My goal was to go to a candle lighting ceremony today, but I was unable to make that work. Instead, we lit some candles and sat back to watch a movie. Lovely. I really tried not to look creepy in this picture. It’s actually difficult to take a picture with a candle and not look creepy.

Happy Ugly Christmas Sweater Day! We’ve also got a beautiful poinsettia displayed in our apartment, but I didn’t get a photo of it. It’s actually really lovely to have a plant in the apartment. I’m moving to a new place pretty soon, and this is something I may try to make a regular thing. Looking

In The Sound of Music, Maria talks about, “my mountains.” I understand what she means. I love mountains, and I can’t stop looking at them when I’m back home, and not just any mountains will do. This is the winter view of my mountains from the street outside my family’s house in Utah. With those mountains

“Education went from being a right to being a crime. But when my world suddenly changed, my priorities changed too. I had two options, one was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.