head feels too full and my heart feels too heavy.
today, I was presented with a question which slightly [...]

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And so I begin….

So, a friend of mine sent me a link to this NY Times article that touched upon the campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton and the Sex and the City movie. Instead of writing an email, I decided to post on this blog…
Sexism: Hillary Clinton & Sex and the City
Personal reflection upon the article:
It is interesting [...]

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