“At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really expect it. It’s like one day you realize that they fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it’s not so important happy every after, just that it’s happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you, and once in a while people may even take your breath away.” -Meredith
“A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you’re wrong? What if you’re making mistake you can’t undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can’t pretend we haven’t been told. We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying.” -Meredith
“The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free. Whether good or bad, at least they’re out in the open, like it or not. And once your secrets are out in the open, you don’t have to hide behind them anymore. The problem with secrets is even when you think you’re in control, you’re not.” -Meredith
“Communication. It’s the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking, the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need.” -Meredith
“Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’re thankful for the things we’ll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.” -Meredith
“Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It’s not on the calendar, it’t not a birthday, it’s not a new year; it’s an event–big or small. Something that changes us, ideally it gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world, letting go of old habits, old memories. What’s important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning, but it’s also important to remember amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.” -Meredith
“I’ve heard that it’s possible to grow up, I’ve just never met anyone who’s actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don’t go our way. We whisper secrets with our best friend, in the dark. We look for comfort where we can find it. And we hope against all logic, against all experience, like children, we never give up hope.” –Meredith
Adrian says
I know this is an odd comment, but I’m preparing for a switch to WordPress and it’s been really helpful to me to poke around your blog a bit. I was having trouble understanding the difference between pages, categories and tags and trying to figure out how to link my posts up. I think the way you’ve got yours set up works really well and I’m going to use your site as an example for my designer of how I want to set mine up. So, thanks for the help, even though you didn’t have to do anything!
Brittany says
This is not an odd comment at all! I actually JUST switched to WordPress. I’ve been using a different platform and host. When I started to become more active in the blogging community, I found that I loved the sites that were run using WordPress. I’ve been prepping this site for about 3 weeks and was finally satisfied with it enough to switch my domain. Unfortunately I still have 21 days left until I can officially switch my domain name (it redirects to this site, but the URL looks funky once you arrive). But I’m very happy with WordPress and the variety that it offers. I am using the Genesis framework and I love it. There are lots of different options for child themes once who install the Genesis framework and I think it’s totally worth the investment. Kristie at BlogAmbitions offers some really great WordPress tutorials and info that helped get me started in the whole transition process. Best of luck to you!