"We shall find peace.
We shall hear the angels,
we shall see the sky
sparkling with diamonds."
-Anton Chekhov

"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."
-Jack Kerouac

"This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings,
the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is."
-Countess Van Arnim

"You need not do anything
Remain sitting at your table and listen
Just wait
And you need not even wait
just become quiet and still and solitary
And the world will offer itself to you to
be unmasked
It has no choice
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
-Rainer Rilke

“I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.”
-Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

On Friday I went to Lexington with Sarah Bloom (Such a lovely person) to the scene of a fire that occurred at the town's oldest and beloved restaurants, The Southern Inn. It opened in 1799 and has become a major landmark in the town, making its demise that much more upsetting.
As we came to the scene we were permitted by the fire chiefs to look a bit inside so that we could film. We had to be hasty though as the firemen had a job to do and the media doesn't always stem the most pleasant feelings from people called to their job of duty in a crisis. However, they answered our questions and gave us an interview which was kind of them. As we talked to the owner, whose restaurant had been in his family from the start, I couldn't help but feel utter remorse as he choked up a little during his interview. To have a steady landmark in your life that has been the threshold of one's family and history taken away from you, must be emotionally vacating. But cheers to good news, as the owner does plan to re-open the Inn someday and believes the structural damage isn't beyond repair.
It is these stories when I am confronted with the importance of striking a balance between being a human being and following a journalistic duty. In my media ethics class I just finished, this theory is known as Aristotle's Golden Mean. The belief of striking a mean between two extremes. I just don't believe that one can be a successful or savvy journalistic without empathy and a touch of human kindness when covering stories and especially hard news.
On the way back from Lexington we jammed in the car to oldie classics as we made our way down from the winding roads of the mountains. Man I don't want summer to ever end.

Me and one of the reporters Lauren, who I mostly worked with during the summer. She is a true inspiration to me!

So one day when I was working with Lauren she allowed me to be the reporter for this story:

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Haha you can see my microphone in it, I was so nervous.

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Walter Burns: What were you when you came here five years ago - a little college girl from a school of journalism. I took a doll-faced hick...
Hildy Johnson: Well, you wouldn't take me if I hadn't been doll-faced.
Walter Burns: Well, why should I? I thought it would be a novelty to have a face around here a man could look at without shuddering.

This summer I've been interning at the television news affiliate, ABC 13 in Lynchburg. I decided to do this internship in hopes of learning more about the news business from the television realm and if its still something I want to do. So far, I can say that I truly love it, and now know more than ever that I want to be a news reporter. I was reluctant at first about whether this would be a career I wanted/could do. I couldn't seem to place myself in the same categories of other reporters, who go out in the field everyday with an aggression and intensity that I felt that I lacked. I have never been one to be very aggressive, mostly because of the negative connotations that go along with that characteristic, those being pushy, annoying, and self serving. However, since interning I've realized that aggression, in the right context, can be a very positive thing. To attain aggression towards something requires passion, and with that passion it can lead you to uncover corruption for the greater good or making one's mission to bring the world facts and news. Of course aggression to an extent. I above all will always be humane first and a journalist second. I do believe there is a mean that can be struck on the journalist spectrum between duty and human.

L.O.V.E.

"Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of
direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person."

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants.

But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything

that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so

you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important

person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

-Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love

"Just one thing,” she says, raising her head and looking me straight in the eye. “I want you to remember me. If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets."

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
-- Audrey Hepburn

“Alas, poor Romeo, we can't do diddly.
You'll go to penitentiary,
I'll be the laughing stock
of the Brownies.
But if your feelings for me are true,
you'll wait.”
-Beautiful girls

V-J Day in Times Square

On Sunday, June 20, the nurse in this infamous picture, Edith Shain died at 91. She has been remembered all throughout her life as being part of one of America's most iconic photos taken on V-J Day in Times Square; as the nurse kissed by the patriotic sailor. The photographer, Alfred Eisenstadt who has captured some of the greats like Marilyn Monroe, or the infamous "Migrant Mother" featured in Life magazine, said he was drawn to her and the sailor through the complimenting contrasting colors and the sweet and passionate nature of the two that summed of the true essence of patriotism that day. Lovely.

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say,'why not?' -Bernard Shaw

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find Yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."
-- Patanjali

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy,

the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.- C.S. Lewis

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the
world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman