I just had to share this!

I'll be honest, this post is going to be short and fairly silly. I was watching the Amazing Race today and for one of their challenges in Copenhagen they had to memorize a short verse on the statue of Hans Christian Anderson and then perform it. As soon as I read what it said I knew I just HAD to do something with it! So why not blog about it?! I did say I was going to post about poetry etc...so I'm going to put it up here for everyone to enjoy. Everytime I say it in my head it gives me that weird fluttery feeling in my chest! So without futher ado, here is the verse:

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float

To gain all while you give

To roam the roads of lands remote:

To travel is to live.

-Hans Christian Anderson

I just find it so powerful! I think maybe because I'm obsessed with travelling and want to do so much of it, even though I can't just yet. Too many other bills and things to do at the moment but as soon as I'm done school I'm jetting off on an adventure of some kind and this verse makes me want to go all the more!! Alrighty, well that was it really, I just really wanted to share that.

Goodnight!

Holly

This is long overdue!

I can't believe how long it's been since I last posted! I am by far the worst blogger ever, but life just gets completely in the way! I don't remember where I last left off exactly, so let's just start with last summer? I broke up with the BF and have been single ever since, and while it was ridiculously rough at first I am now 100% back to myself and I'm so happy about that! I'm still studying to become a teacher and have done my first practicum (in April) which lasted three weeks. Three glorious, ridiculously busy, crazy weeks! But it was absolutely amazing and I finally feel like I'm doing the right thing with my life. It was a little bit touch and go for a while there. I was never quite sure if I really wanted to be a teacher, if I had done it for the right reasons, but now I know I have.


So I've been thinking about this whole blogging thing and realized that only talking about random things in my life doesn't make for very interesting reading so I think I'm going to alter my style of blogging a little bit and talk about some other stuff too. Things like poetry, yoga, my disaterous experiments in the kitchen and other things of that ilk. So hopefully someone can find some use out of this silly little blog of mine. SO to start things off, here is my current favourite poem:

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm

I've heard it in the chillest land

And on the strangest sea

Yet, never, in extremity

It asked a crumb of me.



                                                     -Emily Dickinson

I've thought quite seriously about having the first stanza of this poem as a tattoo. I think it is such a joyful poem. And I feel like it applies directly to my life. I still haven't decided yet but when I do I'll be sure to mention it. I came across this poem in a book that was given to me by a good friend of mine called The Pocket Daring Book for Girls by Andrea Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz. It is by far one of the most amazing books I have come across in my life! Where was this when I was 15 and needed some guidance and inspiration! It really is a wonderful book however so if you ever come across it, read it! It's a super quick read and it'll make you smile, definitely more than once!

Cheers!!
Holly