Just Have Hope

I have decided to try something new... I will be adding a post each month of a short list of songs that relate to my posts. Feel free to listen to them and tell me what you think. I am really big on music and I regularly listen to music daily.  Music means a lot to me. Music expresses things that words cannot. It brings us together and heals us. It causes us to feel things, powerfully. Music inspires us. It even reminds us of things.  I love music and I am grateful for it, especially the effect it has on my life.   What does music mean to you? The songs for my posts can be found in two places: -Bottom of post. (Note: Not all posts will have a song.) -Monthly playlist. (Note: This will be posted on the last day of each month.) Important Notice: Instead of including long links on my posts all links will be the name of the song, (text should be blue.)

For the longest time, I have not liked reading poems. They never make any sense to me and I have a hard time enjoying them. Today I still don't like reading poems. However, I enjoy writing them.  Why do I like writing them but not reading them you ask? Well, probably because I know exactly what I meant by certain lines and I understand it completely. 😝  But... I like how poems are another form of writing something. They can express things differently and in unique ways. I think poems can empower us to do something or make us feel a certain way. I think they have a very big effect on what we feel.  I have written a few poems in middle school. All of them were assignments by teachers but I enjoyed writing them nevertheless. Fair warning: I'm not the best at rhyming. 😅 I prefer poems that just flow freely and don't always rhyme, however, they are still fun to read.  "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." ~Robert Frost Do ...

    I have always had a great love for quotes. I enjoy collecting them and I have many of them around my room. They have always been meaningful to me and sometimes I will read a quote and become struck by what it says.  Quotes inspire us to be better and to keep trying. They can even change the way we look at our lives. I have a great appreciation for quotes and I truly believe they can help uplift us.        Every month I like to find a quote and write it on the whiteboard in my room. The past six months have been harder for me and I have found that sometimes the quote written on my board seemed like it was written there for me in that moment. I encourage you to find quotes you like and put them where you can see them. Maybe they can help you when you are going through something.  As I wrote this post I started thinking about the many purposes of quotes. I have already mentioned that quotes can help uplift us. But they can also be ...