thoughts, insights and rambles from a girl on a mission to change the world
Let’s stop talking about size, and start talking about action. Don’t get me wrong, the size of the turnout we saw at the Women’s Marches across the WORLD this weekend was absolutely amazing. Being in the heart of it in DC was goose bump-inducing. I had never seen my city so full of love, and […]
I woke up numb today. Not sure of how to handle the pain. How? I kept asking myself. I got dressed, got on the train, and went to work. And on my way there I began to feel. There was this eeriness present. I tried to read the faces of those around me, searching for […]
And her heart beat for the world She felt the pain of each struggling soul Her hands ached to heal every undeserved wound She loved and loved and loved and at times she felt that was all she had to give, never feeling like it was enough She lived outside of herself With a stinging […]
I’m an introvert. I never wanted to be, and I think that’s why it’s taken me so long to really accept that part of myself. Only recently have I been able to accept this trait for what it is. Growing up, I wanted to be loud. I wanted to be that person that walked into […]
One moment we seem to be wandering through life, lost and confused. And then, all of a sudden, life gets really, really good. You find yourself riding the metro home in the dark on a week night, buzzed off a pitcher of margaritas, smiling ear to ear about your day. You stumble upon a new […]
There’s something about that moment when you find yourself way outside of your comfort zone. To the point where your comfort zone is no longer even in sight. When you forget what that comfort zone even is. We are so often convinced by this scary world that our comfort zone is where we are meant […]
So much time in life is spent waiting. Waiting for the magical day we dream up in our imaginations. Waiting for our dreams to come true. Waiting for our achievements to materialize, for our hard work to pay off. We wait and we wait, and we get frustrated when that day does not come exactly when […]
I woke up on Friday morning with the heaviest heart I’ve felt in a long, long time. I wanted to throw my phone out the window. It was the messenger delivering the bad news and I didn’t know what to feel or how to act I just knew I was angry and sad and terrifyingly confused and […]
Imagine this: What if we all stopped complaining and started doing? What if we realized our ability to have an impact, to fix the problems of the world, instead of idly sitting by as we watch the world as we know it crumble to pieces? Each day I confront a slew of opinionated, oftentimes angry […]
My heart is so heavy. It hit me today. Driving to the grocery store early this morning, the tears began to flow. Two hours later, they haven’t really stopped. How, how can a world filled with so much love and beauty be countered by so much anger and hatred? We cannot continue to live like […]
Evan Petschke 