How a White Girl Does Life

February 23, 2018 We officially have 71 days until graduation and the last time that I checked we had 111. What? It has been a lot of bittersweet realizations about how much change is coming in the next six to nine months. When I was on the phone with my mom the other day and she pointed out that I have to change my address this summer because I am moving in with my aunt. For the past 21 years, I have had the same address and lived in the same house. How can it be that it's changing? I knew that it would become part of my life but yet I'm not prepared for it. Also, the realization that there are people I see everyday that I won't when I start school in the fall. For a moment, I wondered how will I make it? Yet, I know that I have Snapchat and insta and more ways than I can imagine to communicate with the people in my life that I love so dearly. I have always been a sentimental person but even more so as I realize that I will be leaving. Another aspect of that has be...

February 7th, 2018 In the past few days, I've had this thought resonating with me. Even the mighty fall. For me, that is quite literal because of my unfortunate ability of falling everywhere. However, the gears have really started turning as to what falls look like for others as well. For me it is literal but what about the spiritual, emotional, metaphorical falls that we can take in life. If it's losing a job that leaves your family without a way to put food on a table. If it's losing a parent that leaves emotional damage that is impossible to see past. If it is not getting into a graduate school that leaves your future unknown. If it is a hurting relationship that leaves scars in ways that we don't know how to heal. All of these falls are darkness that can be hard to see past and in moments can be all consuming. However, with this sadness there is a quote of hope that has followed with that. I couldn't tell you where I found it or heard it but I think it was...