Everybody Talks. Neon Trees.
The cracks in the turquoise run deep, run imperfectly, yet run beautifully. Tumblr is new to me, but I will try and be something of substance, making my thoughts and information, I once believed were cracks, transparent to all, and most importantly beautiful to me.
Plus. Let's face it...who doesn't want to be cracked up?
Plus. Let's face it...who doesn't want to be cracked up?
Never, Ever Give Up. Arthur’s Inspirational Transformation!
Arthur Boorman was a disabled veteran of the Gulf War for 15 years, and was told by his doctors that he would never be able to walk on his own, ever again.
His story is proof, that we cannot place limits on what we are capable of doing, because we often do not know our own potential. In less than a year, Arthur completely transformed his life. If only he had known what he was capable of, 15 years earlier.
Do not waste any time thinking you are stuck - you can take control over your life, and change it faster than you might think.
Hopefully this story can inspire you to follow your dreams - whatever they may be. Anything is Possible!
Service
“Everybody can be great, because anyone can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” -MLK
I had the pleasure of visiting the American Embassy here in Madrid yesterday. I met the American Ambassador and listened to him talk inspirationally about service, thanking my fellow classmates and me for our work with t-oigo, a tutoring/mentoring program for deaf Spanish children, with either cochlear implants or hearing aids, who wish to learn English. Not only does T-oigo provide Spanish citizens with information for deaf persons, but it also inspires them to challenge themselves by learning not only how to orally communicate through their native Spanish language, but also learn a second language, English. Service has always been close to my heart, I feel like it is the duty of everyone to give back to one another to better our community and serving those you would wish to be served by if the positions were switched. During the Ambassador’s speech, he quoted Martin Luther King. “Everyone can be great, because anyone can serve.” Through service, we have the opportunity to be great, to better ourselves, to give someone else the opportunity to be great…spread love and faith and bravery and strength and justice and hope. We can do so many things through service. MLK strongly advocated service and continuously said that “life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you going to do for others?’”. As I end my semester abroad in Madrid, contemplating the service I have done through the program t-oigo (http://www.t-oigo.com/main.lasso) and in my practicas in spanish hospitals as requirements for my nursing major, I want to discover just how this service has made me great and helped others in the process. I want to move into summer, using my free time to serve others on an entirely different level, on a level of mutual respect and one filled with souls generated by pure love and I challenge everyone else to do the same.
Swing Honor Around, There is No Honor in Honor Killing
Vogue's New Health Initiative
Vogue magazine has just released a new “Health Initiative” stating that they want to help change the way women view their bodies by changing their guidelines for all models featured in Vogue in the future. Some new guidelines include not using models under the age of 16 and not using models who appear to have an eating disorder. This sounds like such a promising change. If Vogue can make this happen, and most importantly stick to it, using it for every ad and every campaign they do from here on out, I think other magazines will follow. Good for them being the first magazine to ever make a public statement such as this. I pray they hold to their promises! Yay healthy body images!!!
“Brief:
To design the corporate identity for an organ donation initiative. Since it was our only tool of communication, the design had to instantly convey the message of organ donation. Whatever we designed had to strike an emotional chord and subtly prompt people to open up to the idea.
Creative execution:
When you pledge an organ, you gift someone a new life. We simply brought this insight to life through our design.”
Dr. Hawa Abdi’s Response to Nobel Peace Prize Nomination:
“I want to tell you [in the] last 27 years, I have given my people my heart and my soul. Still I did not lose my hope. One day my people’s lives will change in a better way. I hope my children and the children who grow in camp, and are born in the hospital, will change the lives of Somali people, because I trained them to be honest, and be hard-working. The Nobel Peace Prize nomination comes at the right time. I was in a low level of hope. But the nomination lifted my morale and it gave me the continuous keeping of hope alive. If I win Nobel Peace Prize, I will empower economically Somali women and give home for homeless people. Thank you.
“I want to tell you [in the] last 27 years, I have given my people my heart and my soul. Still I did not lose my hope. One day my people’s lives will change in a better way. I hope my children and the children who grow in camp, and are born in the hospital, will change the lives of Somali people, because I trained them to be honest, and be hard-working. The Nobel Peace Prize nomination comes at the right time. I was in a low level of hope. But the nomination lifted my morale and it gave me the continuous keeping of hope alive. If I win Nobel Peace Prize, I will empower economically Somali women and give home for homeless people. Thank you.
