thoughts, insights and rambles from a girl on a mission to change the world
2017 has been, simultaneously, one of the best and worst years of my life. I have not had many words this year to describe all of my many feelings. While I have continued to write and share, there are so many more thoughts bottled up, compiling in my head, that I cannot seem to get […]
I felt the seasons start to change today. From warm to cold, from sun to clouds. I stepped outside to find leaves crunched beneath my feet. And I thought, how magnificent it is that the world knows just when to go from blue to grey, from green to orange. And that despite our human efforts […]
When you find yourself in a place of light, know that you are allowed to be there, to feel happiness. But don’t forget to cherish that feeling and to bottle it up for when darkness hits. Because light and dark come and go, in their own beauty, with their own purpose. Each teaching us to […]
Is there meant to be more to life than this? I’ve always burdened myself with the thought that my purpose should be to serve others… But each day a new challenge appears, a new endeavor fails, and the problems consume me. I keep looking at the bigger picture thinking, somewhere here I’ll make a difference. […]
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.
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 