[Committment]

People should really follow through when they make plans with someone. Thats all I have to say.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. -Kahlil Gibran

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. -Kenji Miyazawa

[Epiphany]

"There are no accidents." - Master Oogway

"Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart & learn to love the questions themselves. Do not seek for the answers because you are not yet ready to live them. Live the questions now & maybe someday, further down the road, you'll find the answers" -Letters to a Young Poet

These put my heart to rest. I have spent far too much time lately worrying about things that I am not ready to know the answers to, things that are out of my control. I need to enjoy the uncertainty and embrace the unknown- as cheesy and cliche as that sounds...

"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured."

[Apple Poem]

Girls are like apples on trees.

The best ones are at the top of the tree.

The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt.

Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy.

So the apples at the top think that something is wrong with them, when in reality they are amazing.

They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.

-Author Unknown

Gravity [Sara Bareilles]

Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.
No matter what I say or do I'll still feel you here 'til the moment I'm gone.

You hold me without touch.
You keep me without chains.
I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain

Set me free, leave me be. I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.

You loved me 'cause I'm fragile.
When I thought that I was strong.
But you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.

Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.
No matter what I say or do I'll still feel you here 'til the moment I'm gone.

You hold me without touch.
You keep me without chains.
I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.

Set me free, leave me be. I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.

You loved me 'cause I'm fragile.
When I thought that I was strong.
But you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.

Set me free, leave me be. I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.

I live here on my knees as I try to make you see that you're everything I think I need here on the ground.
But you're neither friend nor foe though I can't seem to let you go.
The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down
You're on to me, on to me, and all over...
Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.

I live here on my knees as I try to make you see that you're everything I think I need here on the ground.
But you're neither friend nor foe though I can't seem to let you go.
The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down
You're on to me, on to me, and all over...
Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.

[Meadowlark]

WHEN I WAS A GIRL l I HAD A FAVORITE STORY
OF THE MEADOWLARK WHO LIVED WHERE THE RIVERS WIND
HER VOICE COULD MATCH THE ANGELS' IN ITS GLORY
BUT SHE WAS BLIND, THE LARK WAS BLIND
AN OLD KING CAME AND TOOK HER TO HIS PALACE
WHERE THE WALLS WERE BURNISHED BRONZE AND GOLDEN BRAID
AND HE FED HER FRUIT AND NUTS FROM AN IVORY CHALICE
AND HE PRAYED:

"SING FOR ME, MY MEADOWLARK,
SING FOR ME OF THE SILVER MORNING,
SET ME FREE, MY MEADOWLARK,
AND I'LL BUY YOU A PRICELESS JEWEL
AND CLOTH OF BROCADE AND CREWEL
AND I'LL LOVE YOU FOR LIFE,
IF YOU WILL SING FOR ME."

THEN ONE DAY AS THE LARK SANG BY THE WATER
THE GOD OF THE SUN HEARD HER IN HIS FLIGHT
AND HER SINGING MOVED HIM SO
HE CAME AND BROUGHT HER THE GIFT OF SIGHT
HE GAVE HER SIGHT
AND SHE OPENED HER EYES TO THE SHIMMER AND THE SPLENDOR
OF THIS BEAUTIFUL, YOUNG GOD, SO PROUD AND STRONG
AND HE CALLED TO THE LARK IN A VOICE BOTH ROUGH AND TENDER
"COME ALONG.
FLY WITH ME, MY MEADOWLARK,
FLY WITH ME ON THE SILVER MORNING,
PAST THE SEA WHERE THE DOLPHINS BARK
WE WILL DANCE ON THE CORAL BEACHES,
MAKE A FEAST OF THE PLUMS AND PEACHES
JUST AS FAR AS YOUR VISION REACHES
FLY WITH ME."

BUT THE MEADOWLARK SAID NO
FOR THE OLD KING LOVED HER SO
SHE COULDN'T BEAR TO WOUND HIS PRIDE
SO THE SUN GOD FLEW AWAY
AND WHEN THE KING CAME DOWN THAT DAY
HE FOUND HIS MEADOWLARK HAD DIED
EVERY TIME I HEARD THAT PART I CRIED ...

