macarons

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i <3 nj

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i do

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things i'm thankful for

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la patrona dunny

so excited about this addition to my dunny collection.

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everyday i'm mustaching...

MOvember! No shave November!

please donate to help save prostates everywhere. http://mosista.co/jaclope

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dream catcher

smaller dream catcher for the office.

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hello savannah

welcome to the family and to the world.

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no peeking

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corner office-ish views

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lady

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LOVE

TELLING GHOSTS TO GO.

OCT. 31, 2011 AT 11:59PM

to write love on her arms.

What does it mean when something is haunted? What exactly is a ghost?

Is it when something from the past refuses to leave? Is it when something dies but doesn't go?

It's easy to talk about haunted places. A haunted house. A haunted building. We smile at those stories. We get excited. There is no stigma, no shame. But what about haunted people? Isn't it true that, as people, our lives can become haunted things as well? The past can haunt the present. The past can steal the future.

Isn't that what most of this is about? Something painful in our past? Something breaks or something dies and in living with the pain, we begin to live with ghosts. And  by our choices, we either ask the ghosts to leave or we help them make a home.

If we can talk about haunted buildings, then we should be able to talk about haunted people. We should be able to put a hand up and say, "I'm not doing well" or "I need some help" or "Can we talk?"

Maybe we begin to ask the ghosts to leave when we begin to ask some other folks to join us in our haunted places. In the broken parts of stories. Our messes and our questions. To meet us, to know us, to help, to care, to listen.

Maybe we begin to help our friends become unhaunted when we let them know we're not afraid of their pain. When we ask to really know them. When we ask to see inside. When we do our part to go beyond the distance and the smile, deeper to "who are you?" and "how are you?" and "are you okay?"

i have been a haunted house. i have had things die but stay and i didn't know how to make them leave. And there were certainly times i didn't want them to leave because they were beautiful. They were no longer real but they were beautiful. They were bridges to brighter days. i thought they were my dreams.

But reality is the best place to live. Reality is where healing happens. In the honest light and by the voices of our friends.

We all have our past. We all have our pain. We will all know ghosts from time to time. But if our life is like a building, then we should open our doors to let some people see inside. And into our darkest places - into those rooms that hold our fears and dreams - we will begin to walk together. Friends with hope like candles, telling ghosts to go.

by jamie tworkowski


i love this blog. i love this organization. love, love, love this blog entry.

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11.11.11

"let's remember why we go together so well."

happy veteran's day!

to all the men and women who have served and continue to serve our country, THANK YOU, from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU.

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dinner @ diner

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note to a stranger

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let's create jobs

i think the boy at starbucks wanted to hug me for buying this.

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city views

newark from the 14th floor.

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7am

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MOvember!

no shave november?

since i myself am incapable of growing my very own mustache, i have decided that as an alternative i will sport something with a mustache (be it a necklace, ring, earrings, t-shirt, band-aid!) for the entire month of MOvember! mostly because i love all things mustache, but also because i'm always up to help out a great cause.

visit my mospace to learn more about MOVEMBER and to donate to a good cause. 

help a mo sista out: go here!

thanks in advance for your support.

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