Photohunt + Captions + Hashtags

This is someone who makes me laugh and smile. She is my bestfriend and it is super easy to laugh at her when she does things like this... get gum stuck in her hair. #ImTheSmarterFriend

This is someone has helped me more than anyone. My grandpa does anything in his power to help me and I know I can always count on him. #HesNotAPicturePerson

Someone I would like to be more like is my grandma. She is the strongest person I know, after everything she has been through she still holds her head high. #ThoseWereSomeGoodDonuts

Looking for Alaska is an important book to me, it was one of the first serious books I have ever read and the story behind it is deep. #ItMadeMeCry

This isn't technically square but it is in the same family. FRIENDS is my all time favorite TV series and it is definitely worth mentioning.

This to me is an interesting angle because it captured this goat at the perfect time, plus the picture makes me laugh every time. #LooksLikeHeIsSmoking

This picture of nature is one of my favorites. I took this on a walk with my family behind Rutledge Wilson farm. #PrettyPrettyPicture

This ukulele brings back a lot of memories from when I lived in Texas. My bestfriend back there gave me my first one and she used to make fun of me when I would try to play it. #ISuckAtIt

Something I find beautiful is this balloon, it is tied to a tree and surrounded by thorn covered branches. It continues to fly around without getting popped and I just don't know how. #Confused

Something that will always remind me of KHS is my yearbook, pretty obvious why. #UglyPicturesInThere

This Is...

These are my grandparents,

Holding each other 

Like they have no cares in the world.

This is 34 years of marriage.

34 years that have felt like a life time

But have a life time to go.

This is before the seven heart attacks.

Before the traveling was forced to stop,

The smiles you see started to turn down.

This is two people that thought they knew everything about each other

But they didn't know this.

This is moment shared between two people in love.

Two people who never saw what would happen next.

Flea Market Photos

This is a photo of Jane and her two friends; Ann and Susan. It's Jane's birthday so the girls are going on a trip, but just before they stopped for a picture. Jane isn't shy at all so she wasn't afraid to stop and ask a women to take their picture. They all made sure to get posed just right on the car, "look cute, this one we will show to the boys!" Ann shouted. Ann was the flirt of the group, and Susan well she was just along for a good time. They were the oldest of friends and they did everything together, so it made sense for them to celebrate Jane's birthday. They all met through work, waitressing. But that was old news for them, they all quit and decided to try acting. Nothing to worry about of them, they all could fall back on their trust-funds, they only worked to prove their dads wrong. This was a day they had planned right when they woke up. It wasn't even that planned, they just had a destination and were gonna see what happened along the way.

Photos of the Millenniums

I chose this picture for many different reasons, one of them being the range of emotions it gives me. This picture makes me sad, grateful, excited and heartbroken at the same time. The things the people in this picture have to go through is something I myself or anyone I know will never even worry about. We live day to day worrying about things these people would kill to even think about. What color shoes are we going to buy? What kind of new phone we want, or even why are boyfriends aren't texting us back. It saddens me that we are so unappreciative for the things we get and have the privilege to do. We get to go home at night and sleep in a comfortable bed with a roof over our heads. But not before we eat a dinner with the ability to get seconds. These people are worrying whether they are going to live to see the next day or not. Food to them isn't an every day thing, they take what they can get and they can't get a lot. Looking at this shocks me at how good I have things. It leaves me grateful and excited at the same time that I get to live a life so good. It really puts a lot of things into perspective, makes things seem a lot better. Life is as good as you make it, we have the opportunity to make it good.

I Don't Know Why...

I don't know why people do the things they do
I don't know why the things that happen to people happen the way they do
People say and do things to others to hurt them, and I don't know why
The people around you get sick and sometimes die, but who knows why
There are people sleeping under bridges with no where to go, they don't know why
People are killing other people without a reason why
I don't know why hate is such a common thing today
I don't know a lot of things
And there are some things I will never know

Writer's Dreaming

Maya Angelou has written a lot of inspirational things. In her autobiography ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’, she talks a lot about what birds really mean when they sing in their cages. Maya states that she thinks birds singing is actually them screaming for freedom. They are trapped in cages, when they are supposed to be out flying. No one likes to feel trapped, and we are taking winged animals meant to soar and keeping them in a closed contraption. I agree with what Maya says because I think they want to be free. Their singing is their way of yelling for us to let them out. If we were the ones trapped, kept from walking around, we wouldn’t like it either. Maya took something true and made it relatable and foreshadow something we all can understand.

Another thing Maya states is when someone thinks or talks about bad dreams it gives them more power. I completely agree with this theory, it is very logical and understandable. When you continue to talk about something, the topic stays relevant and makes it easier for the “bad” to continue. It is the same way when people carry on dramatic situations. High school is the place where drama lives and breathes. Teenagers gossip and spread rumors, adding more fuel to the drama fire. If we were to drop them right away and not pass it along it would die and not gain more power. I have seen this first hand being in high school myself. One of my best friends had a rumor spread about her, and instead of everyone choosing to not believe it and drop it they continued to spread it. After a couple of weeks the rumor had not only spread over the whole school but it had been told so many times there were about ten different stories floating around the gossip train. Bad dreams are just like drama, no one wants them and they need to be dropped.

Maya Angelou went through a traumatic experience when she was seven years old. Until she reached the age of twelve, she was mute. Maya looked to silence as a way of coping with what happened to her. I myself have never been through anything near what Maya went through, so I of course have no place making an assumption of what I would do in her situation. I know that I personally am a huge talker, it is very hard to go even a day without talking. I just feel that life should be filled with words, they are how we connect with other people. Who actually knows what I would do, something like what happened to Maya changes people, but I think it would be very hard for me to actually stop talking, especially for five years. I love talking, doesn’t matter the situation. I could talk in front of any amount of people, about anything, for any amount of time. It is sometimes a problem, talking too much, but that never seems to stop me.

As I lay there restless under a heap of blankets, my mind wanders helplessly.
When I fall asleep I have a dream that leaves an impression on me, but I don't know why.
I wake up to my two little kids jumping in bed with me and my husband. We resist waking up for a little bit, but eventually give in. My husband rolls over and says he'll make breakfast. The kids run off yelling with joy following their dad. I watch them run off as I roll back over for a little more rest. Being off work for the day, I had nothing to worry about, and just when I'm dozing off to to that thought, I am woken up again. This time is was to the sound of them laughing in the kitchen. Having my family, the three most important people in my life; happy. That is when I realized I was content with my life and I wouldn't change anything. I loved my family, I had finally lived out my dream of becoming a lawyer, and I was comfortable in life. As I sat there, listening to it, I realized that was my favorite sound in the world.
That dream was one I didn't want to wake up from, I was happy being asleep.
They're the kind of dreams that take a little piece of your soul every time you close your eyes.

Dream Marks on My Pillow

Getting a good nights sleep is hard. First there is the struggle of getting into bed at the right time. Get everything you need done for the day, done by that certain hour. Then once your'e finally in bed, can you fall asleep? You can be extremely tired and still not be able to fall asleep, too much on your mind, not the right environment, so many factors. Some people need a quiet, pitch black room. While others need sound, maybe a little light. Once you finally get the room the perfect volume and lighting you just can't seem to turn your brain off. What all happened today? What do I need to do tomorrow? What could I wear, well that depends on the temperature. A million things racing through your mind, none even important at the moment. How does someone fall asleep so easily, how do you turn off your mind, get to bed on time? Another sleepless night will be another lesson learned.

If I Were in Charge of the World

If I were in charge of the world I'd cancel heels, dark circles, and also math classes. 

If I were in charge of the world there's be longer nights, happier people, and cheaper clothes.

If I were in charge of the world you wouldn't have sadness. You wouldn't have stress. You wouldn't have sleepless nights. Or "Be home by curfew." You wouldn't even have curfews.

If I were in charge of the world a cheesecake would be a vegetable. All continuous, annoying sounds wouldn't exist. And a person who sometimes forgot to match or sometimes forgot to do their homework would sill be allowed to be in charge of the world.

Narrative

Reflective Pool of Life

Some people knew

Even from the very beginning

What or who they wanted to be

But it wasn't that easy for everyone

Who are you? Who will you be?

Questions that set up your life

Something that will reflect on you 

So look for the answer to your question

Free Verse

We swim in the DEEP BLUE OCEAN
Like a group of FEDERATED BLUE
Because we can't FORE AND AFT
All for the point, the PURSUIT OF TEAL

Acrostic

S:he walks across the sand for what felt like

E:ternity

A:and as the day grew longer

S:he noticed

P:eople all around and when she

R:ealized she wasn’t

A:lone she felt herself

Y:earning for someone

S:o many people are

O:pen about how they’re

F:eeling, but even the

T:hought of opening up scared the

M:an, more than

E:ver for some reason

A:fter what happened, after that one

D:ay it became

O:bvious he might be
W:aiting for something that’ll never come

Haikus

Behind Blue Eyes

There was something there
Drawing everything deeper
Behind her blue eyes


Tranquil Vibe

A calm tranquil vibe
Consumes everything around
Relaxation takes over

Moonlit Path

There he was waiting
Admiring how she looked
On the moonlit path