Here and Now

I am what you might call one that hopes. I hope for world peace, for releasing of those in the sex trade, and the empowerment of those whose home is on the streets. Single mothers, and men struggling with addictions... I hope for them to overcome. I hope for those in poverty, and those stricken with sickness. I hope for the beaten down and abused, the mistreated, the defeated. I hope for the lonely and the unsatisfied.



I am just one woman. I know that I cannot make all things right or make sense. I have tried with zeal to bring justice to a handful of causes. I have failed over and over.

I moved to Atlanta with the big idea of stopping child sex-traficking here. Moved to Portland to love on the homeless youth that fill the streets.



Humbly, I say this... It's not about the good I have done or the causes I have fought for- or an ambiguous idea I have for the world and the people in it I haven't met. I have realized that it's about loving in my immediate sphere of influence. It's about looking at my father, who has let me down time and time again, and saying I love you, I forgive you. It's about respecting my step-father's Jewish beliefs even though we don't always see eye to eye. Its about listening, really listening to my friends. It's about all those people that dismiss and walk by so easily everday, while I proudly sport my Toms shoes for a child I have never met.

i want to love, not just the people I don't know, but the ones I do. The ones that I know all the crap they have done, all their dreams, and all their talents...here and now.

really, it just ain't about me.