This song:

has been my theme the past few weeks. In the ways that I have overcome so much in my life. I want to shout-out to my sister, who has a marathon runner’s heart rate… without being a marathon runner! EEP! Much love to you, sis. You’re wonderful and inspire me everyday with all you’ve overcome and the work you’re doing at OSU Lima Branch! You fill me with overwhelming confidence in your ability to reach success in the manner you want to define it.

We move through our lives with great ease and haste to anger, but it is the moments we pause for, the intimate moments of our lives that we recognize, with great sighs of understanding that, in fact, “this too shall pass.”

I do not consider myself terribly close with my family for a wide variety of reasons; yet, in the conversations I have, I am reminded what family means. It is not blood, it is not relation, but rather connection. Family are the connections we make and sustain, through prejudice and understanding. I want nothing more than to say thank you to friends and blood relatives who make me feel whole. The urge to belong, not withstanding society’s unrealistic expectations, is by far one of the most imperative drives of human desires. Now to continue writing banality into pages of my journal, because I have nothing else left to do with my day. So, barista, I’ll take another coffee. As Joshua Beckman once wrote:

The world will let us down many times,
but it will never run out of coffee.