Abby Sams

"Speak up even if your voice shakes." "Stand up for what you believe in even if you're standing alone." ----------------------           I don't know where my mind has been this past week. Between the terrorist attacks, earthquakes, college applications and doctors appointments my mind is fried. When you fill out application you have to put in your high school info, and for those of you who don't know: I've been to two high schools.         My first high school was a public high school. They taught evolution and I do not believe in evolution. There is no hard actual evidence for human evolution. I let the teacher know, third day of freshman year I started a debate with my biology teacher. I was thoroughly convinced she would hate me for the rest of the year. We didn't actually go into evolution until a bit later, but again I shared my evidence with her in front of the class. She asked me to stay after...

Why are wastelands so beautiful to us? Why do we find dystopian settings so compelling and post apocalyptic life to be an interesting fantasy? ----------------------------          We are drawn to these things because the idea of something new coming out of the dust. Like Adam brought to life from the dirt. The same reasoning behind the fact that flowers growing through the asphalt looks so appealing. It's nature going against the odds, simply because it needs to grow somewhere. The wild flowers do not care about how inhabitable its setting should be, if it can grow, it will.                Humans have their own wastelands, their own asphalt, inside of them. We use them as reasons for people not to love us. However, to someone in the world your wasteland is beautiful. Remember that you have survived 100% of your worst days and kept going against whatever od...

Hey y'all,        I'm going to go ahead and apologize for the lack of posts even though I keep saying I'm going to post and never do. I'm still getting in the swing of things as far as having an actual blog.        ---------------------------------         Last night I couldn't sleep so I did what I always do and stared at the ceiling for a half hour before jumping on my phone (not proud of that) and surfing the internet. I found a website called "Great Big Story" through a YouTube human I watch and looked into what they do. Instantly I wanted to share the story of Karanse and everything over there so I shot them an email and fingers crossed they decide to help me produce a film over the summer in Karanse. If not, I'm going to do it anyway. So to all of you strangers out there: let me tell you about a school called PUNCHMI and how it changed an entire village....   ...