amy rocks, okay?

But instead, I'll leave you with a photo of this awesome t-shirt. Happy Sunday!

"Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark."

How stinking rad is this little number?! Anyone want to go for a run?! :) Go Brooks!

All the truly great persons I have ever met are characterized by what I would call “radical humility.” They are deeply convinced that they are drawing from another source; they are instruments. Their genius is not their own; it is borrowed. We are moons, not suns, except in our ability to pass on the light. Our life is not our own, yet, at some level, enlightened people know that their life has been given to them as a sacred trust. They live in gratitude and confidence, and they try to let the flow continue through them. They know that “love is repaid by love alone,” as Thérèse of Lisieux said.

Adam's Mom has signed us up for these daily email meditations since the beginning of the year, and while I don't do the greatest job at reading them EVERY day, I always make time to catch up and reflect on the teachings. They come from an enlightened Franciscan (my favorite Saint, as it is Jeanne's, Abo's Mom) and focus on mysticism and alternate spiritual unity with God and an enlightened self. It's FANTASTIC. It's this mix of eastern religions that I have been fondly reading about and working to incorporate them into my self, with a foundation of Christianity/Catholicism that we have all been brought up on! I love it. Today in particular.  Yesterday was rough. There is so much goodness in my life happening all at once, and yet, so much pain working its way through me as well. The two are battling it out for territory right now. It's as though the pain had made its nest within me, and I was slowly working on chipping it away, but now, with all this ...