songs about rain

"Some quick lessons: Don't let "those who have power" intimidate you. No matter how much power they have, they cannot prevent you from living your life, thinking independently, speaking your mind.
Find people to be with you who share your values and commitments, and who also have a sense of humor."

"Note that throughout history people have felt powerless before authority, but that at certain times these powerless people, by organizing, acting, risking, persisting, have created enough power to change the world around them, even if a little."

"Don't look for a moment of total triumph. See engagement as an ongoing struggle, with victories and defeats, but in the long run slow progress. So you need patience and persistence. Understand that even when you don't "win," there is fun and fulfillment in the fact that you have been involved, with other good people, in something worthwhile. You need hope."

"Is an optimist necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time? I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that only confidence can prevent people from giving up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world."

dreher

trust fall

Its strange to me that something so beautiful and so fragile is inextricably tied to fear...that the feeling that is supposed to be so incredible cannot be separated from the worry that it might end. Maybe that's what makes it so coveted and so special - that you never know what could happen, that all you'll ever have to hold onto is that in that day, in that moment, it exists and it is wonderful.

I won't ever know how others leave it behind, or if they do at all. I won't ever know what it's like to think any more or any less, or to feel any more or any less. I'll never know what it felt like or what it sounds like or looks like or tastes like for anyone else.

It sounds a little childish at first - that red doesn't look the same for anyone else. But love seems so all encompassing sometimes, I wish someone could let me know what I'm doing right and wrong. I don't know why it's so hard to simply trust myself - the more I care, the more I think about my fears and how much it could hurt.

It's never seemed more worth it - I'm slowly letting go. It'll be easy someday, I promise.

Wide Open Spaces

"And finally, I leave you a responsibility to our young people. The world around us really belongs to youth for youth will take over its future management. Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world. They must not be discouraged from aspiring toward greatness, for they are to be the leaders of tomorrow. Nor must they forget that the masses of our people are still underprivileged, ill-housed, impoverished and victimized by discrimination. We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends."

Thank you for always reminding me, and for never letting me slip away.

cuba

sometimes I wonder if I tell myself that little things can change the world because the big things are so unattainable.

but sometimes I wonder if the big things really have any impact at all compared to feelings of compassion, love, and trust that are shared between individuals.

for all the work I put into being put together, sometimes I feel like I'm just floating further and further out into the water...I'm privileged to have such a beautiful view.

Walls

"Just when you think that love will never find you, you run away but then it's right behind you...

Scared of love but scared of life alone."

Overachieving and under accomplished. I know why I'm never good enough...but I'll never tell.

"love from one side hurts, but love from two sides heals"

apologies

I don't want to be vulnerable...not even with you.