Moving Up Together-A New Project

I am excited because I’ve created something I am proud of. 

It’s called “Moving up Together” a blog that allows anyone to post a picture and blurb about a failure they’ve experienced and how it has inspired them. 

The goal of the project is to remind participants  that they are not alone in their everyday mess-ups, but rather connected to others and empowered by them. And by observing how other participants have internalized their failures in a positive light, both participants and observers of the blog will hopefully be inspired to do the same.

Feel free to post when your ready. 

http://www.tumblr.com/blog/movinguptogether

 

A Remedy to Boredom

The media. The Internet. It bombards us with a variety of information everyday—ranging from the newest world crisis to boobs.

To be honest, compared to the instant gratification that television and Internet provide, reality can be painfully slow and mundane.

But then I remember to stop thinking in terms of what is around me and instead, what isn’t.

And it occurs to me that every-time I remove myself from reality, I pull away from the chance of experiencing something new.

From potentially missing what is known as an “island in the sky.” While we be chilling in our rooms, giant sandstones, that have grown from the ground up to 10,000 feet, live above our heads.

As we walk to work or class, flowers that we have never seen before shift in the wind and unknown, colorful animals scurry on the mossy surface of a sandstone that is 1.8 billion years old.

So now whenever I feel stuck in reality’s predictability, I remember that somewhere, there is an island in the sky.

We may not be able to see the unknown, but it is still there. Ready to take our breath away.

See: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/09/130928-tepuis-pebble-toads-biodiversity-evolution-science/

The Land of Gathering

“The Land of Gathering is a metaphysical space that everyone has the potential to reach in their own minds. It is a place free from the burden of objecthood and the notion of reality where all things are “completed”—similar to that world of possibility and wonderment naturally experienced through the eyes of a child. There, everything is a work of art with an innate potential for endless movement and altering—unity.”

I love this so much.