Artistic Liberalism

I just wrote on the discussion board for my online class. I wrote about myself. Sometimes, summarizing yourself is a very difficult thing to do. What do you say? I'm the girl who used to have a crush on a boy... I'm the girl who doesn't like cowboys, but wants to work with them... I'm the girl who spends days feeling beautiful, but then worries about being ugly, and fat, and never-going-to-be-good-enough. I'm the girl who talks to God like He is right there, listening, and wonders if she is too causal in the things she tells Him... I'm the girl who KNOWS marriage is going to be difficult and taxing, a trial every day, refinement always being asked for, but wants it more than most anything else...

What I did write was that I am a bit complicated, and absolute truth. I wrote that I believe that I balance the country conservatism, simplicity, and tradition with artistic liberalism, free flow, and spontaneous self-discovery. I am that person. I am both things. I am what I want to be. I want to be artistic and liberal, tasting, trying, hearing new things, while being the conservative farmer who really only cares about family, the animals, and relations with Heavenly Father.

I took this photo up in the mountains. This flower is growing in the middle of a granite slab. There was no soil to be seen, only the lightest dusting of sand. If God showed this flower how to grow out of granite, then He will show me how to grow in this marble-hard world. I will form cracks where there was no give before. I will move mountains, because I am one. I have the world at my fingertips. Good thing all I want to do is live, learn, and love.