Let's kick it

My two most recent purchases:

Laugh:


Now I shall return to watching Harry Potter with my sister and brother. Oh blimey

This is me not thinking about it

It = visa complications/missing tucson/being a drama queen

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2. Remembering Wednesday night...

3. Learning new music with the old ebony and ivory... Adele style

 

Me found home

Arizona.

I have a love/hate relationship with Southwest Airlines. I hate that you have to pick your seat. This whole awkward business of standing where your group number is in line and avoiding people because of the middle seat just is awkward with a tad of awkwardness on the side. And the staff/attendants try to be funny, but they're not. Buuuuuuut I love the prices, the free checked bag, and the friendly people... Anyway, I avoided all the awkward sideways glances toward the A50 number printed on my boarding pass by focusing on The Kite Runner's sister book, A Thousand Splendid Suns. The book focuses on two female characters growing up in Afghanistan in the midst of war and violence. I like it... I like heroic female stories. Like Zaynab from the time of the Babis... she's the persian version of Mulan :P. And Tahirih, who gave her life for the emancipation of women. Hearing these stories puts my life into a humble perspective. They motivate me, as a young woman, to do something with my life for humanity, so that the trials and tribulations that these heroines suffered through haven't been in vain. If I were a song writer (hopefully someday...), I'd write an entire album inspired by these heroines. Love it.

PS... Incase I haven't mentioned it enough... I love home life. Seriously, the family room couch is the best napping spot in the world. The green couch in the Staff Lounge at Bosch comes in at a close 2nd.

Happy medium?

Also, look who visited me on skype!!

I hope the shot of my sister here paints a clear picture of the reason why she's called "the Layli Monster." Bahahahahahahh I taught her well.

The Layli Monster

Today was a hard day for many reasons blahblahblah... The reasons don't really matter... what matters is how I approached the day. Instead of moping around, I tried to look for and focus on the things I am grateful for. Even those little-purple-mini-orchid-flower-looking-things on the side of the lodge this afternoon made my day. I appreciated the beauty of that purple plant and I was grateful to have that moment to appreciate the plant... to live one more day here, even if it was a rough day. Sometimes my positivity makes me sick, UGH can't I ever just be in a bad mood and not feel guilty for it?



Just a side note... my little sister started high school today. I love her.

Sleeping In

"Wherefore, O my loving friends! Consort with all the peoples, kindreds and religions of the world with the utmost truthfulness, uprightness, faithfulness, kindliness, good-will and friendliness, that all the world of being may be filled with the holy ecstasy of the grace of Bahá, that ignorance, enmity, hate and rancor may vanish from the world and the darkness of estrangement amidst the peoples and kindreds of the world may give way to the Light of Unity. Should other peoples and nations be unfaithful to you show your fidelity unto them, should they be unjust toward you show justice towards them, should they keep aloof from you attract them to yourselves, should they show their enmity be friendly towards them, should they poison your lives, sweeten their souls, should they inflict a wound upon you, be a salve to their sores. Such are the attributes of the sincere! Such are the attributes of the truthful." - ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

http://news.bahai.org/human-rights/iran/iran-update/

Sad day.