First off, I owe credit on this video to a lot of people: Seth Adam Smith for showing me this video, the music credits go to Petri Alanko with Alan Wake, and the idea was from a comment on the the video which is no longer there (you know who you are). The reason I share…
Category: Inspiration
Keep Dancing
We waited anxiously behind the stage for the name “Nezhnost’” to be called. This was the name of our dance ensemble. “Nezhnost” means tenderness in Russian, reflective of the emotions we felt as we danced. Our ensemble had been recently formed and this was our very first performance. We heard the audience cheer and applaud…
January and the God of Beginnings
January. A new year and a time of new beginnings. Interestingly enough, do you know the meaning of the word “January”? The month of January was named in honor of Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and transitions. Janus is typically depicted as a two-faced god, with one face looking forward and the other face…
“Stop Staring and Start Learning”
With my first initial glimpse of Lizzie Velaquez I was intrigued to know her story. I wanted to know who she was, where she had come from, and what her journey had been. At the age of 23, cyber bullies deemed her as the ugliest woman in the world. Lizzie was born without adipose tissue…
The Gift of Choice
“At the center of our agency is the freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in.” (Neal A. Maxwell) At ANASAZI, where I work, one of the key tenants is the importance placed on what we call “the gift of choice”—or agency. It is something very unique in the social…
Life of Legacy
My grandma was the homecoming queen her senior year of high school. It is not surprising when you look at old pictures of her with her big, brown eyes, oval face, and curling chocolate locks. Still, as beautiful as she was, her kindness was probably the thing that won her the vote. You’ve heard the…
You Define You
My life is full of stories. Hilarious ones, embarrassing ones, traumatic ones, terrifying ones, enlightening ones–I’m pretty sure I have a story to share as an example of nearly every adjective the dictionary has to offer. And at 26 years old, I’m sure I have many, many more stories ahead of me. Is there any…
Standstill
I reached my hand into the bag, eyes closed, routing around, praying silently. Show me what I need to see. The small ivory stones tumbled around my fingers until I felt it. This is the one. I grasped a single rune from the sordid bunch and gingerly removed it, placing it flat in my hand….
Honesty
I never really understood the deep meaning of being honest until recently. We all know that being honest to people is good – that way we will never have to lie, then remember our lies, get things mixed up, maybe some day get caught, and make other people lose trust in us. In other words…