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[Oct. 8th, 2009|01:27 am] |
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[Oct. 7th, 2009|11:12 am] |
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i want nothing more from life then the simple purpose of sharing love & giving as much of myself as i can to help another human being. it's easy to get tangled up in this "fogged reality", so i try to step back & get grounded. life is a gift & a beautiful journey. do what makes you happy. be with who makes you smile. laugh as much as you breathe. love as long as you live. |
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[Oct. 4th, 2009|05:37 pm] |
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And all I am to you now is a bridge that's been burned...
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[Sep. 30th, 2009|07:28 pm] |
The greatest loss in life is not death;
it’s what dies inside of you while you're still alive. |
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[Sep. 20th, 2009|10:51 am] |
Life doesn't give you the people you want, it gives you the people you need.
To help you, to hurt you, to love you, to leave you;
to make you into the person you were meant to be.
Life is a series of twists and turns. Things
don't always turn out the way you expected.
- The Wonder Years -.
I close my eyes and all I see is you.
I close my eyes, I try to sleep, I cant forget you.
It's hard to wait around for something that may never happen,
but it's even harder to give up when it's everything you want. |
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[Sep. 19th, 2009|01:25 pm] |
You could ink yourself until everyone knows all the things you love. You could wear uniforms that gave you all the authority in the world. Lose weight until there was nothing left, Paint your face and suck in your gut. But in the dark, stripped down to your bones, all that remains is you.
We've all been down this path before.
You're trapped in this town and it wears you down. |
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[Sep. 18th, 2009|04:24 pm] |
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inside all of us is a wild thing |
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[Sep. 18th, 2009|10:42 am] |
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
-anne frank
We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world.
she's not everything she wishes she could be,
but she's everything she needs to be. |
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| :( always should worry when it starts to go good... |
[Sep. 10th, 2009|09:06 pm] |
"I gotta notion to say what doesn't feel right. Got an answer in your story today, It gave
me a sign that didn't feel right. So don't knock it, don't knock it- you've been here before" |
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[Sep. 10th, 2009|08:47 pm] |
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I've learned you can never expect anything
from anyone, no matter who it is. The second
you expect something from someone, you're
setting yourself up for heartbreak.
I am tired now from the inside out
And nothing can stop the war that I've started with myself
He was my cream and I was his coffee and when you poured us together, you got something.
-Josephine Baker
I'm not every girl and I don't need the world to validate me.
So many roads, so many detours. So many choices, so many mistakes. As we drive along this road called life, occasionally a girl will find herself a little lost. And when that happens, I guess she has to let go of the coulda, shoulda, woulda, buckle up and just keep going. |
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[Sep. 9th, 2009|06:58 am] |
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I have this trick— anything you can do to me, I do to myself already. And I hit harder than you ever could. |
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[Aug. 31st, 2009|10:12 pm] |
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when life is like a hurricane, flying off the rails like a fast train
everything around me is so insane...you come and take it all away.
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[Aug. 23rd, 2009|01:59 pm] |
It hurts just to wake up, whenever you're wearing thin and it takes lots of little steps to break free
don't tell me where the road ends, cause I just don't wanna know.
Never ever saw it coming at all
It's alright, open wide here comes original sin
It's alright, no one's got it all |
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[Aug. 22nd, 2009|03:54 pm] |
the world will tell you who you are, until you tell them
I believe in love and lust and sex and romance.
I don’t want everything to add up to some perfect equation.
I want mess and chaos.
I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me.
I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness
I want it all. |
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[Aug. 21st, 2009|11:23 am] |
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Every sinner loved a saint to begin with.
There are some things we just don't admit because we don't like the way they sound
I can't really offer you much. But I can offer you that empty spot of carpet right next to me. I can offer you late nights, of you and I sitting together.
"Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we've got."
Things break all the time.
Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
Promises break.
Hearts break.
You have to find something. Something that anchors you,
something that keeps you looking forward. Even on the bad days,
the days when you're tempted to look back." |
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[Aug. 20th, 2009|11:12 pm] |
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Poor little doggie!
Mugly, winner of the 2005 title for Britain's Ugliest Dog, was victim of an attack by a group of thugs in Cambridgeshire this past week.
The practically hairless dog was rescued by a good samaritan who witnessed the animal being kicked, punched and hit with a stick!
Terrible!!!
