Tag: love

  • Love done right

    Love done right can change the world. -Mandy Ricks

  • The ones that love us

    The ones that love us never really leave us. -Betty

  • Always together

    Wherever your baby is after passing know that you’re there with them because that’s what they would want. -Betty

  • Shine on baby

    Shine on baby shine on. Betty

  • Love and lust

    The difference between love and lust is heart. Love soothes the heart and lust has no heart. – Mandy Ricks

  • Desire

    Desire comes in limitless forms. Never stop looking. – Mandy Ricks

  • This is me

    Me at around four or five years old. My sassy was already showing.

    It’s taken years and a lot of crap for me to understand;

    I am deep, serious, complicated and messy.

    I am professional, focused, and driven.

    My ability to persevere sometimes doesn’t know when to quit.

    Sometimes I can be a bitch and sarcastic as hell.

    I can swear like a trucker.

    And;

    If it’s political then I’m often “incorrect,” sometimes on principle.

    I’ve been called abrasive and brilliant.

    I hate change because most of my life it equated loss.

    I don’t usually act my age but part of me is wise beyond my years.

    I like to be right but I’m a graceful loser.

    I think empty beauty is ugly.

    My respect is reserved for the truth.

    But also;

    I can love like no other.

    I am moved, sometimes to tears, by simple things.

    I’m obsessed with equality and continually overwhelmed by the barriers blocking it.

    The phrase, “socially acceptable,” makes me cringe.

    I care too much, often about the wrong things or wrong people.

    I sometimes laugh too hard and too loud at the silliest of things.

    And;

    I usually put everyone before myself.

    I have no patience for fluff but endless time for meaning.

    My insides don’t match my put-together outsides.

    And;

    I am consistently inconsistent.

    I crave routine but fail miserably at creating and living by it.

    I am a perpetual student yet feel a deep sadness that I won’t have enough time in my life to learn more.

    Tech fascinates and inspires me but also infuriates me in the ways it is abused.

    I love spring, autumn, and winter but hate the summer.

    I let outside people and events affect me too much.

    Then;

    Once in awhile, the surface cracks and all the pain and trauma comes pouring out like a lava flow. And at those times I’m ugly, raw, and too real for most people to handle.

    But;

    Above all else, at last, after all this time, I’m me, just me. And that’s okay, it’s better than okay.

  • When we least expect it

    Often it’s when we least expect it the most beautiful things happen. – Mandy Ricks

  • Imagine

    Imagine; your greatest love might be yet to come. – Mandy Ricks

  • Words

    Words

    A lack of words can break a heart just as easily as the wrong words. – Mandy Ricks

  • Love and monsters

    Love and monsters

    All love shines in the sunlight but sometimes it creates monsters that hide in the dark. – Mandy Ricks

  • Take my hand

    Take my hand

    “Take my hand and make my imagination come true.” – Mandy Ricks