Tonight We Cry Together

Thank you, Mr. President.

There are no words to express the grief that our country feels today.  My heart goes out to the families and friends of the victims and to the survivors who now must overcome, I'm sure, a combination of survivor's guilt and the loss of their innocence.  Prayers can't bring twenty children and six adults back to life, but I'm praying anyway.  May God be with the families affected by this tragic and meaningless act of violence.  And as for the shooter.  I'll pray for him too: that his soul can be healed.  No one in their right mind would do such a thing - whatever was hurting that poor man so much that he acted out in violence and even took his own life...  well.  I'm including him in my prayers because there's nothing we can do to change what's happened.  God help us all.

12:12 12/12/2012

So do I get 12 wishes?  No.  How about 12 hopes.  Fine then.  Here's 12 awesome things about anything and everything.

1.  I love who I am and I'm always looking to grow as an individual.

2.  When I was little I invented (in my brain) a transport system that worked with magnets.

3.  Nearly every time I look up at the stars I think about the Doctor.

4.  I wish I could fly.

5.  No matter how much I complain about papers, I enjoy writing them, finishing them, turning them in, and crossing my fingers for a good grade.

6.  Sometimes I think I would give up several years of my life if I could eat pizza whenever I wanted without the pesky side-effects of a dairy and gluten allergy.  Then I reconsider.

7.  Every year on my birthday I think to myself,  "This year's wish ought to be a good one.  It'll come true within the year, I know it."  And by the next day I've already forgotten what I've wished for.  It's quite possible that every wish of mine has come true.  I'll never know.

8.  I love waking up and remembering my dreams.  It happens quite often.  I like it even better when the dream is so good that I feel the need to share it.

9.  This is fun.  I feel like I'm writing in my journal in the final moments before the New Year.

10.  Someday I will write something that will touch lives around the world.  My words will inspire others to greatness.

11.  I don't care how many people say that world peace is impossible.  Peace is always an option.  It starts inside each heart and blossoms from there.

12.  I will never stop believing in myself.


12:12.  I'm taking a deep breath and am happy to have fallen victim to a silly superstition about numbers and patterns.  Here's to being human.

Boil 'Em, Mash 'Em, Stick 'Em in a Stew

Potatoes!

That's right.  Mashed potatoes.

That's also how I've been approaching the homework assignments that have taken a back seat to "How I Learned to Drive"  I would say pun intended, but it happened by happy accident.  Drive has honestly been one of the best experiences of my life.  My fellow actors, our director and stage manager, assistant stage manager, run crew, tech crew - everyone was so wonderful.  It was such a pleasure to work with them all.  It was a fantastic show, really well written, designed fabulously, working alongside brilliant actors.... quite the experience.  I can't believe it's over.  I'm ready for my next project!  Well, actually I'd like a break first.  So here's to Drive.  Cheers.

 

We're pretty cool kids.

So when it's all said and done, I love the life I have.  And no matter how stressful, I know that it's worth it.  Not only do I have a story to tell, I have a story to create.  Each day that I'm not dead in the ground, I get to make my life.  And that's the most frightening thing there is.  But also the most exciting.

PS.  We got fifteen inches of snow.  No school was cancelled.  Oh Missouri, what would you ever do with fifteen inches of snow?  

See you next time, Riverside.  Midsummer Night's Dream.
Come at me, Shakespeare.
Opera first, of course.