Revolution

With recent internal conflicts I have been facing... I am trying to figure out which "battles to fight". When do I speak up, and when do I sink into my seat and let the next blow come?
My Professor, who I appreciate and respect dearly said to me... "Like you know.. just remember the times in history when people did not speak up against the oppressive forces in power, and remember what happened. It is the times when people do speak up that make a difference and evoke change."

That being said, this poem has been stuck in my head on the drive home...

It's was written by Martin Niemöller

"First they came…"

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

one two three o clock

We never changed the wind.

Where The Darkness Meets the City and the Light.

Twenty. Twenty- One.



Unique, genuine and beautiful life mashed with vulnerability and creativity that bring tears to my eyes.

Oh how I love these beautiful nights. Quite-ness. Listening to the sound of the crickets out my window and the train passing by. I want to stop time..

I'll Never Forget.

September 11, 2011
10 years. I still believe there is not a city in the worlds that compares to that of the beautiful City of New York.

"Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.."

I come from a family where my belly has always been filled with great food and wonderful memories of Sunday dinner. I live in a country where I am able to decide what direction I would to take in my life and I live in state where gay- marriage is finally legal. My city is full with generous people donating and volunteering their time, even when times are hard financially. But I live in a time where domestic violence is on a rise, and countries are fighting over religious and economic dominance and people are getting killed everyday. The world might always be filled with disagreements and questionable actions but it will also be completed with well-hearted people who set up organisations protecting freedoms and lives of women, men, and children around the world.

I..

want more yoga in my life.

"Always Running Around”

-Grandpa Romeo




Uncertainty with the future: When i get that endless high and which provokes my mind to drift off into day dreams. When I decided to study in Ireland I remember that clearly. My heart was beating out of my chest for about three days before and I could not sleep at night for the life of me. I was on a constant adrenaline rush for about a month. The first run I went on was in the middle of September. It was the longest run I had ever gone on. My mind wondered off in thoughts as I was apprehensive about leaving the country, but more excited then I had ever been in my life. The leaves were just turning and the wind whistled under my nose. The morning was beautiful and unmatched to any description I could ever write.

I’m in love with with beautiful autumn days. I went down the same trails before I left, and they were the best mornings of my life.
In Ireland, the trails in the mornings and as the sun was just about setting were beautiful. I could not even describe the feeling I had when I ran there.
I can not think of a more beautiful place.

I love New York, but when I left Ireland, a part of me left with it.
I am not the same person that I was when I left.

“The world is your oyster..”

The Road Less Taken

- Robert Frost

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20