thoughts, insights and rambles from a girl on a mission to change the world
The weight of the world was never meant to be carried on your shoulders alone. Even though you are strong enough to weather its toughest storms, this burden is to be shared. Because even the strongest of us will falter at times and in our failures, learn that we too need to be carried. And […]
My wish, for you… that you may experience the indescribable beauty that is pure happiness. The debilitating kind of happiness that stops you in your tracks and sends a shiver up your spine and makes all the pain and sadness and fear dissapear if only for a fleeting moment.
White skin Black skin Yellow skin Is there a difference? Brown eyes Blue eyes Green eyes Does one count for more than the other? Jewish Christian Muslim Who decided we could choose which is dominant? Male Female Transgender Is one given the right to judge? Gay Straight Bisexual When was one made more powerful than […]
In the age of college students building billion-dollar corporations from their dorm rooms, we have normalized this stigma that achieving magnificent success at a young age is what we all should work toward — and those that do achieve such success should be praised and idealized. We live in a society where we are at once expected to be […]
Three years ago today you left us. It was way too soon. You were forced out of our lives when none of us were the least bit ready. I’ll remember that day, that feeling, those words forever. “Abby died” my dad said. And in that moment, I thought my heart had been ripped out from […]
I’ve been sitting on these words for a while. A sense of urgency to get them out of my head, yet a hesitation stemming from the need to express them just right. So here we go… I grew up in small town USA. I have called both the north and the south home. I spent the […]
Let’s stop talking about size, and start talking about action. Don’t get me wrong, the size of the turnout we saw at the Women’s Marches across the WORLD this weekend was absolutely amazing. Being in the heart of it in DC was goose bump-inducing. I had never seen my city so full of love, and […]
I woke up numb today. Not sure of how to handle the pain. How? I kept asking myself. I got dressed, got on the train, and went to work. And on my way there I began to feel. There was this eeriness present. I tried to read the faces of those around me, searching for […]
And her heart beat for the world She felt the pain of each struggling soul Her hands ached to heal every undeserved wound She loved and loved and loved and at times she felt that was all she had to give, never feeling like it was enough She lived outside of herself With a stinging […]
I’m an introvert. I never wanted to be, and I think that’s why it’s taken me so long to really accept that part of myself. Only recently have I been able to accept this trait for what it is. Growing up, I wanted to be loud. I wanted to be that person that walked into […]
Evan Petschke 