Jack Johnson - Upside Down

You know you have done your job as a parent when your kids , at both 17 and 12.. Every time they hear this song, they immediately seek you out and hug you.  You know you have made a difference.

It takes Gumption.

Outside the box, it is a term that it is used so frequently and can mean so many different things. You can be thinking outside of the box, going above and beyond what normally is thought of for a situation and implementing that task, it can also be done with food, conversations, and friendships. The one thing most people do not do is LIVE OUTSIDE of the box. Living outside of that box that you have been put in, that has been built for you. The comfort of normal, the reality of what should be done and what is always supposed to be done. Living “outside” the box is where you find yourself, where you find your deepest laughter, your most powerful passion, your real thirst for life. You will always be in the box, but being able to live “outside” of it as well, now that takes gumption. Do you have gumption?

Stardust | Nat King Cole

Rain

The rain is like tear drops, falling down your face as you let go of all the emotions you have held onto for so many years. It is like a warm blanket that you curl up into when you need comfort. Rain holds romance in it's rhythmic drip onto the roofs , sliding down down the pane of glass just coaxing you to touch it.Rain is love and hate, pain and joy. It is every emotion you can ever posses.

Jack Johnson- Sitting, Waiting, Wishing

When is the past the past?

We all have different memories of the past. Some of us choose to remember the lighter moments, some of us the darker. In the end, we all remember a portion or some variation of what the truth of the past represents. Later on in life, some of us come to a cross-roads where we are able to revisit that past, to pave a new path from that era and we have to find the courage to eithe subcomb to the desire of finding ourselves in it or putting it away on the shelf to be the "past" again. The past is a unexplainable curse that holds us to ourselves, even if we have tried to come to terms with it. The past is like a carving knife, it may not define who you are but it sure as hell starts the grooves for the shape you become. The past will find you, it will ask you the question " is the past really the past" on several occasions. It is up to you to decide if you , when making those decisions, did I do because I needed to, wanted to, should have, or do I leap into " the past still isn't the past".

Joss Stone - Free Me

Yes, I can.  Free me.