I wake and ...

I wake up hoping I'll have the will to study Japanese.

I wake up hoping the sun is out and I am ready to let it warm me inside and out.

I wake up wanting to arm every girl and women with a shield of strength and independence. Hold her and say you must be careful and protect yourself, love who you find inside, not who you feel you have to act like on the outside. Educate yourself! Question everything!

I wake up wishing there was a warm body next to me to snuggle up against.

I wake up hoping I am in a new place full of acceptance and possibility, that will make my heart swell and burst with beauty and improvement of life all around me.

I wake up wishing I could go for miles and miles, that I could walk to this place where I realize how little and unimportant my sadness and worries are.

I wake up wishing to feeling rested and calm and happy to be here, excited to be around the people that are in my life, to feed off their energy and motivation and create a bubbly collective progressive movement of our own.