Day 16: On the Hour Photo Challenge

To take a picture Every Hour.  It does not have to make sense, but it has to be taken.  

The point of this is to..  Well maybe it is just for fun, but who doesn't like a little bit of fun?

One Photo Every Hour Between 9am & 9pmChallenge Excepted!!! 

9am; Getting out of bed was a struggle this morning!

10am

 

10am; Breakfast! The most important meal of the day.

 

11:00am Getting Ready

12:00pm Still not ready... Is this fine?

 

1:00pm Feeling fancy, at an art museum

2pm Anna

3pm Moose in the art museum

 

4pm Beautiful Day

 

6pm Tree

 

7pm Time to Exit the Building

9pm With the frozen weather outside a little fake fur doesn't hurt

Day 15: The Hero I Am (not)

The name Haliee means Hero.

When we think hero we think of Superman, Wonderwoman, Batman, Captain America or Catwomen.

Dictionary.com states that a hero is a person, typically a man, who is admired or idealized for, courage, outstanding achievements or noble qualities.

From a very young age I would associate myself with a hero.
I was a hero! Maybe not one in spandex and a cape but a hero none the less!

Recently I have been feeling like less then the hero I long to be.

Maybe heros have their bad days.
Bad weeks.
Bad months
Where they cannot fly.
Where instead of saving people they need to save themselves.

Day 14: Lychee

Kiersti, a friend that lives down the hall walked into my dorm room tonight with Lychee Juice in hand.  The last time I had tasted a lychee was over 10 years ago in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I was with my family on Grandville Island.  It was the end of the day and we were walking back to the car.  A venture gave us a Lychee gave me one, trying to get us to buy some. 

The taste of the Lychee brought me back to my childhood when my family would travel cross country in the summers. 

It is crazy how much we associate specific tastes and smells with memories.

Day 13: A Sunday in the Twin Cities

Day 12: "Safe"

Sometimes the things that keep us safe are the things that hold us back the most

Day 11: Running

Something is coming.

I know it is...

What? I can not be sure

But I am running, 

searching, wondering, asking, wishing, dreaming, 

and running.

Day 10: The Power of Words

It is insane how much power there is in the words we choose to use

Yesterday I met the two extremes

The negative words in my head keep repeating drowning out anything else

Before going to bed I was told something that brought a much needed smile to my face

Why can't it be more like this?

Why is everyone so negative?

There is no need to be fake but being negative does not help.

I challenge you to tell 3 people something positive!
(Examples; "I love your hair!" "You are so beautiful!" *insert your own compliment here*)

The world would be a little sweeter if we came to know how much our words impact others

Day 9: Time for Change!

The time is here!

here it is!

I'm ready.

Day 7: Two Worlds

Waverly and Bethel! My two worlds.
After two weeks of being at home I ventured 3 hours north to St. Paul MN.
The transition between my two worlds is always some what rocky.

It is good to be back, I guess.

I am having to adapt faster than ever before
Stretched in new ways.
Pulled this way and that...
A strange storm that came out of nowhere
For a moment I stand in the middle, in the eye of the storm
everything is still, nothing moves
I stand watch and listen forgetting to breathe

the moment is gone launching me back into the storm

And when the wind stops blowing and the storm calms down,
Will I still be the same?
No.
Will I still be me?

Day 5: Two steps behind

And here we are again...
Almost 11:20pm and I can not come up with a good idea for my blog post!
One of the main reasons for this blog was trying to get past my Writer's Block...
I have been thinking all day for a great theme but alas I have nothing
so now this post has turned into my lack of an idea...
and an over use of the ellipsis...

maybe one day I will be caught up...

Day 4: How to Grow an Apple Tree

1) Eat an Apple:
           Be sure to eat the type of apple you wish your tree to be

            Ex. If you want a Red Delicious Apple Tree, then eat a Red Delicious apple
                   If you want a Granny Smith Apple Tree, then eat a Granny Smith Apple

2) Find any random container

3) Put some dirt in to the container

4) Place the seeds from the apple core in the dirt

5) Throw some dirt over the seeds

6) Water every once in a while

7) Forget to water the seeds

8) Lose hope and forget you're even trying to grow an apple tree

9) Go on with life

10) Randomly find your little apple tree thriving

11) Love gardening and say you have a 'green thumb'

Day 3: Filler

When there is nothing to say

A jumble of words can be used

Or place sporadically to ensure that

The space is not so hollow. 

What can be said when there is

nothing to say?

Sometimes, everything

Sometimes...

Day 2: All I Can Be is Me

All throughout my childhood I longed to be somebody else,
Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty...     See a pattern?
I wanted to be a Princess!
Live in a castle, wear beautiful dresses, marry a prince.

Whenever my siblings and I would watch a movie we would "call" being some one in the movie.
So for that whole movie we "were" them.  If that makes any sense at all, because it made perfect sense to us.

Sometimes even to this day we "call" who we are in the movie but it wasn't until recently when we were riding home from the movie Frozen that I let the juvenile words slip from my mouth,

"I wish I was her," referring to a princess in the movie

Where as my mother answered,"You can't be anyone but yourself."

It was like some one took a mirror and put it in front of my face,
reminding myself that I am here.
I am here, and I can not change the fact that I am me.

Of course I can dream, but I will dream for me

Not for Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel or Cinderella

but for me.

Because all I can be is me.

Day 1: Ready to be Me

2014, I am Ready!!!

 I have no idea what is coming I am ready to be unprepared.


New years resolutions?  Maybe not

But, this year


I will eat one apple every day

I will try soy milk

I will not gain my freshmen 15

I will perform my poetry again

I will adopt a kitten

I will be myself

I will be surprised

I will be spontaneous

Beautiful, hopeful, prayerful, me

This year I will be me. Every day.