Dream Come True

So I just finished another painting at 2am this morning and I have to say I love it. But! I cannot take all the credit for the idea, for it was my dearest best friend, Reyn Harpole, who actually inspired it. Back in December of 2006 he wrote me a letter containing a poem. While waiting on permission from Reyn, I would like to share it and pray he doesn't mind:

Dream Come True
By: Reyn Harpole

A feeling I can never let go,
one that consumes me entirely.
Thoughts of forever flood my mind,
forever is my hopes and dreams.
A love that burns everlasting.
Dreams and sweet scents surrounding,
like the air around I breathe.
Calm and cool touch generating,
molding me into something higher.
Activity around me fades to black,
and the world is you and I.
I am focused and driven,
not even fate can stop me in my dreams;
a place where you are always there,
a place where you wait for me at home,
and the trees all grow upside down,
so that we forever walk in flowers.
Constantly your sweetness engulfs me,
all the little things.
A dream of forever,
an ambitious dream,
where everything is perfect.
And when I look into your eyes so deep,
and you softly whisper to me,
'I love you';we are perfect.
Suddenly this is no longer a dream,
for it has now come true,
we are each others' and I love you.

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Here Lately

So I've been taking a lot of pictures over the past few days and I'm really beginning to love photography, as in it is taking over my life love. I wish I didn't have school. I also wish I could carry my camera around everywhere with me. I'm noticing that every time I drive somewhere or walk throughout campus I find new picture ideas but no way to take them. I actually just might start doing that. So don't make fun of the red head who refuses to take her camera off her neck during class. Anyways, here are just a few of my absolute favorites that I have taken:

Class Canceled

So my only class for the day got canceled so I decided to take that time and enjoy the beautiful weather at Research Park. This is how my morning went:

1. Woke up and made a delicious breakfast.
2. Headed to the Rec to find out my class is canceled.
3. Headed to Research Park instead.
4. Spent a good 30 minutes practicing yoga while trying to keep from falling in the pond. (I was standing on the little rock walkway where one pond flows into the other.)
5. Spent the next 10 minutes in silence listening to the ducks that were splashing playfully in the water a few feet from me.
6. Wished I had bread to feed the ducks.
7. Watched an inchworm climb a rock.
8. Got greeted by an overly enthusiastic labrador.
9. Enjoyed some simple conversation with my Savior.
10. Reluctantly left to go study for an upcoming test...see how well that's going. :)

How I Feel...

Here lately, I feel as if I have been holding back a lot of who I am. Scared to be a little crazy? Yes. But I'm slowly beginning to realize that is who I am. So why hold back? Well I've decided I'm not going to anymore. So to start it off, I had a crazy whim to paint something but had no idea of what. I've always told myself I can only paint pictures of other pictures; that I needed something to look at. So I decided to try something different and just go with how I felt at the moment. Well this is what I got: How I feel for myself, my sister, this world, etc...

It's Been A While...

Well, it's been a while. Hopefully I will have more free time to blog now that things are starting to slow down a bit. Though I have the time now, unfortunately I do not have the energy. A lot is going on. Friends, family, relationships, God, School...I am extremely emotionally drained. I feel as though I have nothing left in me, but I keep truckin' cause I have to. Anyways, hopefully I will be posting stuff soon.