Rest In Peace

My black lab beauty, Pepper.
December 31, 1993 - October 17, 2009.

Such an unfortunate event to happen while visiting my home for the weekend. She was 2 months shy of being 16 years of age, so she was quite old. Luckily she lived a long, happy, wonderful life. I do miss her a lot though. She has been in my life since I was 2 years old.  How can I come home to no Pepper?  I can't even think about it without tearing up a little. Rest in peace little one.

Helianthus annuus

Kate's flowers

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I am adrift in my own head and I need an urge to stand back onto my own two feet again.  Great metaphor, right? Joke. But in all seriousness, I don't know of a better way to put it.  I can't even describe what I'm trying to say.  I guess it's just apparent that I'm going through another struggle in life right now.  Oh well, it's college.  I'm sure it happens a lot.  Anyway, this beautiful photograph was shot by my lovely friend, Sha Collins. I thought it was considerable fitting.

“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.”

- Ayn Rand

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