Everything's Coming Up Amanda!: April 2008

15 April 2008

Bicycle Bicycle Bicycle I Want to Ride My Bicycle Bicycle Bicycle

The Mariokart has finally given up the ghost and I have replaced it with a sweet new bicycle with a totally cool basket. I don't know how to post pictures or I'd post one for you (Lola, help?). I am really shocked by how much I love riding my bike. We all know I am not one of the most physically conditioned people around, but I am already getting better. I have ridden 2-4 miles every day since I purchased it on Friday, and i am really loving it. I am starting to understand all those exercise endorphines that everyone talks about. I figured having to ride it to work where I wait tables for 8-12 hours a day and then riding home I would be beat, but I must admit I feel awesome. I am all high on life. I also get the added satisfaction of knowing I am sticking it to the oil tycoons and doing Mother Nature a solid.

PS Moab is awesome. You should all come visit me.

01 April 2008

Just to Reach You

So, I have had a really funky day today. Spring isn't that great of a time for me. I have a lot of tough anniversaries coming up over the next couple months starting with one yesterday, and I'm kind of at a loss for how to deal right now and I don't know really how to put words to what I'm feeling so, I'll let Melissa do it for me.

Come to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light
of the moon
Come to my window
I'll be home soon
I would dial the numbers
Just to listen to your breath
I would stand inside my hell
And hold the hand of death
You don't know how far I'd go
To ease this precious ache
You don't know how much I'd give
Or how much I can take
Just to reach you
Just to reach you
Just to reach you
Come to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light
of the moon
Come to my window
I'll be home soon
Keeping my eyes open
I cannot afford to sleep
Giving away promises
I know that I can't keep
Nothing fills the blackness
That has seeped into my chest
I need you in my blood
I am forsaking all the rest
Just to reach youJust to reach you
Oh to reach you
Come to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light
of the moon
Come to my window
I'll be home soon
I don't care what they think
I don't care what they say
What do they know about this
love anywayCome to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light of the moon
Come to my window
I'll be home soon

Wisdoms From Ones Far Greater Than I

"A time Comes when silence is betrayal. Men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. For we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness so close around us... We are all called upon to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation, for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hand can make these humans any less our brothers." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., New York, 1967

"We can no longer afford to confuse peaceability with passivity. Authentic peace is no more passive than war. Like war, it calls for discipline and intelligence and strength of character, though it calls also for higher principles and aims. If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war." -Wendell Berry, A Citizen's Response to the National Security Strategy of the United States of America, 2003

“Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.”- Terry Tempest Williams

"What threatens us today is fear... Our danger is the forces in the world today which are trying to use man's fear to rob him of his individuality, his soul, trying to reduce him to an unthinking mass of fear... This is what we must resist, if we are to change the world for man's peace and security... So never be afraid.Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you...will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth."-William Faulkner

"Our lives begin to end when we become silent about things that matter"- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote from the Open Space of Democracy

"What does the open space of democracy look like?
In the open space of democracy there is room for dissent.
In the open space of democracy there is room for differences.
In the open space of democracy, the health of the environment is seen as the wealth of our communities. We remember that our character has been shaped by the diversity of America’s landscapes and it is precisely that character that will protect it. Cooperation is valued more than competition; prosperity becomes the caretaker of poverty. The humanities are not peripheral, but the very art of what it means to be human.
In the open space of democracy, beauty is not optional, but essential to our survival as a species. And technology is not rendered at the expense of life, but developed out of a reverence for life.
Reverence for life.
The open space of democracy is a landscape that encourages diversity and discourages conformity." -Terry Tempest Williams

Everything's Coming Up Amanda!

15 April 2008

Bicycle Bicycle Bicycle I Want to Ride My Bicycle Bicycle Bicycle

01 April 2008

Just to Reach You

Sweet Tunes

What is an Amanda Jean?

Multi Media Madness

As Seen on Blog

Honest to Blog

Wisdoms From Ones Far Greater Than I

Quote from the Open Space of Democracy