love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everybody that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take-off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, re-examine all you have been told in any school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul...and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body." ~ Walt Whitman
Ryan and I recently hosted a Ugly Holiday Sweater Party at our apartment and it WAS AWESOME! We transformed our bookshelf and an entire corner of the room into a winter themed photo booth filled with holiday props (and a couple of bananas) to spice up the photos. The sweaters were glorious and the company was splendid. Thanks to all who attended!
