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For any of you who have twitter, be sure to follow me @rawedout for updates to my blog and other silly thoughts that cross my mind. Wishing you all a Happy New Year full of health, peace, and happiness. Are you ready for 2012? Cause I sure am!

xo
- MF

Lost in the Discovery

Lost in the Discovery of What Shapes the Mind, Solo Exhibition at the MCAD Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. Check out Mike Perry's wonderful work - a bright show full of awesomeness.






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Meet Her

I'm a little intimidated of my future, part of me tells me I won't be able to handle her. That she has much planned for me - a family, children, obstacles, awkward left turns. Another part of me is excited to meet her. I hear she'll be very wise and bold, and have a silly sense of humor like my present and my past. I hear she has an ability to erase negativity, to accept love, and to push wise decisions. I also know for a fact she's going to be tough on me, which is a bit scary, but secretly makes me feel secure.

I see my future, and she is full of beauty. I know she's there with open arms, and I'm just about ready to meet her.

Hello, future...

- MF

2011

This year
I've experienced.
I've loved, I've lost.
I've been challenged
I've been proud, been hurt
I've cried, I've laughed
I've been naughty and nice
I've been angry, been calm
I've had nightmares, had dreams
I've fallen, found balance
I've discovered - lies, truth, people, places
Towers and beaches
Him, her
You, me

This year
I've learned
The most valuable and cherished moments,
Were the ones I turned from confusion to inspiration
From deep thoughts to deep breaths

I may have just, found myself, in 2011.

- MF

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.

Enjoy opening your gifts, and opening your hearts!

Lykke Li

These scars of mine make wounded rhymes
tonight I dream of times when you were mine
so I can keep it like a haunting heart

Sadness is a blessing
Sadness is a pearl
Sadness is my boyfriend
Oh, sadness I'm your girl

My Mother taught me to never give up.

I choose to let go,
Let go of any guilt I may feel
Let go of any regret I may have
Let go of any fear I may cling to

I choose to hold on,
Hold on to any love I may feel
Hold on to any faith I may need
Hold on to any strength I may discover

For today, tomorrow,
and every day,
forever.

Thank you Mom

- MF

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
~ Marcus Aurelius

You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant. It happened to me.

~ Life as a House

An Illiterate Girl

A wonderful post my friend Jay sent to me (thank you). Read it slowly, carefully, and maybe two or three times. Then sit there and think about it. Do it!!

...click to read

Steps of Dedication

Sometimes it takes a thousand of the same exact steps, to get you to your destination. You might feel like you’ve been going around in circles, and will get bored of taking the same steps over and over again, but eventually there will come a point when your destination begins to take steps towards you.

Destination recognizes dedication.

- MF

Because it's okay...

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad. Just like what my sister said when I had been in the hospital for a while. She said that she was really worried about going to college, and considering what I was going through, she felt really dumb about it. But I don’t know why she would feel dumb. I’d be worried, too. And really, I don’t think I have it any better or worse than she does. I don’t know. It’s just different. Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said. Because it’s okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.”

~ Stephen Chbosky

She said "hello mister, pleased to meet ya"
I wanna hold her, I wanna kiss her
She smelled of daisies, smelled of daisies
She drive me crazy, drive me crazy
Gonna take her for a ride on a big jet plane

Be my lover, my lady river
Can I take ya, take ya higher ...

Gliding

Walk in with confidence,
speak with passion
look with interest
smile with sincerity
and leave with result

When you trust your strength and growth, you begin to walk a path of certainty. And all your little doubts and hesitations fade away. All you are left with is this powerful energy full of desire and integrity. Your path becomes a rink, and you're gliding the rest of the way.

Choose and cruuuuise!
- MF

I stepped to the edge of the world,
stared down at the
noisy highways
and bright lights

blinked at the flash
and in an instant
you shot a picture of our fate

- MF

A Little Truth

"Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation."

~ Alan Cohen

Woody Allen

"It's not that I'm afraid to die,
I just don't want to be there when it happens."
~ Woody Allen

Rhythm

"Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey."
~ John O’Donohue

Dynamite

Melissa says it all.
link: My Adagio

Welcome, December

Just like snowflakes, we are all unique, and with patience and movement, we will fall delicately into the right places of life.

Bundle up, friends!

- MF