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I took waaaaaaaay better pictures then this today. But I just got home and I have to study for a chemistry test. wooooopa! soo much fun right?
Also, I'm pro now! HUGE thanks to SkySnapper! (Sorry I dont have time to make your name all clicky and cool looking, ill do that later)
Bye everyone! Study time. WOOOOOO!
P.S.-sooc. Now I'm leaving :)
P.S.S.-I'll upload more tomorrow :) Now I say bye.
Okay, last one from this shoot. I just really liked the colors and reflection.
Like it? Don't like it? Feedback appreciated.
So, today I find a flickr mail and find that *submerged* tagged me. Bummer, right?! Nah, it's a new style of tagging for me. No lame ass 10 facts that no one really cares about unless they're 14 and have a vagina...anyways...Here's the deal, take a selfie, and edit it 3 different ways, post it, and then tag away some suckers too. Kinda fun. I was lazy, didn't work too hard at it, but hey, that's me sometimes. It's a bright, beautiful, early spring day in the river valley, and my knee is almost too tore up to even walk today, so lazy is an okay way to be in my book at this moment. Who knows, maybe later I'll be motivated. Maybe someone(they know who they are) would wanna have a few beers with me tonight. I could totally stop by...Stranger things have happened, for sure.
Now, for my list of victims
TO THE TAGGING!
B4J1989-resurrected
SkySnapper
Laurlyle
EC Comics Fan
Just Bri
ƎƦɬƇẪ
savannah,forever
it's gerry(AKA geraldine)
Jman95
willdanger9112002
I don't know who else looked up when I did but WOW......... I felt blessed. It didn't last long and I was humbled to witness it. LOVE MY SKY!!! 💞💞💞
I got a formspring. Recent developments have caused me to wonder what people here on Flickr really think of me. Probably shouldn't even go there, but I gotta know. So tell me what you think anonymously. Good or bad, let me have it.
Just slide.
i love to do this, slide on the hardwood floor. sorry i didnt have much time yesterday because i was working on my portfolio for the art school.
Thanks Tony for the testimonial! It means so much to me, you don't even know.
Sooo, SkySnapper, Tony bought me a pro account!!@!@!! ^_^
I'm super excited and will probably start a 365 soon.
I am going to New Orleans for the next four days...so when I get back I will start on the project.
I love you guys :D
& this is a statue thing in my mom's garden.. it's kiiiind of creepy
I did a photo with this same title and purpose on my old stream back in April. Sadly, I have a reason to do another one. This time, it happened just a few miles away from me. I apologize for the length, but this is a critically important issue. Something must be done. Please read.
Fourteen year old Samantha Kelly had just started her freshman year of high school. Out of curiosity, youthful excitement, peer pressure, she had sex with a popular senior boy. That night she confessed the deed to her mother. Initially it seemed only an irresponsible, but consensual indiscretion. However, in Michigan, a 14 year old cannot legally consent to sex. It wasn't long before rape charges were filed against the young man. Samantha's mother paraded her on the local tv news. There she told the reporter that the boy had forced himself on her. Was she pressured to change her story? Regardless, now the whole community knew the intimate details of this teen's private life. Samantha would now face the scrutiny of her family, her neighbors, classmates, and the police.
The whole school was divided. Students wore t-shirts with the boy's picture on them proclaiming his innocence. There was name calling, harassing text messages and Facebook statuses, but it went beyond that to threats of violence and actual violence. Students threw mud at her, made sexual gestures, even hit her. All the while, the case against the young man was progressing. There was no stopping it now. Samantha would be subjected to more questioning, criticism, humiliation. She would be expected to explain the discrepancies in her story. Any adult would wither under such circumstances. To a 14 year old, it must have seemed like the end of the world. Tragically, it was.
Last week, Samantha was scheduled to testify in court. The evening before the hearing, she excused herself from the dinner table and went upstairs to her room. An hour later, her 12 year old brother found her dead. She had hung herself. Written in marker on the wall was her goodbye note - "do you love me now? I have always loved you". The next dat at the hearing, rape charges were dropped.
I want to run through the streets screaming at the top of my lungs. "Wake up people going on about your lives as if everything is fine. What kind of world do we live in? What are we doing to our young people!" I find myself wondering where I was when Samantha crafting the noose. What meaningless self-centered thing was I doing while she was dying? What was going through her mind in those final minutes? Did she have second thoughts, but it was too late? Did she suffer long? I can't even imagine. It is too terrible to even contemplate, but I can't get it out of my head. Some thoughts you just can't turn off.
I couldn't hold back my emotions at work the other day. A co-worker caught me crying at my station and asked what was wrong. I almost made up something, but decided to tell the truth. She looked at me like I was from another planet. Crying over a complete stranger? What is wrong with you? No! What is wrong with you that you can hear a story like that and just move on? How can it not affect you? How can you look at this world and not cry every day?
Samantha was buried today. This whole experience makes me want to live my life differently, to be a better human being. We've all got to move past this indifference for our fellow humans. He's black, she's Muslim, he's a republican, she's an immigrant, he's gay, she's fat. Just stop! We're all people. Let's look out for each other. Where was Samantha's support network? One person could have made all the difference.
I saw an ad for an art exhibit - "Princess Diana, celebrating her life". I guess that's nice, but who will celebrate the life of Samantha Kelly, Phoebe Prince, Tyler Clementi, Asher Brown and countless other teens who committed suicide after enduring endless cruelty? We can all be part of the solution. Start today by remembering those lost. Then start looking out for those who need help. It is not too late for them. I will challenge myself to be a better person. Will you? So I ask you again, who will you save today?
I have tagged some of the people who continually inspire me. You are all amazing. You are my heroes. Please make a commitment to make a difference in someone's life. Forgive me if I have missed anyone.