Charlie Finds a Peanut Butter Jar

Mom likes to give my dog, Dosie, empty jars of

peanut butter despite me telling her not to. This time her sweet, innocent, little Charlie got to it. I found this guy with his head stuck in the jar and instead of helping him get his head out, I ran upstairs and got my camera. Ha!

I was bored and had a remote control car...

Another moment in my life when studying Epidemiology just wasn't as fun as tormenting Charlie.

Putting it out in the world and see what comes back

I was sitting in my room looking at itunes and I was struck by this random and yet profound avalanche of thoughts. I know that the thoughts were mostly for me, but I felt that if I let it drift out to the world that perhaps it increase the hope factor in a messed up world. Who knows. I hope this helps more than me...

It’s Time to Heal.

The world isn’t fair. What goes up doesn’t stay up and what comes down will smack you in the head. You can decide to keep fighting against that law or accept it and make a game out of throwing something up and catching it when it comes down.

When you let the future just come to you instead of taking ownership in your path in life you are just floating by everyday instead of living it. By doing this you’ve lost hope in the future. You can’t envision yourself in your own future. You’ve lost the vision because you’ve lost yourself.

It’s not important to figure out which came first the injury or the hurt. The point is, if you work on either you are working on both. But it is important to realize that the cause of the injury and the hurt must be resolved completely, honestly and thoroughly or they will come back. And it’s not cheating to get help to resolve the cause, it’s just smart.

First, take responsibility for being in the hole; you walked into it, no one pushed you there. Don’t blame others NO MATTER how tempting it is.
Second, work on getting to the point where the pain isn’t constant; to the place where you can peer outside of the hole you’ve gotten yourself into.
Third, realize that being in the hole or out of it is your decision. If you don’t want out as badly as wanting to breathe; you’re not ready to get out of the hole.
Fourth, realize that there will be days that that hole will feel more tolerable than being outside in the world and that’s another reason you need to drag yourself out of that damn hole.

The law that you must chisel in the heart and mind of your being is this:
A positive excitement in your ability to own your future will allow you to use the tools that will build that future!

And that's pretty much it folks. I'm not sure if it even makes any sense, but there you go. Happy Easter and slip some hope out to the world anyway you can