RESOLUTE!!!!

a) go on a trip.
b) talk to strangers.
c) leave your job.
d) confess your love.
e) find a hobby.
f) make music.
g) make art.
h) make friends.
i) try harder.
j) burn the bridges that need to be burnt.
k) explore everything.
l) own your life.
m) make a tangible You Are Remarkable (book, ‘zine’, collection of sorts).
n) never feel guilty.
o) travel everywhere.
p) never [...]

overpass in arizona

exploration #1

RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE SITTING
write ten things about where you are sitting right now that you hadn’t noticed when you sat down. use your senses. do it quickly. do not censor. okay, begin. (p.29)
-HOW TO BE AN EXPLORER OF THE WORLD
written by: keri smith

i am wonderful.

think of 10 things you’re really good at.
or even that you’re really okay at.
“I AM GREAT AT ____________!”
make a list!
use a thesaurus & replace the word “great” with a synonym.
discover you’re extraordinary.
ex: i am mind-boggling at loving you.

love & hope in arizona.

never stop.

to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best – night and day – to make you like everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight – and never stop fighting.
-e.e. cummings

i like.

arizona.

i love you bones & all.

look at your body. right now. piece by piece. deconstruct it in your mind. with each part, think of one thing you love about it.

“i love my knee cap because of the scar i got playing in the school yard when i was nine.”
“i love my elbow because i used to think the rough skin [...]

gold.

“our lives are mere flashes of light in an infinitely empty universe. in 12 years of education the most important lesson i have learned is that what we see as “normal” living is truly a travesty of our potential. in a society so governed by superficiality, appearances, and petty economics, dreams are more real than [...]

love letter XVI (goodbye).

dear dom.
i’ve been searching for words these past few days but when i open my mouth all that comes out are animal noises. cries of sadness, anger, everything. i don’t know how to be happy & right now i’m not strong enough to pretend. i remember the first time i saw you. walking down main street [...]

pssst.

as you may notice there are some new pages choices.
here is what they are…
home: the home page, packed full of goodness.
mission: the mission statement of You Are Remarkable
found: the post cards/notes/pictures we have received are all here, full size.
love letters to & from:anonymous love letters you have sent in.
quotations: all of the quotes we have on [...]

fall in love.

Falling in love is the ultimate act of revolution, of resistance to today’s tedious, socially restrictive, culturally constrictive, humanly meaningless world.
Love transforms the world. Where the lover formerly felt boredom, he now feels passion. Where she once was complacent, she now is excited and compelled to self-asserting action. The world which once seemed empty and [...]