Thinking outside the box... and life

alternative parking

The one seat you can count on to be private and available

Multi-use bike lock

defrosting a window with hands

where's the handle?

Human muscles

how bike racks shouldn't be used

dropped some food and now there's a foot

how to crack an egg

Swan Beauties

Peacock

wonder if anyone ever collects white peacock feathers rather than the male ones?

3D cut out

My babies!

Compliments

Life!

What a word for all there is.

The sweet Earth and minerals,

The clever creatures living within

those powerful churning rivers.

Talks of a great energy above us, around us

With us from birth to death.

The energies following us, watching us,

Protecting us from the worst

or hurting us for the better

Mighty beings we don’t see,

Mysteries yet to be found for another thousand years,

And another and another.

Secrets within we didn't even know we don't.

Life!

What a word encompassing us.

The amazement all around,

The experiences we all feel,

The impossible ventures we all take.

So full and filled,

So independent and free.

Blue crystal oceans,

Deep enough for swimming stars to find a home.

Beautiful floating lights deep beneath us.

Such a simple word,

Life,

to compliment the death that awaits us all.

The Lone Beauty

Fathoms around,

Nowhere to turn

But yes! There was a way. To turn around.

Towards another abyss…

Not unpleasant, though some say.

Not unlikely to come

This way, I mean.

The loneliness befriends those who are willing.

It’s always been a part of me

No, apart from me.

He never stays for long.

I fade away,

Door to door.

They see me sometimes.

Don’t bother

No use finding me.

I hear them.

A young girl, elegant blue green dress

The colors once vibrant with life,

Now lost to the aging time.

Her skins fair with innocence,

Her hair free like

Like newly spun silk waving in airs of Earth.

I hear them.

They don’t say much

Because they don’t know much.

I wish I could say.

Wish I could tell.

No. Yell.

I wish I could yell.

It’s lonely here.

I turn around,

And greet a new Emptiness.

Calming War

The weathers of my heart collide

As my world spins around me.

Clouds erupt all around my home.

Dust sticks to the air, suffocating and blinding my ambition.

I’m lost in a world that was all my own.

A void now blankets the burning rage that followed me here.

The love that flourished once now gone.

The war zone that destroyed all now calm.

Only I remain standing.

But not for long.

Us

What happened to us after all that time?
I remember once before,
How great together we were.
But now it's lost but I don't know why?
It's like you've gone your way and I am lost in your dust
I'd rather you told me, I'd rather we had a fight.
I know now why they say
that you have the biggest fight with the ones you love.
I have and will always pour my heart out to you

I hate that you cold shoulder people,

I hate that you never confront your problems
and I hate that I would come running back to you the second you let me back in

I know what I should do, and it's the obvious choice.
I should let you go, I should move on, I should find another.
But I can't.
I know me
I know soon as that shoulder warms up,
I'll be by your side again.

Revisiting the Perils of College

Discriminate

Human nature is to blame for all our discrimination and selfish acts, not society. Someone once said, "We discriminate, because at a young age we were already taught to pick out differences." Our teacher taught us to pick out the blue box in a set of red and yellow balls. Or we chose the green triangle in a set of black diamonds. Then our early and innocent minds associated this exercise with society and picking out differences among people and races and soon, we learned to discriminate and even hate on those who are different. And this person said we needed to ignore that. Well, he was very convincing, I'll give him that. I even started to believe it. Until I thought more about it later at lunch. And it's not society teaching us to hate differences. It's not at all their fault. It's not even remotely close to a side effect of teachers teaching us to be observant of what's different and same. It's our human nature. It's us. It's that deeply rooted idea inside of us that leads us to want to be with people we are similar to, that nature that pulls us closer to those that are like us. That nature? Human nature. It's a survival mechanism. We stray from those that are different because we are afraid. We are afraid of differences because we don't know if they think like us, talk like us, if they are in any way like us. So instead of showing fear, back in the day, we strove to overcome it by being bigger. We strove for that "Eat or be Eaten" motto. We are afraid of the risks of associating with things different from us. So we turned that fear into anger and that anger to hate and that hate to... indescribable acts of inhumanity.

Well now maybe we have taken this a bit far and we have indeed strayed from what our instincts old us. We were inept back then. We didn't know better. But now, we DO know differences in appearances don't make for differences in the heart, mind and soul. We may disagree, but there are fundamentals we all share. Beyond just feeding and sleeping into our emotions intentions and thoughts. To say we need to stop hating and unteach ourselves to dislike difference is to say we need to go against our natural mechanisms. But we do need to stop the hate. We need to stop hating because we now understand that differences don't make us different, unknown and terrifying creatures. We do share 99% of our genes, so how much closer do you need to be to not be afraid?

Done

I don't care none! I'm completely done! What now, son!

I don't know what my future looks like, and it scares the hell out of me. And when I think about why I even do anything? Where I'm going? What I've done and How I act? It's all too grim. I keep busy so my mind cannot veer too far from this creek I've created for myself.

Cute diy CD card

So you have a CD. Not just any nice clean CD. Its used and cant be over written or edited. It one of those CDs. Yea. So what do? What do? Well, let me tell you what do for YOU!

Take the CD, some colored poster paper or thick paper, and tape! Or Glue. Or anything to connect the two. Now you have a 3D card just like those in stores. Plus this ones shiny and special effecty, just like in stores! So why give these power hungry stores money for their special paper when you can get the same thing for less than free?

Honestly, this was less than free for me. I used free paint samples, a sample CD of a college acapella group, and markers. It was fun to spend my break on, and I got a happy friend in the end! So it cost me none, but I got fun ( and friends, thats important too)!

You know it. Finals.

Don't care for fashion, you don't need a guy.

Don't care for luck, it's hard work that'll keep you alive.

Art's ok, but keep it at bay.

It's not the class or the teacher,

nor is it Life in your way,

It's YOU!

Your time, Your work, your investment 

is all that'll keep you afloat.

Old Poem I Wrote Last Semester

UMD fall 2013

Fall and winter

Colliding so

Here stands

The man of snow

Confronting all 

With a frozen pose

UMD winter 2014