"They had pulled out a little tuft of hair he had on his neck," said owner Bev Nicholson. "It was the only hair he had and they even managed to take off one of his eyebrows. I can't even work out how they would have done that."
Mugly was returned home with a few cuts and bruises, yet he was extremely shaken.
"You just can't think why these people would do such a horrible thing," continued the owner. "It's horrible because he loves people so much he probably thought it was just a game and all they were interested in was hurting him."
It breaks my heart!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE ;(
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| Vick: Hope your speaking from the heart and hope your heart isn't ugly anymore |
[Aug. 18th, 2009|08:46 pm] |
"The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights. And that put it all into perspective,"
Very few people knew what was happening in his life off the field. When police raided a farm he owned in rural Virginia in 2007, they uncovered an interstate dogfighting operation called "Bad Newz Kennels."
They removed 66 dogs, and exhumed the bodies of eight more. They also found dogfighting paraphernalia and a pit where fights were held.
The dogs that were saved - raised and trained to be vicious fighters - are now being rehabilitated in hopes of being adopted, all at the expense of Vick, who was ordered by a judge to pay nearly $1 million for the effort.
"And the operation, Michael, that you pleaded guilty to bankrolling, to being a part of, engaged in barbarous treatment of the animals - beating them, shooting them, electrocuting them, drowning them. Horrific things, Michael," Brown remarked.
"It's wrong, man," Vick said. "I don't know how many times I gotta tell, I gotta say it. I mean it was wrong. I feel tremendous hurt behind what happened. And, you know, I should’ve took the initiative to stop it all. And I didn't. And I feel so bad about that now. And I know that I didn't I didn't step up. I wasn't a leader."
Efforts in turning it all around: ??
Their first effort was in Atlanta last weekend, where Vick talked to children in neighborhoods like the one he grew up in. "I encourage you to love your animals. Whatever animals you have, whether it’s a dog, a cat, a reptile, if it's a horse. I so encourage you to love that animal dearly and with all your heart," he said at the event.
It's a message Vick says he never heard when he was a kid in Newport News, Va., where he was first exposed to dogfighting when he was eight years old.
"I was introduced very young, so I didn't think it was wrong because I'd seen older guys condoning it and then, you know, doing it," Vick said.
"You shared with me the story about, even the police riding through the neighborhood and seeing what was happening. Explain that situation," Brown asked.
"When they got out the car and seen that, you know, it was two dogs fighting, they got back in the car and they left. So that right there kind of made me feel like, 'Okay, you know, this ain't - it is not as bad as it may seem.' We didn't think it was bad at the time. And, you know, that kind of put a stamp on it," Vick said.
"We knew it was a huge issue before Michael Vick was prosecuted, but the public didn't know. We estimate there are 40,000 professional dogfighters in the country and perhaps 100,000 street fighters. We're talking about something that's occurring in every part of the country, rural and urban, white, black, Latino. It's an industry," Pacelle said.
Asked what the attraction is, Pacelle told Brown, "People enjoy watching these animals compete and fight. They get excited by the bloodletting. They gamble on the outcomes. The fights may last ten minutes, they may last three hours. Dogs die from shock, they die from blood loss. They suffer, if they survive the process, to maybe fight again. All for what?"
When the allegations of dogfighting first arose, Vick made another monumental mistake. He lied about it to everybody: law enforcement, his family, his coaches, and to NFL Commissioner Goodell.
"I was scared. I knew my career was in jeopardy. I knew I had endorsement with Nike and I knew it was gonna be a big letdown. I felt the guilt and I knew I was guilty, and I knew what I had done. And, not knowing at the time that, you know, actually telling the truth may have been better than not being honest. And it backfired on me tremendously," Vick said.
"Will you be committed to all that you said, that folks are hearing you say today?" Brown asked Vick.
"Still. Still. And I'm gonna let my actions continue to speak louder than my words. And I'm gonna still be involved in the community, because I still - regardless of football - would have a voice that can have an impact on kids, because I've been a living example of what not to do," he said.
Deserving of a second chance?? I have no idea how I feel about that ... I just hope everything that he spoke of was 100% from the heart and truthful, not just to play football again- maybe he will help change things around and be a role model for what not to do ... only time will tell. |
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[Aug. 17th, 2009|06:44 pm] |
i'm just going to keep going
and one day i'll stop and look back
and wonder how i got so far away from all of this
one day it will hit me
that maybe i shouldve just stood still for a bit
But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. |
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