biking, hiking, camping, photography and video production, any and all sports, and my new found love is martial arts.
we are born with our eyes and our hearts wide open. innocence and youth make it so easy to believe...so easy to fall asleep in someone's arms, to trust in smiles, to see animals float across the sky...to believe your summer will never end. this gift that we're given- to not just hope- but truly believe in people and feelings and all these things under the sun...this ability to act like it all matters...where does that gift go? why does time and experience have to wear it away, instead of building on it? at what point do we lose the courage to believe and then just start hoping? and why do some give up completely? now, i am not the most courageous of sorts...but i'm not willing to give up this most precious gift, for me or for you. i know it won't be easy and i know it shouldn't be. and i'm going to fight for it, everyday. because inside this beautiful struggle to believe, we are given the power to comfort, to heal, to inspire and to love. as i get older, i know my summers may not last forever, but i'm not going to stop believing in the chances that rise with each morning sun. and i know it matters...it always does...the things we do, the things we say, the lives we lead, and the hearts we touch. i want to see giraffes float by, instead of gray clouds, i want to feel the sun, deep inside of me, even when it isn't shining...the have to believe in myslef enough to have the courage to say "i love you" and mean it...and have strength to hear "i love you" and really feel it.
so i will try this again- love actually, notting hill, serendipity, some kind of wonderful, return to me, fried green tomatoes, practical magic, a league of their own, mrs. doubtfire, doc hollywood, down to you, the next best thing, hope floats, 10 things i hate about you, 50 first dates, sliding doors, good will hunting, stigmata, silence of the lambs, the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, garden state, goonies, the christmas story, sixteen candles, breakfast club, the laws of attraction, 40 days and 40 nights, grease 2, the never ending story
the l word,crossing jordan, fear factor, 24, the oc, will and grace, joan of arcadia, law and order, and all of the csi series, forensic files, national geographic channel, sports center, the ellen degeneres show, reruns of dawsons creek
my mom is my hero...always was and always will be!