Ideas and Activism

Imagine it: An organization that houses the homeless, puts them through a job-training course and finds them work. Or, in another universe, an organization geared towards helping kids find their passion - something to keep them away from alcohol and drugs and other things that they often do in fits of boredom or when they reach low points. These are my dreams; my causes that I am passionate about. And I have many others, but I feel like my organization could contribute much to these particular issues.

Musicals and Why I Love Them

So, everyone has something they absolutely love. And more often than not, this love is ridiculed by many of any one person's peers. My laughable love is for musicals.

Long and Boring Post about My Life

I have decided to give a post with some insight into who I am. Surely, after many more posts, that image would come together naturally, but I like efficiency. (And let's be honest - I like talking about myself.)

Self-Improvement and Deduction

Recently, I have decided that my goal for self-improvement is to work on things that I have always been bad at/never thought I could do. That is the thinking that spurred my endeavors into art, and look at how well that has turned out for me!

Philosophy in the Morning Pt. 1: Home

You often hear the phrase, "There's no place like home", but I don't know exactly how I feel about that. In the most literal sense, it's very true - no other place recreates the one that I call "home". But in another sense, what does this even mean by the word? Home generally refers to a place of residence, but my home is much more than that. It is an embodiment of my family and music and memories. In that respect, I both love home and want to get away from it.
Home is a wonderful place for me, for many others, it isn't. However, my entire life was spent at home, and to me, there's no place like the rest of the world. My home is adventure - seeing new things and trying new experiences. Going around the world, changing lives and creating a better person within me.
And in a totally different direction, my home is with people I truly love and who love me back. ASMSA is home because John and some of my best friends are there.
Conference is home because I love all those people immensely and would give anything to have more than one last year to spend with them.
My home isn't confined to one single area, then. It is across the state - the country, even. And not the state or the country itself, but rather some of the places and people in it.

So that phrase doesn't mean a whole lot to me, because my home is wherever I go and whoever I meet that I fall in love with. My home is comprised of oceans, mountains, and deserts. My home is comprised of Americans, Canadians, Asians, and more. My home is both on the ground and in the sky. My home is in this world and fictional ones. My home is me, and my home is everything I love.

So maybe, there IS no place like home. But at the same time, when home consists of so much, what isn't home?