Letting you back in!

Letting someone back in can be hard, but hitting the refresh button can be one of the easiest techniques used to open back up. Wanting for that relief to come can cause more pain, but once that hurt is gone nothing is blocking your view. Nothing and on one can stop you! When you are open to letting someone back in you have to allow them full access and be sure and hit the refresh button no matter how difficult it may be. You control your feelings and who you let in, no body else, only you! So take a stand, speak the truth to everyone you know, be kind, and open your heart to a cool new fresh start.

Do I Live Purposefully?

I think life has as much purpose as you make it have. It really all depends on what you think has purpose. I think making it through each day with family and friends and living each day to its fullest serves every day you live to have purpose. Every day I wake up thinking today is a new day, meet new people, try new things, and make this the best day ever. Even when a day goes wrong it's like I can't wait to go to bed and make the next day better than the one before. So living your life to its fullest is in your hands, how you see what serves purpose to you may differ from what I see purposeful. Even so every living thing serves a purpose; A tree giving us humans oxygen and us humans plant even more trees to keep living. Everything does something to serve purpose not only to their own life but other people's lives as well.

IB Art

Over the past four years of high school my artistic abilities have expanded far beyond my imagination. Taking IB Art this year has helped me to perfect my art style but influenced me to future my art career. Taking on option b was a tough decision for me and my art teacher but after a couple projects we found option be to be my best choice. With being graded heavily on my notebook I was focusing more time on my notebook than my actual projects. Always pressing for time to achieve my final artworks and always concerned about every last detail made for a challenging class. Using my technique in photography and my ability to think outside the box took functioning pieces and I turned them into functioning art. Using my general ideas and building from that as I'm influenced by the things I see around me. My theme being nature made for an array of my artistic skills to shine through not only my artwork but also my notebook. Treating my notebook as my own personal diary and filling the pages with my words of frustration, happiness, sadness, and resources makes it hard to turn them loose. Taking what I have learned about myself through to my artwork has made for three full books displaying my skills, concerns, purposes, sources, techniques, process, influences, media achievements, and my overall focus.

Big Green Booger

My first driving lesson was in the Apollo parking lot with my mom in the "Big Green Booger." The Big Green Booger referring to the van because it is huge, boxy, and green. Back to driving now; so first off I had to move the seat like all the way up to the steering wheel and even then that wasn't good enough. I then proceeded to have to put a first aid kit under my butt just so I could see over the dash board. By the way I was about to turn 16 when I had this first driving experience. So being 15 1/2 in the Big Green Booger with my mom in the school parking lot of AHS was quite an experience. Now that I was all adjusted it was time to get the car started and put the pedal to the metal and that literally is what I did. The car started and when I got it into drive the car jumped forward and I was off to the races. Remember now I was in an empty parking lot, meaning there were no cars but that didn't mean there were no poles. So you can guess what happens next? Did you think I crashed? No, I didn't crash, I whipped the van around the pole in a donut nearly tipping it over. After that was all said and done my mom never let me drive again until after I got my permit. And still to this day my driving skills aren't the best! LOL

Trading lives

if i could trade my life with someone, it would have to be my grandma! she is an amazing character who is full of life even all the way up into her 80's. she never stops living for the moment and believes in second chances, true loves, and a good time all the time. she has her rough days, just like anyone, were all she thinks about are the people she's lost that are so dear to her, but then she remembers all the great people shes met throughout the years that still surround her with the presence of their beauty. she has amazing stories to tell and much wisdom behind her years, this wisdom in-which she tries to pass down to me and my sisters everyday. she helps us with sticky situations weather it be boys, money, or morality.
for years past i feel like i have just take my grandma for granite, but these days every moment spent with her feels like a new memory for cherish because who knows when her last memory with me will be. my grandma inspires me to be the best person i can be and live each moment to the fullest never letting anyone or anything stand in my way. she had taught me to be strong, independent, loving to all things good or bad, and most of all to cherish every memory because one day they will be the things that keep you around.
she tells me god has a purpose for everyone and everything he does you may not understand his reasoning now but one day that door that he closed for you will only lead to you opening anew door to discover new things, weather that be love, money, or just more precious people awaiting your presence.
if a woman can be in her 80's and still have the courage to live on her own, take care of her own home/farm, drive, cook and have an excellent memory never forgetting a holiday or birthday that seems like a good person to learn from and even trade a day in time with.

St. Patty's Day

St. Patty's
Day

Green Leprechauns with pointy ears
The sounds of coins is what one hears
Rainbows are the secret to the gold
So with some luck they will unfold
Coins of many shapes and colors
Found because of Leprechauns lovers
Rainbow colors shouting towards le fin
Show the luck of the Irish in a bin
Four leaf clovers
And green ice cream from Culvers
Making for a beer goggle night
Bringing forth lots of Irish pub fights
And the knocking out of lights
On the joys of being and Irish Leprechaun
Never strays to far from being gone

PURPOSE

Keeping a strong state of
mind and being so determined can sometimes make my life stressful. Without the
gratification of completing something my life would consist of very little free
time to just relax. Having to make appointments and lists makes for a full day
but with a full day come purpose to life rather than doing nothing all day long.
Being productive feels good at the end of the day, but having some ME time
is what I really need. So from this point forward I'm going to take it day by
day, get as much done as I can but still make time for ME time. With that ME
time there will be less stress all the time and more time to do what I want
rather than just what I need to do.