I've just finished my junior year at Western Washington University and am home for the summer before I go back and graduate. I love my country, but see where we can and should improve. When did the value of a life become so worthless that we fight for peace and kill for democracy? There are so many problems within our own country that we aren't addressing; instead we're bombing innocents in other countries and pressing our own moral flaws on others. Humanity as a whole has not been gonig in the direction of peace. For thousands of years there have been wars and killing, when are people going to realize the potential for love in everyone of us and stop the resistance? When I'm not in school or studying I'm playing around outside or kicking it with friends. Parkour is awesome. If you haven't heard of it check it out here,
Western Front Online . It's a audio slide-show voiced by a friend of mine Rafe. There are a couple cool pictures of us having some fun.
"The Tao begot one.
One begot two.
Two begot three.
And the three begot the ten thousand things.The ten thousand things carry yin and embrace yang.
They achieve harmony by combining these forces.Men hate to be "orphaned,""widowed," or "worthless,"
But this is how kings and lords describe themselves.For one gains by losing
And loses by gaining.What others teach, I also teach; that is:
"a violent man will die a violent death!"
This will be the essence of my teaching."
-Lao Tsu
"I say, that if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life!"- Calvin and Hobbes
"The degree of human ignorance is so massive, it defies description." Wolfe
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King Jr.
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn." Phil Collins
"My breathe on the nape of your neck,
Yours sounds in my ears.
Lips brush, minds race,
And in all the universe,
Only one thing is on our minds:
Eachother."
"Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of wishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and re-cycling it for more than it's worth."
Baz Luhrmann
"Vexation of spirit is a waste of time
Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts
Verbal conflict is a waste of word
Physical conflict is a waste of flesh
People will always be who they want
And that's what really makes the world go round
Unconditional love is scarce
Now and forever more
Forever more, forever more..."
Damian Marley
"So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!"
Peter Pan
"I believe in the formless and eternal Tao, and I recognize all personified deities as being mere human constructs. I reject hatred, intolerance, and unnecessary violence, and embrace harmony, love and learning, as I am taught by Nature. I place my trust and my life in the Tao, that I may live in peace and balance with the Universe, both in this mortal life and beyond."
Here are a few free writings that I've been working on:
"My breathe on the nape of your neck,
Yours sounds in my ears.
Lips brush, minds race,
And in all the universe,
Only one thing is on our minds:
Eachother."
-Donny Nichols
"Closing your eyes
You slowly visualize
Just who & what you'll become.This journey coined life
Will surely bring strife
But how will you choose to cope?You see many roads
Where your life implodes
Living forever in a shell of your former self.The paths where you shine
Are the best sort of kind
Spreading happiness and love all around.Ask me and I'll say LIFE
I've battled the strife
And I'll follow the trails of light."
-Donny Nichols
"For all your prayers
Which ones does he hear?
And were any of them answered?
For those who say yes
That's reckless at best
For you're looking at things not there.
Now why do you try
To look up above?
When all we have is here.
You say others pray
For you and yours
But have you ever heard them?
Now what would it take
For you to loose faith
In a power you cannot comprehend?
Tell those you love.
Stop looking above.
For love you can truly hold."
-Donny Nichols
"These now flourishing feelings once were not there,
But the intoxicated attraction of a young mans stare,
Drew us together and ever since then,
I've been your man and you my woman.
Now after some time,
You're the only thought in my mind,
Every night laying alone,
Every new cold morn,
I can't get you out,
But I don't want you gone,
I wish there was some resolution
We could fall back on.
Now we're apart but when we're again joined,
I'll be lost in your beauty, the fire of my loins,
For the love we'll make will be passionate and deep,
And we'll finally enjoy all that we have reaped.
Every night laying alone,
Every new cold morn,
I can't get you out,
But I don't want you gone."
-Donny Nichols