AND NOW I STAND HERE STARRY-EYED AND STORMY
OH, JUST WHEN I THOUGHT MY HEART WAS FINALLY NUMB
A BEAUTIFUL, YOUNG MAN APPEARS BEFORE ME,
SINGING "COME, OH, WON'T YOU COME?"
AND WHAT CAN I DO IF FINALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME
THE ONE I'M BURNING FOR RETURNS THE GLOW?
IF LOVE HAS COME AT LAST IT'S PICKED THE WORST TIME
STILL I KNOW
I'VE GOT TO GO


FLY AWAY, MEADOWLARK
FLY AWAY IN THE SILVER MORNING,
IF I STAY, I'LL GROW TO CURSE THE DARK
SO IT'S OFF WHERE THE DAYS WON'T BIND ME
I KNOW I LEAVE WOUNDS BEHIND ME
BUT I WON'T LET TOMORROW FIND ME
BACK THIS WAY
BEFORE MY PAST ONCE AGAIN CAN BLIND ME
FLY AWAY ...
AND WE WON'T WAIT
TO SAY GOOD-BYE
MY BEAUTIFUL YOUNG MAN
AND I.

[Untitled]

Ice Cream :)

Sometimes girls just need ice cream. Its a strange and unexplained phenomenon.

Yesterday Amberly and I went on an adventure. We began at Maggie Moo's for

ice cream; s

he got red

velvet brownie bits

and I espresso w/cookie dough. Mmmm. Next we headed over to Target to get some treats to sneak into the movie via my huge purse. Amberly even let me look at the office supplies. Next it was over to the Cinemark for a movie; Eclipse. Please spare me of your opinions. I liked it. Hahaha.

Anyway. Here are a few quotes I came across this morning. Have a great day. :)

"Every man dies--not every man lives."

-William Wallace

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

-Lance Armstrong

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

-Albert Einstein

Graduation: An End & A Beginning

"Do not go where the path may lead, instead go where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I hope your dreams take you...to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, & to the most special places your heart has ever known." -Unknown

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”

So I'm new at this blogging thing, so if anyone has any suggestions or comments-please feel free. Haha.

So I started this to kinda sort through this new chapter in my life. I am newly graduated & am off to college in the fall (August 21 to be exact). There are so many new things coming my way, & I can't wait to be a part of it all, even though it kinda scares the crap out of me. Anyway, so for the time being I'm just working & playing with my friends while we're all in one place. Kara, Darren, & Spencer are going to BYU, Rachel-SUU, Amberly & Merrie-BYU-I, & I'm going to Westminster. Not to mention my awesome guy friends going on missions-- Spencer(Finland), Dallin, Darren, & Zach. I really am blessed to have such awesome friends. Love you guys!

--XOXO, Mel

One Day More [Matthew Morrison]

There are days we want, always to remember

& There are days we try to forget

& There are times, they tell me, when the load gets to heavy

But we haven't found one yet.

You are my life, my strength, my joy, my all.

What I ask is small...

Just let me love you one day more

& Then tomorrow night, when the stars shine bright

I know what I'll be wishing for; I want another, one day more.

That's all I'll ask you for.

People come and go, prospects will suprise us.

Then as fast- they'll all disappear.

Whatever tricks we fall for, we're immune to them all

For we have a life right here

As far as partners go, I'm yours although

What I bring is small...

I wanna love you one day more.

& Then tomorrow night, when the stars shine bright

I know what I'll be wishing for; I want another, one day more.

That's all I'll ask you for.

Dawn into sunset. Year after year.

Just let me love you one day more.

& Then tomorrow night when the stars shine bright

I know what I'll be wishing for-

I'll want another, & another, & another, & another, & another day, & another day, & another day, & another day.

How could I wish for more?

That's all I'll ask you for.