oo-wee-oo, I look just like Buddy Holly

I'm trying something new today.

Smile at everybody. The worst they can do is not smile back, but for real, who frowns when they're smiled at?

Surround yourself with things and people that make you happy. If something in your life brings you down, shake it off and out of your life.

Talk to strangers, be friendly with acquaintances. Kindness goes farther than you'd think.

There is nothing in the world that Love can't reverse.

everything will probably not be okay.

everything is illuminated.

All people are beautiful.

There's so much more to us.

If not you, then who?

Go for the soul.

We are dynamic individuals, we are unique.

Don't hide who you are.

Nobody is invisible.

You should be proud of who you are.

Thank you for being authentic.

Things are gonna get hard.

We are people from all walks of life.

You don't have to mask when you come home.

There is nothing that loving and caring for people can't reverse.

You Will Find Love.

Morning is such a beautiful time of day, and place, and feeling, and state of mind, and character. I should not sleep through it so often.

Moonlight will fall,

Winter will end.

Harvest will come,

Your heart will mend.

Goodmorning, goodmorning.

You will find love.

Goodmorning.

There's a Double Rainbow in My Backyard.

Apparently, I have a well of expression that I've been sleeping through in the early mornings. I've discovered a bit of creativity that rises with the sun, and I think I'm going to give my inner nocturnal creature a break and start some new habits, like rising with the sun and this intriguing newfound creativity. This might all just be a delusion I'm telling myself because I want to hear it, though, because I haven't slept yet tonight. Too much thinking, on my part, about the little trivial things, and not so much about the whole, that has kept me up tonight. Wide awake and staring at the glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling, I've given each synthetic constellation a name and an origin. Though they are synthetic, they pierce through the night in my room much like the real sky of stars do outside, piercing through the darkness of the night. The sun came up this morning and I watched it turn sections of my room a golden orange color through my window. I saw the shadow of the tree outside move across a wall and the creative juices started flowing, and I felt okay for the first time all night.

Very Much.

i hope you know you're not the only one who feels the way you feel. You are not the only one who struggles. You are not the only one with questions. You are not crazy. You deserve to be heard, to be known. You deserve love.

You deserve love.

You deserve a place that feels like home. You deserve some hands to hold. Hands to pull you past the broken moments, hands to catch you when you fall. Eyes to see you. To say you're there, that you exist, that you change a room, that your presence is significant. Ears to hear you - hear your stories, hear you laugh. Ears to hear your questions and to say they matter.

Your questions matter.

Maybe call a friend today or invite someone to coffee. Tell someone they matter or tell someone you could use a conversation. Write a letter or ask someone how they're doing. Like a song too much. Feel the drums or get lost in the chorus. It means that you're alive.

It's good that you're alive. Who else could play your part?

i hope you get to a place, wake to a day, where that feels true. You deserve to know it's true.

To Write Love on Her Arms is a community of people with questions and struggles. It is for broken people and it is led by broken people. Life is heavy and light. Life is both. Beauty and pain, aches and dreams... We are saying that it's okay to talk about those things. We are saying that we need to. We are choosing to believe that stories deserve better endings. That hope is real, that help is real, that people need other people.

You are not alone today. You matter very much.

Peace to you.

TWLOHA

times is hard, and things are a'changing.

Look. I know you probably don't want anything to do with me for a while, or ever. I know the way I reacted to you was immature and rude. I wish you'd even just acknowledge my apology. You don't have to accept it, I know, I just want you to acknowledge that I know I messed up and I wish I could take it back. I didn't mean to push you, I didn't mean to come on too strong, I didn't mean to scare you. I just got so excited that there was finally somebody else who gets it in my life, and I didn't control that excitement very well. I've said a lot of things I haven't meant, I've messed up a lot, I've been really frustrated trying to say things the right way because I don't want to mess up anymore. I know you need space and I know you have all these things you want to do for yourself, by yourself, on your own, and I don't want to be in your way. And I know you won't let me get in your way. I really, really would like you to be in my life, because you've colored me in so many new shades just within this short time. If that's even remotely related to anything in your head, I'd like to try again. I know a person only gets so many chances.