478 DAYS OF AWESOME

an urban gypsy's commitment to dreaming big dreams, loving really hard and making her own damn rules

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15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus.  Kelvin became the youngest person in history to be invited to the “Visiting Practitioner’s Program” at MIT. THNKR had exclusive access to Kelvin and his life-changing journey - experiencing the US for the first time, exploring incredible opportunities, contending with homesickness, and mapping out his future.

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HES MY FUTURE

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460 | 4

Never before has such a small number had such a great significance.

Today marks 4 years since my mom passed

and though cancer sucks major balls, I'm thankful for it

Today for the first time in a long time

I'm thankful.

For Having been loved by a power house

For Having huge shoes to fill

For having my mothers legs

For treating today like a normal day

For having a sister that looks just like her

For her capacity to love

and for the air in my lungs

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Is it weird i think I look best blurry?

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471 | Taste the rainbow

Found out Skittles are finally VEGAN

I ate two whole packs to make up for lost time...

I pooed 5 times yesterday

Maybe Gelatin was the poo supressor in Skittles this whole time!

I wonder...

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476 | CONNECTED

Today I burst in on my sister in the bathroom wanting to share with her what goes on in my head

I was buzzing and wherring  Her body language said silence and the voice on the other end OF the phone screamed help. And I stood still watching her awestruck, at her power at her command of the universe

my mind and body were silenced and, for what felt like the first time, I heard her.

Heard the universe and through the silence came crooning, low and disjointed at first then smooth and steady, the universe spoke the words of one of my favorite country songs. 

in that instant I got that there is someone on this block maybe in this building that I've lived in my entire life, feeling alone...

that appreciates a banjo just as much as I do.

That relates with the world as green pastures and sunny days. I got that I'm not alone, and if I just listen the universe will show up for me. Vibrant and bold and to the soundtrack of Tim McGraw

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472 | LOUD AS A MOTHER F@#&*R

Today I choose to speak into the silence, For men who await an audience die with many things left unsaid. I will be heard

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I'm blue

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477 | Earning your Stripes

Today There was this moment unlike any other I have ever experienced where a man told me he loved me in a way that rattled me to the core. A way in which I was moved beyond comprehension and he didn't even say those three little words.

I admire this man in ways I do very few, share of myself in the most authentic manner, I'm extremely protective of him and want nothing more than to guard his heart from the hardships of this world. I love him wholly and truly with no regard for the sanity of it all.

He has no clue but he gave me hope again his existence is as if the man upstairs wanted to reassure me that miracles do exist

At 24 it's the first time a man, the blood of my blood has loved me and been simultaneously worth my love. 

For the first time I understand why people wage wars and forge blindly into battle for Countrymen, for brothers

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478 | Starting

my 25th birthday is almost upon me so I'm creating my bucket list, things to do by 26. When my mom passed away four years ago from cancer I began walking around with a nifty little momento, better known as my morality. 

A bit morbid maybe but true none the less so yesterday i decided if I'm gona have my mid life crisis during a time where i can still get away with short shorts and teal hair then i'm gonna have to put in some real effort to push the envelope. Somewhere after the fourth straight replay of Tim McGraw's Live like you were dying, it hit me.

Bucket lists are lame and well if 25 is my midlife crisis how awesome would it be to live everyday like a super star for the next 25 years? what kinda awesomely censored engraving would grace my tombstone?!?Awesome like that takes practice, a year 

I figure a project this, well, awesome needs to be broken down into manageable attainable goals that end in a big bang... like a party. ooo a birthday party!

hey there 26, you're looking cuter by the minute!sat down and got to 'mathing' it out and and it turns out there are 478 days till i turn 26.

thats 478 days of being stellar,

478 days of looking my best self,

478 days to learn a secret of the universe in every second

478 days of eating

478 days of being a best friend

478 days of being a sister

478 days to love

478 days of listening

478 of living awesomely, one day at a time

here i'm chalenging myself to pursue awesome with no strings atatched and milk the awesome out of even the most stubborn mule of a day...

so today, day 1 I've mastered the art of starting

i'm STOKED