When your heart starts to internalize.

When you make up your mind to please only One,

you can wear navy blue with black. You can sit down where ever you like. You can stop in the middle of the sidewalk and watch the sky for awhile. You can stand in one place and eat your apple, or stand in one place just to stand there. You can spin when the urge strikes you, and giggle at the wind. You can snort and cry when you laugh, if you like. You can take your time in the sandwich line and at airport security. You can drink tap water and reuse plastic bottles too many times. You can smile at random strangers (but if you're a girl, only when you're in America). You can admit that you like the morning. You can be genuinely friendly to everyone, everywhere.

You don't have to be afraid of what people think of how you dance. Of how your hair looks or if your shoes go with your pants. You don't have to be ashamed of eating dinner alone or in silence.

You needn't be annoyed when it rains or someone jostles you in line, when your paper or poem isn't good enough, or when you screw up a question, or when people ask you questions you just can't answer- whether it be because you don't know the answer or the person well enough.

You needn't be discouraged about having too much homework or worry about how you're gonna do all that and sleep too.

When you make up your mind to please only One, the little things start to change. And it's the little things that change your life the most. I think. At least for now. :)

girl?

a "harmless" facebook note.

[] You own over 10 bottles of nail polish

[] You own a designer purse

[] You own perfume that cost over $60

[] You had/have fake nails

[] You have more body lotions/hair products than you use

[] Your pet is a chihuahua/Pomeranian/Yorkshire Terrier/Siamese/Shih Tzu/dachshund

[] You have clothes/shoes/accessories for your pet

[] You have enough clothes to cover an entire refugee camp.

[] You have enough pictures to create your own wallpaper.

Your pet is a small dog? Really?

So in order to be a real girl you must be very materialistic. The only one of these that fits me is having more hair products than I use. And right now that is because I have some back up shampoo in my room.

ADORE:

[] Makeup

[] Glitter

[] The Color Pink

[] Jewelry

[ ] Mirrors

[] Chick flicks

[ ] Shoes

[] Rainbows

[ ] Unicorns

[] Disney Movies

[] Candles

[] Flowers

[] Stuffed Animals

[] Purses

rainbows and unicorns? MIRRORS? I know no girls who adore mirrors. I adore trees and hills and paths in the woods and snow and a good strong pair of galoshes.

DO YOU SHOP AT:

[] Coach

[] Forever 21

[] Victoria's Secret

[ ] Guess

[] Claires/Icing

[] Express

[] Delias

[] Hollister

[] American Eagle

[] Abercrombie & Fitch

[] Aeropostale

...I shop at Kohl's, and JC Penny's, and the family shop under my church.

DO YOU SAY:

[] Whatever

[] (colour) is the new (colour)

[] Oh my gosh/goodness/god

[] Huh

[] Fugly

[] That's hot

[] Dunzo

[] Darlin

[] Pshh

[] Cutie

[] Hottie

[] Skank

[] Totally

[] For Sure

[] Fabulous

Psshh this is so silly. Darlin, if I don't call you a cutie or a hottie or whatever a dunzo is, I'm totally not a girl? Huh. That's just Fabulous.

DO YOU READ:

[] Cosmopolitan

[] Glamour

[] Marie Claire

[] Elle Girl

[] Teen Vogue

[] People

[] Us Weekly

[] Star

[] Self

[] PerezHilton.com

[] Dlisted.com

[] 17online.com

[] people.com

[] usmagazine.com

[] popsugar.com

[] Pink Is The New Blog.com

No indeed I do NOT read any of these.

DO YOU LOVE THESE:

[] Legally Blonde

[] Elizabethtown

[] Mean Girls

[] 10 Things I Hate About You

[] A Walk to Remember

[] Sweet Home Alabama

[] Where the Heart is

[] Just My Luck

[] John Tucker Must Die

[] Centerstage

[] Bring it On

[] How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

[] Mona Lisa Smile

[] My Girl

Pride and Prejudice anyone? about two very real and flawed people? anyone? Some of those are good, yeah, but I wouldn't say I love them.

DO YOU REALLY ENJOY...

[] America's Next Top Model

[] Project Runway

[] Desperate Housewives

[] The Simple Life

[] 8th & Ocean

[] Sex & the City

[] Grey's Anatomy

[] The O.C.

[] Laguna Beach/The Hills

[] Nip/Tuck

[] Gilmore Girls

[] Degrassi

Have never heard of most of those. and the ones I have heard of... no.

Now multiply the total by 2.

Repost as I am __% Girl

Is THIS what our culture finds feminine? Obviously, this note has no idea what being a girl is. Harmless, of course, but what about when we start believing it's all harmless, darlin?

You know what's fun about being single and not looking?

You can be genuinely friendly with everyone.

You know what's fun about only trying to please One?

You can wear navy blue and black,

you can giggle at the wind.

You can talk outloud while you're walking alone.

You can smile at nothingness.

You can ask your group member if he really cares that much about what your professor wears. (He'll say he does, and look at you like you're crazy, but he just might shut up about it!)

You can spin around in circles whenever you want. :)

Have a nice day!

This is hard to read on this background. I'll change it. I was just thinking how my blog is really serious and not so much fun lately. So I wanted at least a fun background. I don't like the transparency, so I'm working on it. :D

I'm so tired of people saying things like, "let me pray real quick." and, "for the sake of time we'll just pray real fast..."

REALLY?!

For the sake of TIME we're going to skip out on talking to the Creator of the universe who loves us and wants to talk with us?!

REALLY?!

I think everything else should "for the sake of time" to that.

He says he's a thug. He uses nasty words like it's his job. He brags that he has done laundry only two times in his life. He dresses like he gives no hoot for the world.

And he plays Pachelbel beautifully on the piano. Without being prompted. There are other things going on, nobody notices or gives him any attention for it. (I, in disbelief that it's him, wander in from the other room to make sure.)

This culture squashes us. Men aren't how they are meant to be and neither are women.

But we're in there somewhere.

Sorry buddy, if I didn't think you were thuggish before, I definitely don't think you are now. But you did gain yourself a lot of respect.

I always complain about how society objectifies women. But it does the same thing to men. It might not be as visible or as easy to catch. I hate it when guys discuss how girls look. But I do the same thing. It's disgusting.

I've been asking G to teach me how to see guys like He does. To see past what society says. To see past the stereotypes.

And wowo is he showing me!

I definitely can't play Pachelbel (or anything) that beautifully on piano.

a thought. glances.

Today I was sitting in my contemporary poetry class. I looked up from the notes I was taking and met the eyes of the guy sitting across from me. The room is set up so that there is a big open space in the middle and you can see the people across from you. I'm finding no words to describe this. Sorry. Anyway, I met the eyes of this guy, and immediately he looked away. Part of me thought to myself, "yeah that's right. look away." But then I was thinking about it, and I wonder, what is wrong with glances? I certainly glance at people in my classes from time to time, trying to make connections or wondering how bored they are, or just looking out of my curiosity. I sit in his line of vision, he sits in mine. It means nothing, they're just glances. Just watching, making connections, familiarities. It's true what they say, that you're always watched. It has nothing to do with you, really. You just happen to be there. You're something to see. You're human. Don't you do it too? Just glances, not deep or long stares. Those aren't cool, but I'm just talking a look here and there, to see how you're doing, what you're doing, who you are. I have no way to end this, it's just something I was thinking about today. So thanks random boy, for sitting in my line of vision today!

~P