Enjoy the view

Long time, no blog! Here are the pictures I promised a long time ago from NY. They capture the long and tedious flight from Utah to NYC, and vice versa :) Enjoy!

Back to Utah!!

Redefining typical; The truth about normal

Ever hear someone complain about how they want to be normal? How they wish they could be the "typical person"? Well, the next time you do, make sure to reassure them that they are, in fact, not normal or typical. That is, unless they are a 28 year old Han Chinese man.... If that's the case, be sure give them an Oreo, a nice pat on the back, and congratulate them on being born awesome.

P.S. I will get pictures from NY up... eventually... possibly

New York City!!!

So... last Sunday I was bored and let everyone in my vicinity know about it by moaning and groaning,   because as Jane Austen wisely wrote, "Those who don't complain are never pitied." My mother loved hearing my lamenting so when I jokingly suggested that the cure to my vocal complaints would be a trip to NYC, I was stunned when she agreed. So on Monday morning we left for New York City.

I've been to NYC before-- two years ago-- and I felt like it hadn't changed at all. The city still reeked of smoke and the streets were full of flashes of yellow and black, the metal that makes up roadways of NY. But for all that, the city still has that same unnameable charm that draws thousands to it's streets with it's towering sky scrapers, fast paced vibe, unique culture, etc. 

We arrived at night and let me tell you the hotel was not the scene we were imagining. The fact that it was a "scene" was just hilarious. The lobby was super retro/modern. It was filled with club music, hot pink and purple lighting, intoxicated looking youth, and strange white furniture. My mom and I stood out so much that it was laughable. Seriously,  every time we went in there I would burst out laughing. It was pretty great. 

While there we went to the Metropolitan Museum for like 6 hours. It was pretty much the best 6 hours of my life!! Then later that night we saw WICKED. The play was amazing!!!!! Glinda was hilarious and our Alphaba was German but her accent never showed!

Wednesday we woke up a little late and spent the day shopping and at 3 o'clock we went to the airport to head home :)

In my next blog post I'll add Pictures ;)

Choices Part 1

Choices

The choices we make sometimes seem pointless and finite

But they are incredibly connected to an infinite number of possibilities

There is a wide world before us

Waiting to be explored

And touched

In ways we could never understand

Because we are all connected in such a way

That though we may not be seen

Or even heard

We are felt

We cause vibrations in the earth

That travel far distances to move someone else

Most of the time we never know

Because we are too involved in ourselves

To look outside the surface and into the core of the earth

Where a beating heart lies

All of our hearts

Affected by all of our choices

Every single one

And every beat tells us that we are alive

Which is the greatest and most courageous choice we make

And it tells us we are here

We make sound too great to be heard

And we matter

Because if one heart is lost in this universe

We all feel a pain that surpasses vibration and sound

We feel silence

And in silence there is no choice.

Written by Mary C.

Thai Health Promotion Foundation- Smoking Kid

Random video, I know. But it's so powerful. I don't smoke or drink and I try to limit my consumption of Cheese balls to four whenever I go to Tichonoes, but what i do... do is make mistakes. I'm pretty sure we all do. And sometimes we make them over and over again and somewhere in the back corners of our brain we know it's wrong. Whatever it is. But many times it stays in that back corner and doesn't come out until, in this case, it's reflected in the eyes of a child. We often analyse other people and memorize facts but we never incorporate it-- we never apply it to our lives and then we tell other's to apply it theirs.  So here's to practicing what you preach. And to not smoking. Don't smoke. Or eat more than four cheeseballs. They are delicious but fattening.

-Mary

The Most Astounding Fact - Neil deGrasse Tyson

I saw this video in Earth Science and thought it was pretty fascinating. It's Neil DeGrasse Tysan, a famous ... well, actually I have no idea what he is exactly, I just know that he's legit enough for a youtube video and that my 50 something professor has a huge crush on him. I just thought it was a cool concept that we are in a way, all made up of stars.

Song: To build a Home, Cinematic Orchestra

And I thought I'd throw in a poem from your's truly :)
We Are All Made Up Of Stars
We are all a part of the universe
Every last one
And every first one
All
Our atoms come from the stars
And unite us
But still we feel so alone
Even when we can see stars
Even when we can see people
Everywhere
But they are indifferent to us sometimes
And though the world—the universe
Is a vast and seemingly unreachable expanse
It can be reached
And you are not alone in it
- Mary